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HAHA I agree withyou that the weather is wetter but it's certainly not warmer. We are just wondering now because after recently painting the outside of the bungalow we noticed thet there was a gap about 3/4 inch wide in the ?soffet? above the window that this crack is on the inside of, if you...

Thank-you for the advice and we have put the bonding in this afternoon but it was messy work triyng to get it into the crack. How long will it take before we can paint it and put the filler on top? We did have the roof tiled about ten years ago after the old slates started leaking and the...

Thans for confirming that Thedec - we will try that then unless you have a different option. I think I may have got the pattens muddled up because ours is not circular but straight sections about a foot wide and long running in different directions all over the cieling. We have managed to...

Thank-you for answering so swiftly Madder. When you say bonding, do you mean the stuff like plaster or is it some sort of filler. Sorry if it's an obvious answer but thats the only thing my husband knows of called bonding and we want to use the right stuff so that it will hopefully last abit...

Hello again all, We have now decided to do the spare room and its the last job left for a few years at least. It is just a simple and straight forwad square room that we are repapering so should have no trouble there, but before we do that we need to sort a persistent crack in the cieling where...

Well I'm sorry for causing such a dispute but wwe managed to get the woodwork finished today after all the rain that did come on the weekend. I have to say that the sandpaper we used did work fine and there are no scratches to speak of that we can see, so thank-you to those who said it was...

They are hardly what you would call smooth in th first place so we are not worried about a perfect finish just as long as it sticks to the old paint. My husband does'nt fancy another hours round trip to the shop 'JUST FOR SANDPAPER!' as he not so politely put it. Maggie

Thank-you I think the rain is supposed to hold off for today but looking at the clouds in the distance i'm not so certain. I think we will make a start on sanding but we only have No.240 sandpaper is that ok? (we always used it before) and then if the rain comes we can leave it intil tomorrow...

We've already bought the green one coat gloss and it's dulux - sort of like emerald green - which is the colour we had before we changed it a few years ago and everyone loved. We dont really want anything to shiny anyway. Is it still allright to do it the same way you have said with this paint...

Well we managed to get all the paintinng on the walls done this week. We started by using some thick plastic sheeting that we kept from our new bed last year. Then we tried the sheets tucked into the windows which was much easier so thats the way we did them in the end and there was'nt ant to...

OK we will get one if we need it but my husband says sharp blades can scratch the glass and is worried it might damage it because it is pilkington thermal glass. Perhaps I should have mentioned that before. Maggie

WOW that was quick thank-you. I would like to try the paper but because 4 of the windows are nearly 10foot wide and the others are all at least 6foot I think it might take lots of it and a long time. My husbannd seems to think you mean the plastic for dampproofing because we've tried those thin...

After getting some good advice for another problem I hope I can get more for something else. We are going to paint the outside of our bungalow again, this weekend if the weather stays fine and it is covered with rough pebble dashing. We have done it several times before but always seem to get...

HAHA no I'm not that Maggie T but I'm not far off her age and dont think I'm to old to paper just yet and we've been doing all our own decoratting for over fifty years. This is the first time any paper has fallen down so we probably mixed the paste wrong because the new piece is fine now except...

Hello again. I'm pleased to report that the new paper is up and still stuck but the pattern is slighty out of line for the last 2foot or so even though the numbers were the same on the roll. It does'nt notice unless you look hard but can you tell me why that has happened please. I would also...

Well thats typical. We tried to do the cieling earlier but couldnt get the squares to match so I was going to ask for more help until I read the other comments. I wish i'd checked sooner. It ripped a bit too so my husband has just gone to b+q for another roll. We were lucky the rubbish was still...

Hello, this is my first question but i've had lots of advice from reading here before. I got in from work today and saw nearly a full strip of wallpaper hanging from the cieling and it was only stuck to the edge by the coving but had come right off the plastering.The rest of the cieling is...