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Thank you for your reply Zampa I dont think I would be capable of replacing the wood. Its not just the skirting its internal wooden panelled shutters in a bay window and panels under the window plus curved pillar type thingies and an Edinburgh press I dont have any carpentry/joinery...

crj, thanks for your reply. The existing paint is very flat and sheen free. The walls I've stripped look pretty good to me, so for my own purposes I'd be happy to paint without papering and then when it comes to selling it I'd probably want to give it a new coat of paint and if I think it...

OJ,thanks, well yes it is in the sense that if I cared alot one way or the other, but all I really want is to make the whole thing look consistent and presentable. So what I'm really asking is If I take on stripping off all the paint am I taking on a huge amount of unnecessary work? versus...

I've just started stripping off the truely awful looking wallpaper I inherited in my new flat. I want to then paint the walls. I just want plain colour, no replacement wallpaper. I also want the flexibility of changing colours, especially when it comes time to sell My initial thought was...

I've just moved into a 1890s built flat. The previous owner or one before that started to renovate/redecorate but left lots of jobs half done. One was the woodwork. All the panelled doors were stripped back to the bare wood and then left unfinished so they now have some not so lovely...

Thank you both, JohnD, you are so right, it was just wishful thinking on my part I suppose, hoping someone would say, yes this is a great idea

I have just moved to my new flat - a big thank you to all those who helped me with my decorating questions in my old house - it sold and I'm ready to start again (sigh) There is a lot to do, but by far the most pressing is the living room wallpaper -its old vinyl covered in what looks like...

Thid_Eye, Thanks for the info and advice, just as well its cooled off again, the heat goes on for the next 3 days. Lindsay

I did use masking tape and this helped, did not think to rotate by hand though, good tip Oh and I would never get this agin, it marks very easily It looks good, but doesnt seem very practical in a kitchen

Thanks Third-Eye, I want to put the house on the market as soon as possible, ie as soon as I've finished decorating, so I'm in a bit of a quandry, but ach weel. I've also got some crome shelves I want to put up, they dont have any equivalent warning, do you think they are safe to put up?

In case anyone has the same question. I tried a masonary drill bit, just dented the surface. SoI bought a tile drill bit and that did the trick

Its water-based emulsion

I just bought some stainless steel fixtures to put up in my newly painted bathroom, but the box says dont put up on newly painted walls as the there can be a chemical reaction that causes discoloration, but it doesnt say how long to wait. Does anyone know? I painted the bathroom with...

Thanks John, that makes sense, someone advised me to do it this way, cant remember why though, maybe because I could wipe off any emulsion drips more easily than I could the oil-based Satinwood

Sorry, this is such a basic question. I'm doing my first big painiting project, and I have a basic question about paint drying times. The time given on the tin is the time before you can do a second coat, is this the same time I should wait before painting next to the paint so if I've...

I've finally got my kitchen painted (yeh), and now I'm putting up a splashback on the wall behind the dish rack so I can fix a cutlery holder and cup rack (both stainless steel from Ikea) to the wall. The splashback is an Imperativ panel from Ikea. It's listed as being made of Tempered...

Sorry Third_Eye, didn't mean to ignore your last question after all the help you had given me. There is no sign of damp around the skirting boards (phew) Thank you again for all your help

Thanks Third_Eye, the old water marks are on the living room ceiling and are from a radiator in the room above leaking the hall wall with the dulux silk on it appeared like water had leaked down it, the wallpaper was very old and in a very bad way before it was taken off so its hard to...

Okay Leyland Vinyl Matt on the ceiling (all ceilings?) it is then The house is brick build, with a layer of grey stuff between the plaster and the brick, its porous and crumbles It was built 1948 or 1952

Third_Eye, Thanks again 1. I thought Leyland was supposed to be poor quality cheapo paint and not a good choice (I'm very new to this I know nothing, so I'm probably just wrong) 6. I could go measure, but its a typical small hall of a small semi The front door opens onto the a space...