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Hi all, Pic below. Much of the skirting in my house is like this. There is a flat board stuck to the wall and this sits on top, in most cases its pinned to the board below. I would like to buy some to replace the top section in one room, but I cannot find anything similar online. Doesn't have...

Thanks for all the replies folks. I'm not going to spray anything on it. I would have to go out and buy something and if I was going to do that I would be as well to just buy a new plant and put it in another part of the garden. I will try feeding it as I need to feed a few other plants in the...

Looks similar, maybe a bit worse on the top.

No worries. That's not me. I would have ignored the patches but for the fact that it's been three years now and every year the leaves eventually die. I didn't cut anything off the first year or the second. I removed one leaf when I saw the patches again this year to see if I could stop it...

Its possible, but as per my earlier posts the same thing has happened the last two years and the leaves then stalks have eventually died. I haven't been feeding them before, but there isn't really any competition close to them, and in the same area there are chives which are thriving. Maybe I...

Plenty of sunlight where they are. In previous years the leaves have died. I am now second guessing whether it is the same issue as previous years, maybe I should just leave it and see if the same thing happens again.

Hi Stephen, I'm not sending leaves randomly to landfill. I put a couple of leaves in the regular bin rather than the green bin last year in case it was a disease, I didn't want to be sending it to someone else. This is not an over reaction to a few blotches this year, they have spread and the...

Thanks. That's easy enough to do so worth a try.

Thanks both. I've been removing the affected leaves and putting in the regular bin, but it keeps coming back. Nothing would have dripped on it, and as it reappears each year I am presuming its a fungus type thing. From the Rhubarb pests and diseases link, provided by RandomGrinch, I agree it...

Hi, Would anyone be able to advise me what these patches are on Rhubarb leaves and if there is a way to treat it? Bought the plant about 2 years ago in a local garden centre, and the discolouration on the leaves became apparent shortly after planting. The leaves eventually shrivelled away, and...

Thanks for the recommendation. I already did the edges, as I was expecting at that time to fit a runner, although they do need another coat. To be honest, all I used was the same water based satin that I had been using for the woodwork and metal railings, partly so it would match and its what...

Thanks for this. Will check it out. I had originally been looking at Bostik Laybond, and this sounds similar, and is a similar price. I wouldn't need to take out anywhere near 10-15mm variation, the steps are much flatter than that, maybe a few mm variation at most. Its not actually...

It wasn't so much opinions about how it looks that I was looking for, more for advice/thoughts on the technicalities of fitting it/safety etc. Obviously my wife likes the idea and how it would look or I wouldn't have got as far as considering taking on all this extra work. Her opinion counts...

Not perfectly flat, but a lot flatter than the 200 year old upstairs floor that I have just laid it over. I had presumed that the floor adhesive is a little like tile adhesive and would take out the slight unevenness, but I have never used it before so I could be way off here. If I had to do...

It might look like that, but they are not. If you think about, in order for a stair to turn the treads need to be narrower on the inside. This results in the need for a diagonal cut at the start of the next riser, which would obviously be wider. You then need a diagonal cut at the next riser...

At first I would have thought the same, but a standard stitched carpet runner doesn't work on a curved staircase, because when it goes around the bends it needs to be wider in places. Stone substrate also complicates the securing of the runner a little. This is why I contacted carpet fitters...

Back again on this. Put my focus on finishing off the wood flooring in the upstairs rooms to avoid having to think about the stairs. My wife in the meantime has been phoning around for carpet fitters, but almost none of them are keen when you say its a carpet on stairs, and then when you tell...

This is the sort of thing that I thought might exist, but hard to know if the 7mm would be loose in the lock. Think you are right that it might be less hassle to get a new lock, as per my previous post I think its the lock not the handle that is the issue.

I found below online at https://www.willowandstone.co.uk/blogs/how-to-guides/understanding-spindles Is there a standard spindle size? Yes. The 'standard' thickness of a spindle is 7.6mm. Most UK latch manufacturers produce latch openings at 8mm to accommodate this. However, we know that there...

Yes, but in this case the difference appears to be big enough to cause play in the handle.