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Thanks for the replies everyone. In light of what's been said we're thinking we'll risk it. The alternative is to leave the yellowing paper as it is, which isn't very appealing. We would love to have it over-boarded and skimmed, but we've got a baby who will very soon need to move into that...

Hi One of our bedrooms has a ceiling covered in textured wallpaper. We can't afford to do anything with this but would like to freshen it up, so are planning to put a new coat of white paint on it. I've never painted a wallpapered ceiling before, and wondered if it could cause any problems. Is...

Hi, thanks for your reply. I think the adhesive residue that's now left on the wall is probably PVA glue rather than wallpaper paste, as it's quite stringy and bobbly, and comes off in stretchy little lumps when pulled. Do you think sugar soap would work on this? Never used it before.

Hi I removed some woodchip wallpaper from the bedroom wall of my 1960s housem only to be greeted by a layer of polystyrene underneath. The polystyrene has also now been scraped off, but there is still some adhesive residue left on the wall (bare plaster). Does anyone have any ideas of how to...

My 1960s house has old uPVC bay windows that I'd like to replace. The main issue is that the survey I had done when buying the house contains the following paragraph: "The various lintels appear finished in brick, with no obvious indication of formal lintel support now required under Part L...

Hi The main bedroom of my 1960s house has a ceiling that's covered in painted woodchip. That alone would be bad enough, but there are also cracks along the plasterboard joints that are so bad they have come through the woodchip. My goal is to end up with a smooth, un-cracked, un-woodchipped...

Yeah that's good advice, and we are hoping to get a plumber in to assess things as soon as we've got the keys. I was just looking to get a general idea of what's do-able really so I know which baths to be looking at (if we're restricted to 1665 or 1600 baths then that limits things a bit!).

Hi folks My boyfriend and I are about to buy our first house, and are hoping to put in a new bathroom straight after moving in (there's currently just a wet room). So in researching baths we came across Carronite ones, which I'd got my heart set on. But on visiting a local shop we learnt we...