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There are some steps outside the front of my basement flat, leading up to street level. See attached photo. They get quite slippery when the weather is rainy. I suspect it's just that they're quite old and perhaps the raised zig zag type profile (don't know what its proper name is) is a bit worn...

Sorted - https://www.mightonproducts.com/brush-preinserted-into-flat-carrier-5-5mm-1 - thank you. They sent me a free sample in the post and it's spot on. Just placed an order for the full amount that I need. Thanks for the advice.

Thank you. Useful. I'm going to email them in a minute with the photos and see what they would recommend.

I'm overhauling my windows - filling, sanding, painting, etc. They're single glazed wooden sash units. Where the two sashes meet there are what look like draught excluder strips - lengths of plastic about 7mm wide with brushing attached (see photos). They fit into horizontal grooves in the...

Nothing like that here unfortunately. There's a slightly bigger bay window on the house next door, and that has a proper surround on it and a little gutter coming out of the side. Result: no water damage! Need to get someone to come and have a look at ours and advise I think.

Yes, on further inspection there is a downpipe inside the attic space! Where it goes to from there is a mystery...but it all seems to be working ok anyway. I think the main problem here seems in fact to be the little flat "roofs" on top of the two bay windows (circled red in the photo). Would...

Whoops...twice I talked about water running down the side of the building when I meant to say down the front of the building!

Are we getting our wires crossed...our house is the wide one shown in Capture2.PNG and the other house with the downpipe is the narrower one shown in Capture.PNG (I wanted to swap the order of the pictures around to show ours first but I couldn't do it)

Thank you for this - some interesting information here. So I think I need to go back up there next weekend and see if I work out where the drainage from the trough is (and where it goes from there because there's no visible downpipe). That's a mystery to me, although I didn't actually walk out...

Do you mean where it looks a bit wet in the middle? I’ve just noticed a gap at the other end - is that relevant here, do you think? (another photo attached) Thank you

I’m trying to get to grips with a water damage problem on one side of a 4 storey late Victorian house in London. There’s a flat area - looks like a trough - in front of the sloping roof, so presumably when it rains, all the water goes into there. But from there, how does it drain? There’s no...

Thanks. Well...hmmm... You're right about the water based paint - look great freshly painted, but the bit of the fridge door (left unvarnished) was very grubby after just a couple of weeks. After doing a bit of research I've bought some foam brushes, in the hope of getting a more even coverage...

Tempted to have a little go with the mini roller now but I've done a bottle and a half of red wine so it's probably best left until tomorrow!

Thoroughly shaken and stirred! (I think)

Thanks Ken. The instructions on the can talk about brushing rather than rollering (is "rollering" a word?). But anyway...yes I could quite easily try inside one of the doors (ie out of sight) with a roller tomorrow and see how it works. Inside and outside are both painted exactly the same so it...

Ken - thanks - I used a brush. Do you think a roller would be better? (eg one of those 4" foam mini rollers perhaps? I have a few of those at the back of my cupboard)

Hello forum, I recently painted all the doors and drawers in my kitchen (they were tatty old MDF things so they look a lot better now). Painted with Dulux Satinwood paint, which looks fine and won't yellow, but - based on previous experience - not the most durable finish. It marks quite easily...

Thank you. I'll get some of that & give it a try. Alan

Hello forum, I've been tidying up my bathroom recently, including using a grout reviver to brighten up the old grout inbetween the tiles (bathroom tiled & grouted c. 2001). It has worked well on the walls, but not so well on the tiled floor. The grout doesn't seem to "take" the reviver stuff...

Fixed on...bit of 50mm x 50mm uPVC corner trim, cut to size. Now maybe some silicone around the edges. Not bad! Not perfect but I'm ok with it (pending full replacement of bathroom suite when £££ allows). Thanks for the tip.