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Old paint on old plasterboard ceiling. Whilst doing some patch repairs around some hairline cracks, the original paint has peeled off revealing clean plaster. There’s several areas where you can feel the difference between the fraction of a millimetre of unpainted and painted ceiling. Will...

How hard is it to install a new porch? A simple roof pitched that overhangs the front door approx 3m wide, 1.5m out from the door. We have an existing flat roof 2m by 1.2m, supported by two posts. The posts aren't ideal. If not DIY, would a roofing company be best or a builder, or someone else?

So if it is thin, do you cut next to the wall or along the door?

There's all sorts of useful info on laying wood floors and fitting around architraves, going through door ways etc, but not when you have a doorway that will have a different surface on the other side. I'll be laying planks 90 degrees to the original floor boards. Am I best off starting at the...

If so is it any good? I'm considering using it over existing felt roofing and like the idea that I could spend hundreds and do it myself, rather than thousands for someone else to do it!

Here's the shed. The plan is to have a single overhead led light, a single socket inside, and a single socket outside (as per pictures). We had a full rewire last year and the electricians have given us a 32A Isolator in the fusebox which goes directly to the black box on the outside wall of...

There is a frame along the top of the walls and across the roof. Fix with what - adhesive, then screw in to the battens?

I have a metal shed (single skin) so there's not enough 'meat' to screw anything in to it like a light switch or socket. Also to route the wiring through the shed, will I need conduit if I'm using armoured cable? What would be best to keep the wiring in place are there any adhesive clips or...

I'm installing a new wood floor and in the near future we'll be having new carpets fitted in the room outside (by a professional). I'm thinking of leaving the wood floor to carpet threshold for them. Or should I do this myself? Ideally want a stainless (long lasting one) that allows for an...

How can I ensure the first row of planks for a new wood floor is as close to perfectly straight as I can? The skirting board 'wavers' a bit. It looks straight and has a couple of 'bulges' that stick out (curving out to around 8mm to the rest of the skirting). I have packers that I can adjust...

Has anyone installed solid wood flooring with this? I just wondered if you only apply adhesive to the pre cut outs in the mats or do you need any additional bead of adhesive next to the wall /skirting boards, as well as between new runs of the mat? The instructions seem. little vague to me.

Basically am going over floorboards and locating creaks - then screwing in floorboard screws along the joist line (as seen from nail holes) - fixing the creaks, but the countersunk head isn't going all the way in to the wood - it sticks up by a mm or so. Will this prove an issue laying a new...

I have a floor to ceiling hairline crack that after a new skim reopened a few months after. It was gouged out and tried some toupret fill flex. Didn’t paint it and it appeared to be okay for a few months. Painted it and it shows through a different texture, highlights it more than the hairline...

Painting up to the silicone bead in our window reveal looks pretty bad. Obviously the paint won't stick to it so wondered how people make a good job of painting in a window reveal? The silicone comes out between 0.5 and 1.5cm around the rather large window into the plastered reveal.

No it was masked off, then painted. 30 mins ish later, tape removed. Carefully.

We have one colour on one wall, and a different colour on the other. So masked the 'dry' wall (from 4 days ago) - did a test with green and yellow frog tape on to the dry painted wall. Painted down both corners of the unpainted walls. Peeled the masking tape off, the newly painted line was...

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Are there any effective masking tapes for a textured vinyl floor. I want to apply a neat silicone bead between skirting and the floor and using frog tape leaves a bobbly edge. The floor fitter used a tape when he applied some, but he’s no longer contactable!

The only option to pump is they have a second lorry (to pump) at £400-600. We’d also struggle to accommodate 2 lorrys. There ‘used’ to be all in one lorrys, which I was hoping to find.

I have dug and levelled MOT type 1 ready for concrete. 1.2 cubic metres are needed. I stupidly assumed I could get a concrete lorry to turn up, run a hose approx 25m away into the shuttering and pour. My now deceased father did this 15 years ago, quite easily - yellow pages, they turned up a...