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Oh I should probably add very unlikely to be moisture in the wall, there's no plumbing anywhere near it and it's not rained in weeks

I was putting the second coat of white paint on my walls today and immediately after painting a small patch of the wall went all bubbly: I prepped the walls properly by washing and sanding (admittedly I didn't do that between coats) and bizarrely the rest of the same wall looks absolutely...

I recently used some pressure treated wood to build a raised bed and stupidly didn't realise one of the stamps was facing outwards until it was far too late. Looking around the internet there is all kinds of advice out there about what to do to remove it, but most assumes that the wood in...

Presumably the crack will reappear pretty quickly in this case though?

HSE guidance here for drilling into artex with asbestos in it: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/guidance/a26.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiQjKXlirP8AhWpgVwKHey-BdkQFnoECCMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0oqkZTvuK4p4CJ9WXmX39m Obviously you are doing the reverse of drilling, but...

Prepping my spare room for painting this weekend and I'm wondering how to deal with this crack (two pictures of same crack below). I suspect but do not know that it's where two plasterboards meet (stud wall) - for a random crack elsewhere on a wall I would normally gouge out a small v shape and...

Hahaha I am such an idiot - i have been turning it clockwise from below. Already living up to my username.

I'm trying to re-pressurise my boiler, having successfully done it in the past. I've inserted the white key thing and set it to lock - however when I try and turn the nut next to it anticlockwise it just won't budge? I don't really understand why - any ideas? It does seem to turn clockwise, but...