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i think the pockmarks you mean are the two screw holes at each end I've never heard of etching primer before now, looking at a cheap option i found on amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/HYCOTE-XUK433-Hycote-Primer-400ml/dp/B004SNDADO This stuff specifically specifies NON-ferrous metals, is that...

I have here, a metal handrail from my bathroom. The paint had peeled off in places and it had gotten rusty over several years, but it still seems solid I've taken it down, and spent half an hour running the detail sander over it, gotten most of the rust off, does this seem good enough? I think...

some of it has come off from my scraping but some of it also had come off over time due to the damp yes i would have left it in place otherwise, but since it had started coming off i figured i should get rid of it all unfortunately this is proving VERY DIFFICULT, the damn paper doesnt want to...

The wall behind my toilet appears to be either plasterboard, or wood with plaster over it. That is the main part of the wall, which was revealed in a few areas. This is what i want to strip it back to, its thick and sturdy But over the top of THAT is some kind of layer of brown wallpaper, and...

i'm not worried about a guarantee, i'm worried about people getting hurt. Its silly to chase a comment like that so doggedly, one death would be too much, one injury would be too much. I want to make my house safe, and i know screws can pull out of bricks at the right angle

I think i'd ideally like to find, or make, a grab bar that connects to the wall like this, with arms that spread out from the contact point to put screws in that spread load over a wide area i cant seem to find anything like this, they all concentrate them in little circles

its all well and good saying that until it comes away in the hand, and someone slips and cracks their head open. People have died from this. Many, many people. No, i'm not going to trust that this kind of thing will just work, without fully understanding it and knowing its capabilities. That...

It sounds like you're saying i should just hope they dont get pulled at the exact wrong angle, i guess it is relatively uncommon, but something being pulled on could go all kinds of ways RE: Multiple screws in the same brick, that is a valid concern, which makes me wonder why commercial bars...

Hi all, i'm planning on fitting some grab bars in my bathroom, around the shower and toilet. That is, fixed handles designed to be strong enough to bear the weight of a person, so they can pull themselves up. This is a Safety thing, people could get hurt if they aren't properly fixed. I have a...

Hello all, i did recently paint a windowframe, which is made of plastic. I knew that paint would never stick to smooth shiny plastic, so i went and got some special primer for it This stuff is a thick grey paste, and i know from my warhammer days, it smells exactly like the Plastic Cement i...

ive been thinking about this method all day, i want to do it! i dont have saw horses though, nor a budget to buy them, not sure if i have anything that could take the weight of a door on two screws would wheelie bins do the job perhaps?

Its worth noting that aside from the parts ive recently repainted, most of the paintwork in my house hasn't been touched for 20+ years, it is all dried out and flaking off The problem i kept running into before i started using the belt sander, is that where paint has flaked off, there is a very...

why all these coats? I've never done such a thing before, i just use multiple coats of my final color as long as the surface is clean and smooth ( but not too smooth) underneath, this hasn't caused any problems. What is there to gain with your approach ?

it never ocurred to me that i could take a door off, but it makes sense if i can take it off though i guess i could take it outside and use the belt sander there how do i take a door off the hinges? would i be best just removing the hinges from the doorframe? they're attached with four screws each

Hello all! I am planning to repaint an interior door in my house which is badly in need of it. But this door has a previous coat of paint, in a glossy magnolia shade which has a very smooth surface (on the parts where it hasnt flaked off) And i know from experience, that this surface will not...

Also, why are all of these moisture resistant paints so dull? Here's the closest i can find to the colour i want this colour is #304965, the saturation is only 52%, they're all like this. Its as if all of these paints got a pint of dark grey mixed in. I want a blue that is like this, but...

I see, i'm looking into that: I used the paint picker on their site, Location: Bathroom, Finish: Matt, and blue shades, i found this which seems decent https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/products/dulux-paint-mixing-matt/cccId_1915121?size=2.5L But it doesn't actually seem to be a "bathroom paint", no...

I've also noticed that there are these "washable" paints which come in matt https://www.amazon.co.uk/Johnstones-389570-Washable-Matt-Blue/dp/B07NYSNX21?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&th=1 What is the difference between a paint that is washable (presumably with...

Hi all,i'm planning to paint my bathroom soon. I have recently done my kitchen using the Forest Stroll colour from this range https://www.amazon.co.uk/Johnstones-389464-Bathroom-Paint-Brilliant/dp/B09X5F2PSW I'm pretty happy with the results, it feels thick and durable, it is standing up well...

i'm not insisting any such thing, But johnd made a lot of assertions about vinyl, and encouraged inaction Either he doesn't know vinyl, or he doesn't know my kitchen floor. The latter requires a far smaller leap of logic i don't know what it is. but i do know that chemicals exist which remove...