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Hello, Appreciate the help of anyone on this group - had some plastering done, they didn’t do the corners incredibly straight and have long fled. Seems small to get someone else in so would like to have a go myself. It looks like they have put the metal strip thing and then plastered a few...

Genuine question needing help with please. I had a recent renovation, majority of the walls were plastered (rather messily in my view) time for decorating but the condition of the walls might need skimming before painting - decorator saying they don’t do this, plasterer saying he was only...

I have just bought soudal PU foam remover for cured foam to remove green foam from my painted timer window. I’m pretty sure when I googled it it said it was safe to use on painted wood windows without removing the paint however now that I have the item I’m not so sure that this is the case...

Hello, I am in the process of choosing a wood floor - this will be ground floor level, underneath there is a basement (with tv etc) that requires sound proofing, so acoustic underlay is required… when I read about solid wood parquet it says requires glueing. Does anyone know if underlay and...

Hello This is a really stupid question probably but when you don’t know you don’t know… I’ve bought a Samsung gas hob (N64D3010AS) that didn’t come with a plug, apparently it is supposed to be hard wired (this isn’t an option in my set up) and the manufacturer says 220-240V~50-60Hz and a very...

Very inexperienced person stupidly decided to replacer her very archaic sink for an ikea one… coming unstuck on the final hurdle… the previous waste pipe for the sink water fitted directly into the waste set up - the Ikea one in another spot, they have given me all the bits but can’t seem to...

Bit of a gross one but we are renovating a bathroom, the house is old, looks like lots of water had been causing havoc spilling round the edges of the bath for some time, there was viable mildew spots between tile grouting but we have since ripped out bath, chipped off all old tiles and found...

I am looking for some help please. I need to raise my basement ceiling (and in doing so, raise the floor above, connected to that) I have been told the best way to do so is to build a frame around the walls around 50cm in all walls, then...