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Not sure if this is the right category but I'm redecorating a room where there is some kind of "skirting" which isn't actual skirting board. On one wall it's a kind of plastery consistency attached to lath... On one wall it looks almost as if the "skirting" is just part of the wall. What is...

I want to fix this bit of wall but it's going to be hard to get behind the banister. The banister is pretty horrible and will probably be getting replaced eventually but the wall is more of a priority. Is there a neat way to temporarily dismantle the banister to work on the wall or would it be...

The roller on the right attaches to an extendable pole to reach further, but it doesn't have a frame for the sleeves to go on. I tried getting the frame off the one on the left but it's held on by something. Is there a way to get these things off and secure them onto another roller handle? If...

I have been provided with a corner sink which needs to fit onto a corner unit carcase which has a long beam in the middle. It looks like I will have to cut across the entire width of the right hand rail panel. It seems like this would be likely to affect the structural strength of the carcase...

While trying to fit kitchen units I noticed that the wall is not completely vertical. It's leaning back and losing about 2.5mm for every 100mm up, which is fairly slight but means across the height of a cabinet I'm not flush at the top by about 2cm, which is really annoying. I've seen people get...

My washing machine is about a metre away from the sink drain and I would have to route pipes around the back of (and also cut through) cabinets in order for it to reach the sink trap. It feels like it would make more sense if I just cut a hole in the external wall behind the WM and have it drain...

Whenever I've been faced with a deep gap or a hole, or exposed brickwork from crumbled plaster I've generally used either expanding foam/mortar/bonding coat to fill up to about the level of the wall and then used a light filler to level with the rest of the wall. I'd previously been under the...

I have removed nearly all of the old tiles from my kitchen but there are a few shards clinging to the bottom of the external door (uPVC). As far as I can tell the tiles go all the way under the threshold to where the outer uPVC frame meets the threshold. If I cut all the grouting off from where...

The plaster was coming away on this wall so I've stripped it all away. I now want to attach plasterboard but at the corner where the two walls meet the stud is behind the level of the right hand wall. When I come to try to secure the plasterboard, I don't know how I'm going to secure the edges...

I'm doing up a place where there has clearly been some crumbling plaster on brick and it looks like the previous owner has tried to patch it up with a combination of a cut of plasterboard and some of that wall repair gauze, however it's still crumbling and the patch clearly was not up to the...

So I have something like this and currently there is no sink connected so the top part is open. Until I fit the new sink I want to be able to continue to use the dishwasher but I imagine there is potential of some waste coming out through the top. The diameter of the thread inside the connector...

I'm living in a house with a cellar which currently doesn't have any air bricks. I want to install some but I have no idea where the cellar wall meets the outside world. Using a masonry drill, I started drilling a hole about two bricks down from the ceiling of my cellar and have got about 30cm...