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Hi. We are planning on panelling the lower half of our hallway walls as well as a couple of other walls, the panelling will be a mixture of primed MDF strips and Pine mouldings attached to the wall. I would like to use one type of paint for the panelling, including the skirting, architraves...

My parents have recently moved house, their boiler looks fairly new and was recently serviced. It's not a combi. They are only able to get the hot water to come on by first switching the heating on. They are then able to switch the heating off and the hot water remains on until the switch it off...

On the hunt for a white eggshell trim paint that's not got too much of a sheen, I like the Little Greene eggshell but it's too pricey. Thanks

Hi all. I'm painting an entire house from mist coat. I bought arroworthy medium pile blue vein rollers to start off with but have also tried a different make, and I've been using a pole. After about 15 minutes the roller is going super flat and I can't seem to get the paint to spread out so I'm...

Hi all. I have some new door linings to paint, they are quite knotty so I know I'll need to treat the knots. Some of the knots are quite rough and pitted. I'm reading conflicting advice that I should prime first and then fill in any imperfections in the knots before sanding and painting, and...

Hi. Excuse my terrible drawing skills! We are having a bathroom fitted in a room with a sloping ceiling, the tiles on the low wall will not be full height. Where this wall meets the sloping walls our fitter has recommended to leave a cut off corner with no tiles on those walls (Option 2 on the...

Hello. We need to fix our double pocket door kit at finished floor level which is around 20mm above the current Cemfloor screeded floor which has UFH pipes fairly close to the surface. We are thinking of attaching a 20mm baton to the screed and screwing into that (it's only 2 screws per side)...

Random one! Taking up some old screed/latex and it's green on the underside, is that normal? Thanks!

Hi all. The boiler is suddenly only firing up for the hot water but not the heating. The 3 port valve doesn't move position when the heating is switched on. When I click it over into the heating position the hot water pipe heats up but the boiler doesn't fire up unless we put the hot water on...