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Hi, We used Mapei medium grey grout for the tiling but the matching sealant behind the kitchen worktop does not look good at all. The colour is quite different, perhaps as it's so shiny. Someone mentioned BAL grout effect but I wondered what one would be a good match or if there is an...

My partner pulled up the laminate floor in our Edwardian house and discovered the floorboard next to the doors was rotten. It looks like there is no DPM. I'm not sure if you can tell from these photos. What are the options to resolve this? No point in replacing the boards until this issue is...

Hi, What size piece of MDF should I get to create the shape and size? The max width I can find is 2200mm , so will it need to be created out of two pieces? Just wondered how you would go about this. It's to replace a damaged side of a staircase. Thanks

Hi, I am having my kitchen done, old 1900 property. I came home to discover the wall had been covered in plasterboard, losing 2 inches of the wall. I can about live with that but I have lost my window sill. Now all there is the window sill within the wall. My heart sank as I am restoring...

I'm not if spandrel is the right term but we had a stud wall removed and discovered the side part of the stairs was gone. There is a piece of plasterboard and the spandrel in wood would need to sit in front of it and then a piece of skirting. I have been quoted £300 to fix it but hoped I could...

Hi, We purchased an old Victorian house which has the original inserts converted to gas. The fire was capped off. Someone came down to look and said it was fine to upcap it and replace the gas fire basket. He fitted it and then informed me there was a small gas leak from the pipe where you...

Hi, We have an early 1900's house in London, which was two flats and we are converting back to one house. The stud wall has been removed Itin the hall and a plasterboard removed from part of the ceiling, revealing the badly damaged original ceiling above. It's a bit of a mess with some of the...

We are taking down stud walls in our victorian property. They were added in the 80's, but we are confused by the stairs. In this pic you can see the frame of the stud wall we removed, part of the frame is sitting under a 'penisular' part of the landing. Next we want to remove the frame...

Hi, I have recently moved into an old Edwardian property and the original open fires were converted to gas. But the elderly lady we purchased it from says they were all capped off and doesn't know why. I just wondered what my first step should be in finding out the issue? Is it a gas...

Hi, We have moved into a new house where we have an alarm system but we are taking down a stud wall where the control panel is on one side and on the adjacent side is two red buttons. We have been quoted £200 to move it but when I looked again today it appears to be wireless. If so can it not...

Hi, I have moved into a victorian house which was turned into two flats, so I'm in the process of turning it back into a single house. There are two non vented cylinder boilers, one downstairs and one up. Both with their own tanks and pumps to increase pressure. I really need to get rid of...

I have what looks like rising damp in my living room of an old late 1920's house. It's below the bay window, on the bottom above the skirting board and stretches about an inch above. I can see the paint peeling and the plaster is discoloured. The flooring is just the original suspended wood...

Hi, I have Bosch washer dryer and there appears to be an issue with the water draining. It goes through a cycle and the door opens but the clothes are still wet when on dry. There is no water in the drum itself but when I unscrew the catcher part tons of water comes out. I checked the sump...

I had my walls plastered in two rooms, applied mist coat. One room using Little Greene French pale looks amazing but the other room looks awful. I used Dulux Hertiage York White. After the mist coat I did paint it in Little Greene paint yellow and it was not a nice colour, so wanted...

Hi, I have an oak beam for a mantle that is 3ft in length and then 5x5 inches. I wondered if was best to use straight brackets or T-Shape Brackets to fix it above the fireplace? My previous one was straight brackets. Any advice would be great, including size. I'm not doing anything that...

Hi, We had our walls plastered and they removed our floating oak beam over the fireplace. The fixings have been left in the back of the beam and are bent. They are quite a thick diameter screw and I wondered how I could remove them from the wood to start again. Any suggestions? Thanks

Hi, We have been having our house renovated and the walls plastered , old skirting removed. New skirting is being fitted next week but in one area there is a 1cm or so deep gap and the skirting isn't high enough to cover it. Can anyone suggest a solution? I'm not quite sure how to deal with...

Hi, We have a Mira advanced shower which we no longer want as it has stopped working, plus it isn't very powerful, but with the water pipe coming up from the bottom on the right, I am unclear what replacement options we have. Also as you can see we dont have a huge amount of room on the...

Hi, We have a small narrow hallway with recessed lights. I am a complete novice regarding wallpapering and wondered what the best approach was to deal with the recessed lighting as we want to use lining paper over the ceiling. Would you go straight down the length in one long strip or across...

Hi, I have an oak table from Next, a few years old now and the top has been ruined. It's the same one as in this photo, although they have looked after theirs much better than I have. I want to sand the top down but unsure how to finish it to match the legs. I appreciate it's just a photo, I...