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We had a delivery this morning and (our fault) I can't now close our front door properly. The door will close with a heavy push on to the latch, but the handle will not turn up to lock. Turns out a shoe had fallen behind the door next to the bottom hinge and it has somehow pushed the hinges...

I have had Johnstone's Acrylic Satin paint before and have painted all the wood work in my house with, previously using mid grey and a light green colour, it was great to work with. This week I used Leyland Acrylic white and it was a very thick consistency so I watered it down a little and it...

Currently the walls were painted with Dulux kitchen paint (never again), about 6 years ago and needs a good scrub and rinse with sugar soap. The room gets fairly humid and quite a lot of steam on the walls even when I cook, even with windows and doors open. This has caused a couple of very...

1. I'm finally getting around to painting the doors in our house which were dipped and stripped some time ago. I have Johnstone's trade aluminium based primer to prime them. Can I use water based satin straight over the aluminium primer? It is a light to mid grey Johnstone's trade colour satin...

So I have got all my tongue and groove installed and will be picking up some tinted Johnstone's Trade Acrylic Satin this afternoon. Can I please get a little advice how to apply and what with, as I understand it is quite a bit harder to work with than oil based, but I want to get through it and...

I've just installed some tongue and groove and wainscotting in our bedroom and the walls were pretty badly out in some places, requiring a fair bit of packing behind some of the batoning. There are a couple of really bad bits , e.g. the external angle on one side of an old blocked off chimney...

I will be fitting some wall panels over the next couple of weeks and think I will probably have an issue bringing the sockets out to sit flush. The wiring in other sockets in the house have had zero slack when replacing them. The panels will also be 12mm thick against 19mm battens so I already...

A couple of years ago we noticed some mould and posted some pictures and the good people here stated spot moulding, which I confirmed by other pics of condensation caused spot mould on walls. Now we are ready to paint over it, but are unsure how to prepare the walls. We are sure the problem...

I bought a new IP65 rated light as our bathroom one started flickering and I was pretty certain the type of light had no business being in a bathroom anyway, confirmed by the amount of rust and not being sealed. I took down the old one and it was a bit tight to see and some of the wiring...

Hopefully this is the right forum... I was just wondering if what you can see in this photo is damp and what I should do about it? I've never noticed it before as the room is quite dark as curtains are always drawn, it is far more pronounced in the pictures than looking at the wall...

Was just wondering what is the correct type of drill bit to use to make a hole for the spindle of new door handles? The doors are solid wood.

As per the title really, we have just had the doors stripped and received them back today but they are still pretty wet from the process. I know they may not fit and may later need planing, but assuming they do fit, is it safe to rehang them?

We're wanting to replace some doors in the house but want to do it for about £40 to £50 max per door. This seems to leave us with a choice of pine panneled doors from B & Q as the only option due to the sizes with it being an old flat, but all the doors they sell say only 5mm can be trimmed...

Can someone recommend a good reliable online store that sell cheap circular saw blades? It’s only to lay a couple of laminate floors so I don’t need anything too expensive. Preferably a store where they can tell you if the item is in stock. Have ordered a couple from toolsinstock.co.uk but...

Before I lay laminate in my living room I need a little advice how to cover the gap between the room and the adjoining kitchen. There is a 2-3 centimeter gap between the kitchen laminate and the top of the floorboards from the living room so a reducer is no good. The door frame also has a...

Was just wondering if anyone had experience of tiling glass mosaics with a slight transparency? The ones I will be using are here: http://www.binibi.co.uk/gbu0-prodshow/BNB4M-107.html When you hold them to the light there is a small amount of transparency. The cards came mounted on a...

I have a part P regisered electrician coming in a weeks time to replace a load of wiring in my kitchen, as well as earth my gas with thicker wire and earth my water which for some reason isn't done at all and fix some fused spurs for the living room lights which run off the sockets. The quote...