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Hi All Looking for some good advice. I am looking to decorate a bedroom which has 2 very cold walls> I want to use a good thermal wallpaper. I have used warmaline in the past and found it rubbish. I am no pro but found it ripped and dented very easily and therefor found the finish terrible. Can...

Ok so have stripped the paint and as much varnish of my staircase as I can - I am pretty happy with it even though it has taken nearly 2 weeks! Now that looks tidy the white skirting board which runs up the stairs looks awful so I am going to strip it back to bare wood and repaint. Can anyone...

Hi everyone - once again after some advice from you pro's When we bought our house we put new banisters rails etc and varnished it dark (years ago that was the "in" thing. Now I hate it. I have started to very laboriously strip all the varnish off. The wood is coming up good but I would like it...

Advice needed. Basically I have an old stone wall house. I have terrible trouble with condensation forming in bedroom. Tries leaving window open, dehumidifier, air brick and all the rest but to no avail. Decorated room 6 months ago. Great till last month - paint has now started blowing off 2...

Hi should this has been asked many times but here goes. I have removed paper from a troublesome wall. We have many cold (not damp spots) as it is an old house at least 18inch thick stone walls. Of course when taking paper off i have taken off some old emulsion. I attempted to fill these in but...

I have a radiator which is hot at top and cold at bottom - im guessing its sludge. Is there anyway i can clean it without taking rad off please?

Have a roofer down today to check roof and no problems there. He looked at walls and thought we had cold spots. He recommended using a thermal membrane - so my question is can anyone tell me which is the best one to use. Apparently it has 2 layers of foil - which then i can paper over. Please...

Hi. Still having trouble with mold appearing on a cold outside bedroom wall. Done everything we can think off - but nothing is working. I have read on one of the posts about a thermal membrane. What is it? How do you put it on the all and can i paint over it? Sorry for stupid questions but...

I am desperate for some advice. I have been decorating a bedroom. I took off old wallpaper filled patches etc and filled in cracks - in fact followed all advice on here. Three walls are great but the wall which needed the most filling in has turned into a nightmare. I am getting patches...

I have a problem. before painting a bedroom wall there was a small thin crack in the plaster - which i am positive is where 2 plaster boards are joined. I rubbed down the edges then applied mist coats etc. Now the wall is finished but to my annoyance the crack has reappeared. It is a very thin...

Hi - I have just finished painting walls in a bedroom. On one wall there are 3 small patches (Not big but noticeable) showing up. I tried putting more paint but they just reappear!! I suspect it could be small patches of wallpaper paste I havent washed off properly (what a plonker). Is there...

Really need advice please. I repainted my bedroom just coming to a year ago. I took off all old paint etc which took hours, filled cracks etc with pollyfilla and sanded down to smooth then gave walls 2 mist coats i then emulsioned which looked great. Now the paint is peeling, cracking and some...

Bit of a long story but the more information you have the more chance i have of someone advising me ( I hope). I have 2 problems. Ok - i wanted to redecorate my bedroom so i stripped the wall paper off. As per usual some of the old emulsion came off some didnt so i rubbed it all down until...

Bit of a long story but the more information you have the more chance i have of someone advising me ( I hope). I have 2 problems. Ok - i wanted to redecorate my bedroom so i stripped the wall paper off. As per usual some of the old emulsion came off some didnt so i rubbed it all down until...

Can someone please help. Last summer I decided to remove wall paper in my bedroom as i want to go back to painted plaster walls. I washed walls to remove paste. Gave 2 coats of mist coats then painted Dulux emulsion (2 coats). Now the paint has started to blow off the walls in areas. It appears...

Help. I have just tries to put new sealant around shower cubicle and unbeknown to me there was a layer of clear sealant which i did not take off. Result disaster it looks awful but now i am having a terrible job trying to get if off :oops: Can someone offer advice please?

To cut a long story short i removed wall paper in bedroom to find 2 walls were horribly stained with mould and mildew stains. I have used a fungicide etc. I want to just paint the walls not wall paper so my question is this should i use some sort of stain blocker? If so could you tell me which...

Hi if you see my previous post you will see had walls replastered.They have had 2 mist coats and now 2 coats of matt paint but are still very patch and dimply. Going to try another coat tomorrow but should i sand the walls down first. Have read on some posts that you can oversand is that true...

Hi. I have had a room walls repleastered. They were left to dry and then 2 mist coats of emulsion painted on top - each time they were sanded down . Now i can not get an even coverage of matt paint. The top layer looks dimply and shiny in places. I have used a roller and followed countless...

Hi John Just thought I would let you know that thanks to your expert advice I now have a perfectly (well 99% perfect) level floor. I am one very happy bunny and I did enjoy doing it. Think I will take building up for a living (joke of course). Thanks again you gave me the confidence to have a...