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When it was freezing a couple of weeks ago I left my 25 liter tub of white emulsion outside. I needed to use it stupid I know so it had a head on and I tried to mix it but it just went lumpy. After bringing it inside and leaving it for a few days it has gone resonaabley ok but has go some...

I have just bought a reposed house and need to secure the smashed windows till glazing arrives. What timber sheeting can I use. Is chipboard ok ?

Just bought a new brick house reposention house to rent out and at the back of it someone has spray painted something on the wall. What is the best way to remove this. Will acid brickj cleaner work and is it a easy job ?

Just bought a reposed house and one of its got french door on it but one of the doors is gone. Do glazing firms replace one door on french doors or do you have to purchase the whole unit ?

One of the upvc windows in my house would not open so I unscrewed the handle off to have a look to see if i could get the window open. I have found out from looking at the working windows in my house what the problem is. The bar what come out the handle is square and it fits in the square...

I have just put a new shower in and there is some plugs in the tile where the old one was screwed to. I going to try and get them out, I was thinking about screwing a screw into the plug then pulling out with pgrips. My worry here is the tile might pull off the wall. Any ideas or tips of a...

I have converted the loft and in there I have made four opening for storage. I have put the doors on what I made and have put the hinges on the top so they open upwards. I want to know what I need to get so when I open the doors upwards they lock in that position on a catch of some sort so...

In my nans house she has a gravity fed system with a water meter. She has a boiler which is not a combi for the radiators. No work has been carried out on the pipes all was fine then suddenly the cold water tap upstair has gone very low and sometimes stops. I put new taps on and then run the...

In our kitchen we had a plastic ceiling. I have now took that down and there was a artex ceiling below. I plan to plasterboard the ceiling and skim. When I took the plastic ceiling down there is batterens fixed to the artex ceiling into the ceiling joists. My kitchen ceiling is 8 ft wide so I...

I have just put up new skirting board and want to paint it with clear varnish. What I want to know where the miters meet and they are not 100 % perfect is there any fillers for this so it blends in ? I was originally painting white so could hide the gaps well, is there any fillers what look...

Just plastered a room in house and was wondering how long I have to leave plaster before I can paint it ? Cheers

We have a crack on the outside of are house in the pebble dash. I bought the house off my mum for cash so never got a surveyor but she bought the house 20 yrs ago and the crack was there and she had it filled in but it came back. I dont know how good of a job they filed it in as I was only a...

I put and few trowel fulls of plaster on a boarded wall and had to rush out the plaster has gone hard and I need to remove and start again as it was not even out. What is the best way to remove the plaster from th eplaster board. Was thinking a wallpaper steamer ? Sanding would take forever.

I have converted my loft for storage but when doing it there was a smell in there. I have now found out that it is coming from the top of the soil pipe and the smell is coming in through the tiles and felt. I know you can get durgo valves for plastic pipe but was wondering if you can get them...

I have just boarded nearly all my loft with foil back plaster boards . I have ran out of the foil back plaster boards and have a piece of about 2ft squared to complete the job. I have got some standard board what will fit and some polythene vapour barrier left. Would it be ok to staple the...

Can you use anything like gymsum bonding or have you got to use a specific filler?

In my loft I have studded out the wall what divides the two houses. I have insulated with lagging and am going to put a 6 mm vapour barrier then plaster board. What I need to know is at the top of the wall what meets the roof there is a draft there coming through the felt. Shall I...

I a looking at investing some money into a house to rent out. I have went round to look at the house and it needs alot of wor which does not worry me as I can do alot of it myself. I have looked at roof and it has about 50 broken tiles which if replaced would be fine. The tile on the roof are...

In my loft my rafter's are 75 . I have left a 25mm air gap then 50mm Kingspan then foil back plaster board to prevent condensation. Now I am not insulating the rafters underneath the big eaves i.e the shallow part of the roof. Now the wall's what come straight down from the eaves I have...

What would you say is a reasonalble price for the labour on fitting a velux window. The size of the window is the large so7 ?