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    Eggshell paint on newly plastered bathroom walls?

    So...painting a newly plastered bathroom. Ceiling and two internal walls skimmed, the two external walls were replastered -- going to wait another couple of weeks before I paint to make sure they are totally dry. I have been planning to get Leyland/Johnstone acrylic eggshell for the walls...
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    The Wall of Indestructible Gloss

    The front entry hall of my house is like the technical challenge on a Great British Decorate-Off. The problem wall is made of breezeblock, unplastered. It is painted in some kind of gloss paint, which was ridged somehow to give an effect of big stone blocks. I'm guessing the paint dates back...
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    wood beading as tile edge trim?

    I am about to tile the kitchen, halfway up the wall, and just looking at how to finish the edges. First time I have encountered these edging strips, and I don't like them. The tiles are the same colour as the wall paint (antique white), it's a very olde worlde cottage kitchen, and I just can't...
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    30 sq m of big slate floor tiles: preparation+ laying!

    I am getting very confused and stressed, and we haven't even started. I know this job will be difficult (and may get a tiler in to lay and grout eventually), but in the meantime I would love some advice on at least preparing the floor properly for the project. Room is 30 sq m. Floor is...
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    Screed to raise floor level before tiling?

    I'm taking up an old wood block floor, and putting down tiles (probably slate) instead. The room is roughly 25 sq m. The wood blocks are about 3.3 cm high, stuck with bitumen on concrete. The concrete I have exposed so far seems reasonably sound and dry. There is no modern DPM. However...
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    Old polystyrene wall insulation -- keep it or not?

    I am about to start knocking some walls down to create the kitchen/dining room, and so I began peeling off some of the early 1980s textured wallpaper that I was blessed with by the previous owners. I discovered that on the outside wall, underneath the wallpaper is a very thin layer of...
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    Last questions on finishing reclaimed woodblock floor

    After a process that has taken almost two years, I am just about ready to sand and finish my reclaimed woodblock floor. The blocks are 1 3/4 inc high, and some kind of pine. Any varnish or finish they have ever had is long since gone. I have laid them in a herringbone pattern, with a single edge...
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    Need brown cable for ceiling lights

    The cable for the ceiling lights in the loft room is going to run along the beams (stripped back to antique pine colour), next to the antique white ceiling. There's really no way of hiding the cable completely, so I just need it to fit in as well as possible. White is just going to be wrong. I'm...
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    Exterior windows: change dark brown to lighter Sadolin

    I have old hardwood windows, currently done in a very dark brown Sadolin. I want to stick with Sadolin, but one of the nice colours of Superdec, probably a greenish/bluish/grey. Can I just sand off the loose bits, and paint straight over, or will the dark brown show through badly? If so, is it...
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    Sanding reclaimed woodblock floor

    After about a year in progess, I am just about ready to sand the floor. Although I've read everything, including WoodYouLike's handy guide, obviously MY floor doesn't conform to anything else exactly :? , and I need to know if the same recommendation still apply. The details: * Room is about...
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    Laying reclaimed wood block flooring

    Right. I am looking for any last minute advice before I start. The floor in the sitting room of my victorian house was made of wood blocks -- not your standard ones, but blocks roughly 6 cm high (more than two inches). These blocks covered about 2/3 of the floor in the room, with one part of...
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    Painting tongue-and-groove loft ceiling

    I am trying to sort out the best/easiest way to paint the tongue-and-groove ceiling in my new loft room. It's a 5m by 5m room, pitched ceiling, and the tongue and groove boarding appears to have been stained a medium dark brown, and not varnished. I am planning to paint the ceiling antique...
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