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Hi, I'm due to start an extension but cannot locate my external water stopcock in the street All the other houses in the street have stopcocks outside (some have meters), all I have is is tarmac in the location where the stopcock should be, I have phoned Thames Water, they said it is...

Hi, I have quite a few hairline cracks on my ceilings from plasterboard joins I'm currently decorating and looking at the following product to solve the problem http://www.wickes.co.uk/Master-Flexible-Ceiling-Cover-Paint/invt/605300 I have two walls with the same issue and I'm...

Thanks for the suggestions , the crack is on the internal Party wall, it is where a Chimney breast once was and has been bricked/blocked up and rendered & skimmed I'm no builder but would have guessed this crack is the where the edge of the new brickwork is (used to fill in the breast). I...

Hi, Thanks for answering my questions Yes it was a Steamer, didn't have much choice as the wallpaper wasn't shifting, although some of the skim came off just by pulling the paper off the wall The Property is Victorian (around 1890s) Regarding the crack in the wall, out of interest...

Hi, I stripped all my front room Wallpaper away at the weekend with a view to tidying the walls so I can paint directly onto them. Unfortunately a fair bit of the Skim Coat came away, some of the patches being around 50cm wide. The walls are made up of Cement & Sand render with around a...