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Hi all, Need to help the mother in law out....... and i have picked the short straw. Need some advice on painting her new place. Anyway she has just been given a bedsit/flat by the council as she was living with other family members for the time being. She works and is on low income so the...

Hi all, I am redecorating one of our bedrooms in the house and spent the whole day prepping (My granddad who was a decorator said the prep is more important than the painting) and today I painted the first coat of Dulux white silk on the ceiling as the ceiling had already been painted by...

Hi all, We want to give our rooms a quick refresh as we plan to stay here for a few years but one thing I have noticed is I am not sure if the coving has been painted with gloss by the last owner. To me it has a shiny finish but I cant tell if that's silk or gloss Should I just rub down the...

Hi all, We have a downstairs bathroom which has a bath and shower and we have no kind of extractor fan fitted in the room. The only kind of vent is a celling mounted grill that is located above the bath and is connected to a flexi pipe to an outside grill on the wall as the bathroom has 3...

Hi all, We have just moved into a house and the people before us had a dog we think. When viewing we did not notice the smell but now we have moved in we have noticed the dog smell and maybe the odd urine smell in places just on our downstairs carpets. So we had a local carpet cleaning...

Hi all, I applied Tile Master PrimePlus Flexible Primer around my bath and sink and for some reason it peels off very easy and has not soaked into the plaster skim so I did not start to tile as I thought it would pull right off with the weight of them if I had carried on. The plaster...

Hi all, I was stripping some of our walls in our bedroom and noticed the paint on the celling started to form large bubbles so I thought this was not right and started to pull it away. The whole lot pulled of the celling with no force at all. I think the other person that had the place...

Hi all, I have a bedroom celling which I think was painted with cheap B&Q white vinyl silk 4 years ago. I am now wanting to paint the celling with Dulux White Matt but from reading online people suggest this cannot be done and that the matt paint will not fix correct and could also dis colour...

Hi all, We had our bathroom skimmed over 7 weeks ago. I have not yet applied a miss coat of paint to the walls and celling as I was planning on doing that once the tiles are fitted around the bath and basin as people on here suggested that's the best way to fix the tiles direct to the skimmed...

Hi We have just had all our walls and celling skimmed in our bathroom and I wanted to know when the best time is to tile around bath and basin. We are looking at only applying tiles around 2 to 3 tiles high with a line of mosaic tiles in between. Do I miss coat the walls first then paint...

Hi, Just had my bathroom walls and celling skimmed a week ago and the odd bits of plaster repaird as well. My next question how long do I leave it before I can paint and what prep work do I need to do before painting it. I have been leaving the window open to get air into the room. Also...

Hi all, I have removed around 7 concrete slabs which was our garden path in the garden that we never used. There was no sand and cement used to keep these down and they was only layed onto the soil many years ago. What would be the quickest and cheapest way to grass the area where the...

Hi all We had some areas of plaster repaired by the council in the bathroom last year but I never gave the plaster a miss coat of paint etc after it dried and we are tilling the bathroom next month. Do I need to apply a mis coat or some other type of agent before we apply the tiles to these...

Hi all, We are going to be fitting tiles in our bathroom next month and I am starting to prep the room. Is it best to paint the celling before I tile the walls? What am I best to use to cover up and fill some small dents in the celling no larger than a few inches but there is a few and we...

Hi Well we are thinking of tiling our bathroom soon on all walls floor to celling and I wanted to know what sort of tile size should I be looking at for a small bathrrom. Room Width is 1m 67cm x 2m 48cm with a height of 2m 32cm. I have worked it out at around 20sqm without taking the...

Hi all, Not sure if this is the correct thread but I am planning on fitting tiles floor to celling in our bathroom and on the floor. We rent from the council and they have approved us to tile the walls and to box in the pipes. The agreement is we must be able to get to the pipes if needed...

Hi all, We live in a council flat and wanted to decorate our small bathroom we have. At the min as you can see from the photo's we have removed the wall paper which was on the walls and also the old style celling tiles have also been removed. We don't want to change the bathroom suite as...

Hi all, I have recently took up the UPVC strip which also brought up the line of tiles in front our balcony sliding patio door at the same time due to new carpet going down in a few weeks. So as I took the strip up and tiles I decided to remove any lose cement which left a few small holes...

Hi all, As you can see from the picture below I need some advice on what would the best way to end the new carpet we are fitting next week infront of this door (Please note cement was still wet when taking this pic and I am fixing the tiles as well). IMAG0260 by chrisb1357, on Flickr...

Hi all, I have a set of sliding UPVC doors and have removed the carpet to find a gap between the bottom of UPVC door and the cement on the floor. What am I best to use to seal between the cement and upvc and does it need to be waterproof etc. This is the gap (I plan to fill the deep hole...