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Hello everybody! I’ve just removed peeling lining paper from the walls of my living room and I’m now left with quite a lot of paste residue on the walls. I’ve just about resigned myself to steaming/scraping/sugar soaping the paste off as best as possible but just noticed a product that might...

Got a 1200ga DPM on top of the existing floor slab. Now planning to lay Celotex on top and T&G chipboard flooring on top. Do I need to separate the insulation and T&G flooring with a vapour control layer. I can probably tape the foil on the celotex, or I have some 1200ga left over I could...

Finished insulating my stud work this weekend. It's 4" deep timber with 75mm Celotex between leaving a 1" gap in front for cables & k/o boxes. I plan to run the cables horizontally in the void on the room side of the Celotex, with notches in the front of the studs. I've installed some secondary...

Hi, I'm currently fitting Celotex GA4000 between wall studwork and roof rafters in my garage. It's foil backed on both sides. One side is printed. Does it make any difference which way round I install it (i.e. printed side facing in/down or out/up?). Have signed up to Celotex website to get...

Hi all, I've reposted this to the 'Building' forum as it wasn't get much of a response in the 'Your Projects' forum... I'm DIYing a conversion of a single block work shed in our garden to make a home office. We've had some roof leaks from the one verge due to poor mortar bedding which has...

Hi, Had my artex ceiling scraped and skimmed at the end of December. I waited a week with a dehumidifier on in the room before painting first coat with B&Q matt emulsion watered down 2:1 paint:water, then second coat of the same but watered down 3:1 paint:water, then third coat same 3:1 again...