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We're painting a newly plastered room. The corners were a bit rough to I used caulk to smooth them out but the caulk seems to be cracking. I've painted with two coats of dulux trade supermatt emulsion. Cracks come back very quickly and are confined to the caulk. Any idease great fully...

Hi, We're in the middle of laying some reclaimed pine boards. They have been in the house a few weeks and seem very dry. The room is 12m aprox x 4m (3m for approx half of that). Stupidly we're laying the boards across the room. We have left 15mm expansion joints arround the edge, but should...

Hi, Afraid I’m asking for some advice again. Our builders are coming close to finishing our kitchen extension and we have scheduled to lay the floor before they install the kitchen. We are putting down reclaimed pine boards (nailed with brads into batons on the concrete floor) for the whole...

Hi, Hope you can help. We stripped back the floors upstairs and coated them with a hard wax oil. It looks great, and the colour is developing nicely, but it dents and scratches easily. We're now working on downstairs and have ordered some reclaimed pine to match, but wonder if it is...

Hi, We’ve got fed up with how easily noise travels between the ground and first floor of our little house so we’ve decided to combine stripping the boards with installing some insulation under them. We’ve gone for rockwool flexi slab...

Hi, We moved into our place a few months ago and we’ve finally made a start on trying to sort out the terribly unpleasant wallpaper in the bedrooms. From the rest of this post it will be pretty obvious that we don’t know very much about decorating! We stripped off the first layer of...