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I will charge up my phone and take a photo.

Thank you for your reply. I don't see any point of going to the huge amount of trouble to scrape off all the failing paint if the whole thing is going to covered over with some kind of new splashback. The problem with buying a splashback is that they are all the wrong size and shape to cover...

I recently changed the colour scheme in my kitchen. The decorator saw the area behind the hob was tiled with 4 inch ceramic tiles in colours that now clash with the new colour scheme. He then painted over the tiles with an oil based cream paint and it looked great. Six months later and half the...

Hi Champs it's not just the money, I found that when I changed my Yale lock it opened a can of worms as the cutout for the keep did not line up and I ended up paying money to a so called builder who made a right mess of it. Hi John the key looks like a normal Yale type front door key. The door...

Another dumb question from me! I have an ordinary mortice lock on my front door that needs a key to open it from inside or outside. I would like to change this so that instead of a key on the inside, it locks with a turning knob. Do I have to buy a whole new lock? If not, what words do I need...

I had a helper chip away at the bigger bits by slamming a sharp scraper down to chop them into small pieces then found that most of them come off with the high pressure hose. The man responsible denies slopping pug everywhere and said "someone else" must have done it. He is the ONLY person who...

I just found and bought this on ebay. Hoping it will help. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Concrete-Mortar-Dissolver-Cleaner/173488714438?hash=item2864bbb2c6:g:SAQAAOSwPcVVnCYs

The "builder" (pah!) I recently engaged to inset 10 new patio slabs has left loads of mortar ("pug"?) all over not only the old tiles but the new ones, too. We have smears, but also blobs of it and it's all dried rock hard. It looks awful. It is hardly surprising that someone who could be so...

thanks every one, all sorted now.

My shower (pic) runs off the CH/HW supply its not electric. The left hand knob is the on/off and it's busted. Just goes round and round and round ... I don't want to change the upright post that holds the shower head as I don't want to drill or fill holes in ceramic tiles. Questions: 1. Do I...

It is a flat roofed extension, as it happens.

The lady is doing the job right now, and has told me the walls are indeed greasy. That guy is a total "thinks he knows-it-all" tosser, and I will never employ him again.

I did a search for stainless steel spotlight bars. Turns out there is no such thing.

The purpose of getting rid of it is to build a line of 2ft deep sheds as we have zero storage in the house and no garage, basement, shed or anything.

I have absolutely no idea, Dave. How can one tell? I hate the tree and can't wait to get rid. What makes you ask? Have you any advice for killing the roots stone dead so they don't end up regrowing and pushing up the patio slabs?

ps NO that is not my outside toilet LOL ... it's an original Victorian loo we found underneath the floorboards!

So, no electric tools then? Okey dokey.

Well I own those, and a bolster-hammer. Or do you mean "don't use your own?" And should the planter be completely emptied of mud first or not? Thanks Woody

What tool shall I buy or hire to demolish a 2ft high, 5ft wide pentagonal red-brick planter which is just feet away from the house? I intend to engage a labourer and direct him. First he has to dig out and remove a small tree, and all the soil from the planter (unless people think it's better...

PHEW thanks Ken, for reassuring me that I am not being over-fussy. I've booked a lady cleaner to do the work for 4 hrs tomorrow. Then it'll have a day to dry before (another) painter comes on Monday to do the actual painting.