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HAHA - we may get the grandkids to try that for us tonight as we haven't really decided on the colour yet and we wouldn't know how to do it. I suppose grey might be a good choice because at least we already know how that looks and if it does peel at some stage then it may not show up as much...

Oh, and the WD40 has just been tried but just makes a smudge on the light grey stuff so that doesn't seem to work. :(

I think it's probably a good idea to go with black as it would match the downpipe from the gutter and that is still shiny. That is tucked away around the corner but from one angle both pipes are visible so it makes sense to have them matching and I suppose balck will show the dirt less in...

I understand your point regarding low maintenance but I think replacing perfectly serviceable pipes would be a bit OTT, expensive, and fiddly, because the bottom of the pipe has a bend that is partially concreted into the ground. We have always painted the PVC pipes on our own house pipes...

Yes, I agree about the different shades of grey - if I had a few more I could be an author. LOL It's annoying because all the soil pipe was the same colour when new and looked quite acceptable but it's now pretty drab looking although the joints are still pretty much the same colour as they were...

Hello again everyone, We have a small house we are going to rent out to a relative and want to make the outside look as presentable as possible before they move in . We had all new pipework fitted when we renewed the bathroom about 8 years ago but this has faded and looks grubby so is in need...

Never, ever throw away a tool, eh?! ;) Glad it's working so far.

Well, my daughter and I tried the boiling water this morning and the paint softened enough to scrape it off with a very worn chisel - now I know why my husbad refuses to throw it away!! :lol: The remaining softened bits came off with one of those non-scratch bathroom sponges. We've only...

That sounds like it's worth a try. I think a scourerer may be a bit harsh as well because it doesn't take much with a scraper to mark them. Fingers crossed that the hot water will help. Thank you. Maggie

Hello all, I'm hoping some of you experts can help with an issue that has bothered us for some years? Our daughter's house has white (manufacturer's coating) aluminium windows and doors which look like new, and work perfectly well, but have lots of smears of dark grey masonry paint on the...

I agree, and usually do, but seeing as I didn't get any further responses until today, I didn't think anyone was interested. Thanks again. :)

Hi foxhole, Thanks for the advice but everything is working fine now. I didn't even have to do anything and it started working the next day. From what I've read, it seems it was a fault with the Outlook server and the change of date to 2014, because many people were complaining about the...

A development when I tried oven today - everything but the actual heating of the oven is now working. The fan works, the grill, the clock, the light, but there is still a rattling noise after the oven has been on for 5 minutes or so, which sounds like it is in the top rather than the fan in the...

Hello all, My Whirlpool Oven has just tripped the circuit breaker and now won't work at all. After turning the power back on, the LCD display just reads STOP (which is normal after a power cut)) and I can't do anything with it. Before it tripped the power, it was making a tinny, rattling...

Hi, Diyisfun, and thanks for the link, but...I should have explained earlier....I have already tried to access the settings in both accounts but cannot get into the settings for POP on the sky account. It sends me to a login page for Yahoo which will not let me sign in with my sky ID and...

Hello all, I'm having problems with my Hotmail (Outlook) account. I have a Sky email account that is linked via POP3 to my Hotmail account which has worked perfectly for around 3 years. However, for about the past 10 days, the Hotmail account hasn't been receiving the emails that are...

I'm afraid you'll have to tell me because, as I've said, there isnt any! The only thing I can think of is that the wallpaper paste activates the tar which then leads it to bleed through the paper....same principle for the already tried primers/stain blocks, I suppose. Maggie

Thanks, joe90, but it's definitely not damp as the house has had a new dampcourse and had been tested before the old wallpaper was removed - dry as the proverbial bone plus the stains only bleed through where the tar has been exposed after stripping the old paper I may have been wrong when I...