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I'm putting a corrugated steel roof on a lean to against an existing shed that has a corrugated steel wall. Is there any easy way to flash between the two? I'm not sure if flashband would be flexible enough, particularly if the peaks and troughs don't exactly line up. Anyone got any ideas...

Yes, could well be putty as the windows are fairly old as far as I know. My main concern (which I forgot to explain in the original post) is the frames, but obviously misted units are not good either and we've had a couple go over the last few years.

That's very helpful, many thanks. Good tip about the masking tape too. Cheers.

I wondered if anyone had any advice on the following. I remember seeing somewhere that it was a good idea to put a bead of silicone sealant on the outside of the window around the edge of the glass and the frame, as shown in red in the picture: The objective being, I think, to prevent water...

Thanks for all the advice. Yes, ideally I would change it, but I'll give matching it a go and see how it looks first.

No worries; you're right it's not the best thing ever, but this is an old cottage and there are millions of worse things to sort out. The patch is only about six inches square so for now trying to match it up is a lot easier than getting rid of it. I appreciate the guidance on what it probably...

Right ho, I'll try and find some of that then. Thanks for the info. Oh and thanks for the bonus detail of telling me how horrible my house looks :unsure:

I have to replace a patch of plasterboard, which has been painted with a stipple effect as shown in the pictures below and so need to try and figure out how to match it. It seems quite different to a normal type of artex stipple effect and is quite patchy, with variable size bumps. If I...

Hi all, the cold water tap is stiff on my kitchen mixer, so I thought I'd get the valve out to give it a bit of a grease, but unfortunately I can't seem to work out how to even get the top of the tap off. The tap looks like this: Bigger version: http://i.imgur.com/SMwo9.jpg...