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Has anyone ever tried spraying lacquer on to melamine? I have some boxing in to do and wanted to have as close to a high gloss finish as possible to match a sink unit. My cunning plan is to find some old white melamine from an old wardrobe, clean it up, spray it, et viola! If this is a no go...

I have an ambitious plan to build a workshop. It will have a flat roof and I'm considering a GRP covering. I found an excellent YouTube how to for the GRP bit, just need a bit of help with the fascia and soffit detail. My question is what to do when joining the fascia to the roof joists and how...

On my desktop i have hotmail as a favourite, when i click on it it doesnt load up, its just a blank screen. i noticed the bar at the top is coloured green? it isnt coloured green when i open up additional tabs. there isnt a problem accessing hotmail when i use my phone or tablet, just seems to...

I had a new front door fitted and the door is now in the front external wall. the old door was set back 2feet or so from the external wall. above the old door and frame is some brickwork, i dont know what kind of wall it is ie load bearing etc, but there is a crack in line with the mortar about...

I have an old concrete garage, circa 1950's which I'm using as a workshop. It is very dilapidated and is a matter of time before if collapses on my head. My plan is to demolish and then build a new workshop using concrete block. I have no idea of the condition or depth of the foundations and in...

Am at my in laws house. There was an awful smell like drains in the house. Managed to figure out it was coming from the fridge freezer. It's an aeg Santo, we checked for blockages in the pipes that run to the drip tray and the drip tray itself was bone dry and they were fine. While we were...

I bought a nexus10 tablet and was watching stuff on my tv via the HDMI lead to the tablet. This morning the tv seems to have lost its blue. Its not an old tv, we bought it new about 6/7 years ago. It was fine yesterday and I wasnt using the tablet to watch stuff through it. Is it coincidence...

Hello everybody peeps, My question is a simple one. My computer is quite far from a bt point, so to get on t'internet I bought a wi-fi thingamajig from argos. This works fine but my computer runs very slowly and i was told this is because wi-fi uses/stores more temporary files and they need to...

Please help, The hot tap in our bath has started acting up. It flows fine for about 5-10seconds, spurts and splutters a bit, then eventually nothing comes out. However, if I open the hot or cold tap in the bathroom sink, the water starts to flow out of the hot tap in the bath! The cold taps are...

Hi all, there is a wall vent in the room I wil be skimming. I want to remove it as it lets in so much air it chills the room! Question is can/should I and do I need to replace with bricks or would I get away with plasterboard or a piece of ply? The room has a window so I was wondering why the...

Hi all, was attempting to scrape off high points on ceiling in preparation for sealing up. The damned scraper is just bouncing over the top of what I can only describe as internal roughcast. Was thinking how to get round this. Should I A- Apply WBA to ceiling then x3 skim over that? B- Seal...

Need to do a small patch up job on some pebbledash that's blown. Question is how do I get the spar on the new render? Do I need a Harling trowel or is there some cheap gizmo I could knock up? Don't really have use for a Harling trowel. The patch job is approx 4m2.

Hi, has anyone skimmed/bonded over painted internal roughcast Walls? Should I Use bonding agent or PVA?

Having a problem with boiler buzzing when heating is switched off. This only stops if I leave the heating on. Turned all the rad valves down now its a bit warmer and switch off the boiler(ikon) when going to bed. Would this increase our bill? I've heard that leaving it on is probably...

I had a problem with the hot water where the valve was knackered so the plumber came and replaced the valve. That issue is well and truly resolved. Now the boiler is buzzing away when the CH is switched OFF, this buzzing has never happened before. Plumber came again yesterday and isolated the...

Hot water is absolutely scalding!!!!!!!!!!! :( so far I have:- tried turning down cylinder stat but nothing changed. tried turning CH off and nothing changed. there are x2 zone valves but I dont know which is which, as the levers on both dont move when I switch off either CH or HW at the...

I heard somewhere that when wiring a consumer unit, the highest amp breaker should go next to the main switch and lowest amp farther down the board. Is this correct? I have an old Wylex board with rewireable fuses fitted, the fuses are fitted in no particular order and the highest rated fuse is...

hello everybody, during a spell of bad weather recently, a largish area of pebbledash decided to make a break for it and part company with the wall. I approached my insurance firm and they weren't interested so I asked a builder who when inspecting the job said something about the unibond not...

hello everybody, have just joined the forum so please forgive my total lack of knowledge on the subject of plastering, i have many questions. I recently bought a 1950's semi that is in need of redecoration and am attempting to prioritize my baby son's room. There is only one flat smooth wall in...