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Your advice most welcome please...My bathroom ceiling is T&G pine, varnished, and probably 20 years since it was done. It looks old and dull, but the varnish is not peeling, and it does not seem to be degrading in any way. The area is about 10 feet by 8. I want to paint it white. What are my...

Hi...and help please! I've cut 12mm exterior ply ready to lay on my bathroom floor (area 10'x6') over very old and battered floorboards, which were only level in one corner. (At the partition wall they were 3/4" off true). I've used several tapered wooden strips, which I've screwed to the...

I have stripped the white gloss paint from my Victorian cast iron fireplace, using paint stripper, and followed all advice about what to do then about maintaining it in its unpainted state. Despite applications of white spirit, wire wool, wire brush, metal polish and hours of buffing, and now a...

The inner face of my external cellar wall is covered in a grey - feels almost rubbery - thick film with a regular pattern of slightly raised wavy concentrations of what appears to be the same substance. Looks like hundreds of tiny worms. It's a brick wall with powdery rendering (lime I would...