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I stripped all the old wallpaper from my walls mainly with a steamer, as expected after skimming the origin fine cracks re-appeared. I've seen some suggestions about opening them up and filling them but there are too many to do that to them all. Some suggestions about using decorators caulk but...

Ok... I live about 500 miles away from my mother, she has 3 star cover from British Gas, which I life having as my mother is a bit vulnerable so prepared to pay extra if it means whoever comes out to fix it for her will get it fixed or die trying. Hot water comes out of all taps at a good...

I have a ground floor kitchen with a cement floor that I'm going to put a screed over and apply a liquid dpm too. There are some gaps between the cement and the wall that I don't want the screed to fill and some are quite deep. I'm trying to find a good barrier mortar to fill them with...

I've been doing a bit of work on my house and last night I removed all the old wallpaper in my living room. However on one wall I've noticed quite a bit of damp. This is an interior wall that supports the stair case on the other side. Below the staircase is a cavity that is used as storage...

For the last 3 night I've come home from work and spent 4 hours stripping paint from my plastered ceiling so I can get it reskimmed. So far I've removed about 3m square, although there is approx another 2m square that looks flakey enough that it shouldn't be too much trouble, but the majority...

This screwball idea of mine has disaster written all over it. I ripped out my kitchen with the plan of tackling the floor, DPM'ing it and fitting tiles and a new kitchen. However after ripping the kitchen out I found it had a lead supply pipe. After reading the numerous websites that...

First I want to apologies for asking the same question that's been asked over 100 times in a hundred different ways with lots of different answers but I just want to be 100% sure before I proceed. I live in an ex-local authority house, back in the day to stop the terraced houses burning down...

I recently had a storm porch built, the floor is concrete and to floor it I thought I would use tiles but before I do that I need to level the floor. I was thinking of using some self leveling compound but before I do that, before the door there is a row of interior bricks with a dpm...

I'm trying to renovate my ex-council house and one thing that has always bugged me is that on the ground floor the livingroom floor (which is wooden floor boards) is about an inch lower then the flooring in the kitchen and utility area. I recently took down a wall to make the utility area a...

I'm not really much of an electician in fact I'm not an electician at all. My electric shower died on me, The thing was old and came with the lemhouse I bought 6 months ago. The thing was from the 70's and dort of knowing my way around electrics on a basic level I went to B&Q and bought a...