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Hi. I'm tiling my bathroom from floor to ceiling and was told to use a watered down PVA solution before tiling. I have PVA the walls but reading online, it is not recommended by some but is recommended by others. Will it be ok? Should I have used a Tile Primer? If so then can I apply the tile...

Hi. Just started our bathroom and had the ceiling plastered and its almost ready to paint. My neighbour said about using a exterior masonary paint. Is this a good idea or is there anything better available?

Hi. Just had our roof refelted, baton and new tiles fitted on our house about 2-3 weeks ago. We have had heavy rain and wind today and I went to put something in loft and just as I exited I notice the beam was wet. The membrane had a little wet patch by it where the baton gets nailed. I noticed...

Hi. Gonna be getting a new roof and the roofer said our double roman roof tiles that have a black coating on are worthless but have heard they are worth a bit? Will I get good money for them? There has got to be about 800 up there.

Hi. I live in a 1939 house that we bought last year that is detached and we have a leak in our spare room. I went up into the loft the other night to see if where it was coming in but no luck. I did noticed a damp patch on our loft insulation elsewhere in the loft. I looked at the felt and it's...

Hi. My wife and I have bought a 1930s house and we are decorating the bedroom. It has a bay window which is upvc and the top of the frame meets the ceiling of the alcove part where the bay window is if that makes sense. I want to put the curtain tracking up but don't know where to fix it. There...

Hi. We bought a 1930's house last year and every room needs doing. We started with my son's room and took it back to bare walls and got it all plastered etc. I wanted to put new skirting boards in and someone said try uPVC as its less maintenance, so we did. My brother told me to bond it to the...

Hi Everyone I am currently DIYing the toilet under the stairs. I have got all the old plaster of the walls and I am going to plaster board it. I've decided not to get it plastered after as its only a small room. We are going to paint the top half and tile the bottom. Obviously we are going to...