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Apologies if this is the wrong forum. Recently one of my concrete window sills started to crumble and needed replaced - not a job for me, so I got a builder to do it. It looks like he's done a decent job except he's left a gap of about 5mm under the sill as seen. I quizzed him about whether I...

Hi all, Recently we've had the walls replastered. In the pics you can see that the plaster comes down the wall so far then you're into masonry. http://imgur.com/a/hhmnj We were thinking of getting pre-finished MDF skirting to put on, my question is what would be the best way of doing...

Hi all, We got a room re-plastered and the first coat of paint (after sealing) revealed a few more little digs and cracks than we thought. We have them filled and sanded but my question is that when we put the next coat on will they be really obvious? Or is there something I should do to them...

Hi all. We've just had our walls skimmed with a new coat of plaster. After letting it all dry we've attempted to seal it with a mist coat of white emulsion thinned with water. Does this look like it should? http://imgur.com/P1mDv9m There's a big patch there you can see where the paint...

Hi all, I'm fitting a new rad in a room and long story short the valve on one side isn't reaching the corresponding adaptor. The rad is level according to my spirit level - one side matches up to the valve on the feed pipe fine, but for some reason the return pipe is a bit on the short side...

Hi all, first post so go easy! We just bought a house recently and whoever did the laminate flooring in the living room did a questionable job of it - tongue and groove non-click system, not actually glued together, no expansion gap around the edges - and we've decided to replace it. The...