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It really does sound like the paint is still wet and believe me if the wall is wet even a week later it can still be tacky. Tedious I know.

Hi I have an old Seat Arosa 52 plate, which after a few minor annoyances after purchase I have managed to put back together in a very pleasing fashion with a bit of help and she (Uma) drives very well. After personally doing the brakes the engine management light came on and it was the...

I am less drunk today, and can offer not much more advice than before really! I have just bought a late 1940s/early 1950s semi which looked like a major cosmetic overhaul and has become a back to brick shell money pit. One of the contractors that came out to survey the mildly disconcerting...

Can I jump on this band wagon and say if anyone knows of anywhere in Worcs or Glos that I would be tres interested also. I just keep ending up in Sheds out of laziness.

I will probably be shouted down by every man on this website, but if you think the inhibitor has managed to get in to the DHW (domestic hot water) circuit I would have thought there must be a leak in the internal coil in your DHW cylinder. If it is a fully indirect system then I think the hot...

You may just need to let the room dry out propely and kill off the mould before trying to cover it up. Most moulds need moisture, food and warmth to exist so if you bugger up one of those sources of joy you can murder it. Suffocation is probably the best course of action (damp-proofing paint...

Are you sure the paint on the other wall was dry? I had a problem in a regency basement flat where I painted the whole room, went for a glass or three of wine with the intention of doing a final inebriated coat on my return only to find every last stitch of paint on the carpet having run off the...

If that includes the actual door you will have **** doors, if it doesn't your contractor is mocking you. I am an idiot and I hung doors, fitted architrave etc from watching a Wickes 'how to' video so if I were you I would save the money and spend it on wine. My Jesus (carpenter and...

Lemon? On a serious note I will ask my husband when he wakes up. I just really wanted to say 'lemon'.

As a complete amateur, and probably incompetent danger to myself and others around me, I would just whack on a skim coat of plaster to make it look pretty/not as terrible, then have a glass of wine or two, then bang on the tiles once the skim coat was dry. In my EXTREMELY limited experience if...

I have have engaged my Gas Safe engineer to rip out the old GF and cap off under the floor in readiness for my kicking ten bells out of the 70s fireplace, he will come and do this on Saturday. I was going to ask him if he thought the old flue from the old gas fire (CF not BF) would do the job...

I genuinely do not understand how or why either of you have time to argue with someone thay have never met whether you work in an office or in any other building/workplace format. Thank you for the advice chaps... but seriously!

If I don't drop a flue liner in though would I not have to get the chimney swept etc regularly? I have been told all manner of horror stories about chimney fires too so I am a bit nervous about having an open chimney. :( So the inside of the builders opening can just be plastered normally? I...

I have never attempted pipework before, or indeed anything more than changing a tap and a bit of tiling where bathrooms are concerned! We are trying to do it all on a very tight budget so I am going to do all of the ripping out myself but I think you have made me feel better about getting...

Another one of my projects... We currently have a stunning 1970s stone clad fireplace with a coal effect gas fire that we want to get rid of before we move in to the new house. I have spoken to a gas fitter about removing the fire and capping off and making safe the gas supply for me before I...

We have just bought a house which needs an absolute ton of work. First on the agenda is the bathroom which was altered by previous owner to make it more accessible to his disabled wife. In doing so he removed the bath and fitted a large shower cubicle and moved the sink. We want to rip it out...

too drunk to listen even if my question is answered.