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The exposed stone interior walls of my house have been painted white (or maybe whitewashed). Any ideas how I can get rid of the paint/whitewash and return the walls to their natural state? Thanks

Hello, I have an old stone house, which also has a whitewashed stone ground floor interior, i.e. no render. The house is on a slope, the cellar walls at the front and one side of the house are fully underground, and have a render in parts, although this is in a fairly bad state, the other two...

I'm planning to remove a radiator from my pressurised system. Presumably (after switching off the system and draining) I can just cap off the two copper pipes with suitable compression fittings. At my local DIY place they told me I could just fold the copper pipes over instead of putting on...

I attempted to remove and cap off a water pipe that fed a wash basin. Bought the compression fitting, turned the mains water off, started cutting and discovered that the pipe was iron or lead, not copper. The pipe is quite inaccessible, so I can't cut a thread onto it and cap it off, and the...

My neighbours have built a wall parallel to mine, small gap between filled with polystyrene. Unfortunately, before they put their roof on, we had heavy rain and it seems that lots of water has gone into the gap, the plaster on my wall is soaked through. They have now put their roof on so no more...

I've 'made to measure' some shelving out of MDF for my dining room. This is going to be attached to the wall. So far it looks pretty good if I say so myself. I plan to paint it but I'd like to decorate it a bit, giving it a plinth, cornice and other decorative trim made of real wood. I can't...

I removed an interior wall on the top storey (below the attic) of my house which contained the electrics for that floor - once the wall was removed the cables and switches were left suspended in the middle of the room, coming up through floorboards from the floor below, and going up into the...

I have removed an internal wall in my house, it contained all the electric cables for higher floors of the house. They are hanging down from ceiling to floor in the middle of the room at the minute and I'd like to move them to one side so they go down one of the remaining walls of the room...