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Hi We've been having a problem with water getting in in the window recess as you can see from the pictures. We have checked outside and nothing seems to be amiss with the pointing and we've had a roofer check out the roof tiles etc and they can't seem to see any broken ones etc. They've said...

Hi About a year ago my partner and I had some minimal decoration done to our kitchen, it is our first house and the kitchen was very old fashioned so we did minimal stuff, Work tops, new tiling etc. it's about all we could afford at the time but looking around now there's some things we should...

Hi My partner very daringly (!) just chose to remove all of the above wires from the shown fitting and didn't make a note of what went where. We are trying to put on a new chandelier light fitting but now would just settle for everything going back to where it should be so that we can give in...

Hi I recently had my ceiling skimmed and left it about two weeks to dry out. We then put on two mist coats and then two layers of paint. Unfortunately this was done in a hot and sunny room, whereby it was drying very quickly. Its either hot and sunny in there or too dark to paint! We are...

Hi I have recently had my bedroom replastered and have painted the walls. There are definite patches on the walls where I painted the paint samples and even though the walls have had two coats. I can't seem to get rid of the textural difference where the paint samples were. You can't see the...

Hi Still on my spare bedroom decoration and I had a number of cracks and holes to fill before painting. I used polyfilla on the holes and poly cell brush on liquid hairline crack filler for the cracks. As you can see from the pictures despite hours of sanding a bump through the paint...

Hello, I am currently redecorating my spare bedroom, nothing too elaborate just trying to achieve a nice paint finish which is proving difficult. I have encountered some cracks around the window frame in the plaster and these were filled with cracking paint and many layers of old caulk which...

Hi This is my first post on this forum so please be kind! I am trying to make good some old door frames and skirting boards in my new house (taken a bit too much on!) they seem to be layered thick with paint and old caulk which is now all built up and cracking and peeling and gross. I...