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We are changing all the light switches and sockets in our living room which is inside a house built in the 1970's and so has pre 2004 wiring colours. I took the light switch off and had a look at the wiring - there was only a red (live) and black (neutral) attached to the back of the old...

We had two walls skimmed recently as they were in really poor condition but the other walls seemed okay - they had never been painted but had wallpaper on them which we removed. I did a mist coat on all the walls (one coat) using a matt white with about 30% water 70% paint. The newly...

I am completely new to anything like this. We are renovating our living room and had a plasterer come in and skim over 3 rough/chipped walls. They look good and smooth now, but when I asked his advice re prepping and painting them, he said that after they have dried, sand them down then use use...

I know these are easy to change/swap over but...we are planning on swapping our plain white light switches and wall sockets to brushed aluminium style ones. My question is, when buying new wall sockets, is the position of the switches on the sockets important? We have a double socket for...

We have steamed off most of the wallpaper in our new flat's living room. Under some of the paper, the walls are like this.. I've never seen an interior wall like that before, all other walls I have painted have already been emulsioned - this doesn't appear to be and is a very smooth...

We have removed all the wallpaper in our new flat's living room. 2 walls are fine but underneath the others is this... I used a steamer to remove the wallpaper from the walls, on the 2 walls it came off no problem but on the walls in the photos it was a struggle. Underneath there seems...