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Hey everyone, I have a garden room I need to paint - for which I already have the paint - Little Greene Masonry, in Invisible Green!.. The render has had the paint scraped off as it was peeling in places. New windows and doors were fitted too. So.. I have repaired as best as possible, but...

Hey guys, Our summerhouse is being renovated, and as part of this i'll want to repaint the front of it. It's currently painted in a mid grey textured Dulux Trade weathershield. There will be some making good where windows have been made bigger and a couple of cracks to the render. I was...

Hey guys, I've stripped some wallpaper off a wall in our house. It came off *very* easily, as in almost whole drops in one go. Underneath was mostly white emulsion, and some bits lilac (where I guess they had gone over the white before the paper). Wall looked okay, I sanded some lilac bits...

Hey guys, I had settled on the Johnsons Aqua Gard paint to paint our banisters, rail, doors etc. In white. Now my wife has suggested banister rails in a different colour to make it pop. I'm open to the idea but thinking if I did I would try Little Greene intelligent satinwood - I do think...

Guys, the silicone bead on one side of our bedroom window is starting to lift a little. Being attached to the window I don't really feel like removing it and redoing it... Is it possible to stick down some edges which have lifted? Or, a wider bead over the top, or, something else? Caulk seems...

Hey guys, I intend to paint my new bathroom ceiling in perma white matt, which I have already purchased and used before. It's just been freshly plastered, I'm unsure whether I should: A. Do a conventional mist coat of white emulsion paint, then two coats of perma white. B. Use Bullseye 123...

Was just about to pull the trigger on 15l of this sfuff to do the hallway, landing and a play room - high traffic areas with a couple of kids in the house (and me lol)... However, reviews seem mixed? I love using the (non diamond) matt for ceilings and as an undercoat, I assumed the diamond...

Guys, our entire house is painted in Valspar by the previous owner, the most hard wearing one. Thus far I have: 1. Painted Dulux Trade white matt over it 2. Valspar over valspar 3. Farrow and ball over it In most cases I sugar soaped the walls and cleaned off. In one case I didn't bother...

Back in the day I used to work in Focus, or Do It All for those oldskool enough to remember! I used to mix the Dulux stuff by hand and we had all the thousands of colours on the cards, 6 per card iirc. If I want Dulux diamond matt trade tinted how do I see the colours in the flesh - as you...

Hey guys, Our front door has some small hairline cracks on the panels, in some cases you can just sbout see daylight, eek. I'm thinking I can fill these? I'm just unsure what to use. Based on where it is on the door running a bead down from a tube of something and going over it eith a wet...

Hey guys, our bathroom is being redone, and half of the walls and the ceiling will need to be repainted. I'm not 100% sure what it was painted with before, but my best guess is Valspar K&B, it looks alright, no issues with the surface. Am I right in saying Eggshell is the best choice for a matt...

Guys, I'm considering some Floetrol as I have a lot of wood to paint with water based white satinwood... beyond this, is it worth using Floetrol with matt emulsion, either for walls or celing? - In the sort of conditions we have now, not the height of summer. Lastly, assuming kept in a frost...

I've only painted skirting with either no carpet, or rarely with a pretty thin/low pile carpet. We have this super thick carpet here, do people: 1. Masking tape on the carpet? (sounds like it would seep under it and be a hideous mess) 2. Use strong card, keep moving it along making sure not to...

Guys, recently moved into a new place which had a rather anxious puppy I think - it's basically eaten away the architrave in a couple of rooms. I've managed to cleanly get a section out, which I'll replace, however, I'm finding a bloody hard job to get an even close match! On initial inspection...

Guys, we've recently moved into a new place in which we intend to decorate. Fortunately it's mostly in really good condition (better than our old house!), but naturally when we repaint in a colour we prefer the skirting/architrave etc will look a bit naff - so - it needs a repaint. * Currently...

Guys, I'm quite keen to make my own vinyl storage unit, something along the lines of the Ikea Kallax idea, so essentially three 'cubes' wide by two height. Essentially build a rectangular frame being about 700mm in height, 900/1000mm wide, split in half horizontally, then vertically a few...

Hey Guys, The paint on one wall in our bathroom (the external wall) and ceiling is peeling a little in some places (see attached). I was thinking of sanding it back, using Zinsser Peel Stop and then using Zinsser Permawhite interior. Does this sound like a decent plan? It's not something I...

This may be a bit of a long story, bear with me...! So about three weeks ago we started to hear a beep in the house, three beeps, with quite long pauses between, which then happened quite regularly, like every 15 mins (but *not * exactly the same time apart). We went on holiday, have some back...

We're having new flooring and skirting installed, as part of this the old skirting needs to be removed (by us) and the surface ready to have skirting applied. I've just taken some off in the kitchen and some tiles have broken and some cement has come away. Pic attached. I've zero experience...

Hey guys, I'm looking to refelt my shed roof soon, as it keep blowing off and every time I nail it in a couple of places it gives again a few weeks later. Aside from just roofing tacks / clout nails when I redo it I was wondering if it was worth using grip fill on the overlap joins? It seems...