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Morning all I have made some metal railings that I am wanting to fix into the coping stones. I understand that traditionally once the railings were fitted into the holes that the holes would then be back filled with molten lead. I dont fancy messing about with molten lead. Apparently a resin...

Hi all Last winter we had a few damp marks appear around the chimney breast at the top of the wall and coving in a first floor room. I have tried to seal it so I can paint over and have used Zissner BIN which didnt work and then Dulux Damp Seal Primer and Undercoat. Both have had a couple of...

Hi all I have a 3/8th's compression fitting from a coffee machine that I need to connect to a 15mm pipe. There is a 15mm isolation valve in there at the moment but the only 15mm - 3/8ths isolation valve I have is a flat face on the 3/8ths side. Wasnt really game to try the fitting on a flat...

Morning all We are decorating a downstairs room. I removed the old wallpaper which just pulled off in full sheets It has left patches of old paint behind in places and others it is down to bare plaster. Do I need to remove all the old paint or just the edges that are flaky? I will be...

Morning all, hope you had a good Christmas. Gas heating system with hot water tank upstairs. Hot water is set for three times a day, morning, lunch and tea time. We don't use loads of hot water but now and again in a morning the water is only tepid. It's after the hot water should have been...

A bit of help please We have a chimney breast in out Victorian house that needs a bit of repointing here and there. As it's an internal wall would it be OK to use regular mortar or do I need to use a lime based mortar? Cheers

Evening, in the process of replacing an open fire with a wood burner and the plaster was stripped off the breast. We have found that the back wall of the fire doesn't look like it's tied in to the rest of the fire place and wall and the right hand side of the breast isn't tied in either. Any...

Morning I am building a pizza oven outside and will be using bricks on the visible parts and wanted to use concrete blocks round the back and sides which wont be seen. The concrete blocks will still be open to the elements and I have been told that I will need to render them as they cant be...

Hi hopefully someone can help me out with this I have a property which is up for sale but is currently vacant. I dont want to turn the heating off over winter as it isn't very inviting to walk into a stone cold house. It is a relatively new house (built 2011) so is fairly well insulated, the...