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I have a board on my kitchen ceiling which appears to be sagging, I believe that this may just be due to me removing strip lighting and the fixings mush have been helping to hold the board in place. Can I simply (?) remove this board and replace it with another? If so is it just regular...

It was just a cheap white focus emulsion (as an undercoat on the plaster), then an ordinary crown emulsion.

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Are there any products out there which will allow you to paint over marble? We have a peach marble fire back and hearth, which now does not match the rest of the room. The wall ahve been freshly plastered and the onlt way to remove the marble would be to take off the fire surround but the...

Hi, We recently had our dinning room replastered. There were a couple of points in this room where the plaster had to be applied extremely thickly. I have since painted this room but in the places where the plaster went on thick there is obvious damp coming through. Is this because these...

I have a problem. We have a flat roof on our kitchen, the ceiling above the back door has dropped, so the door is now (just) scraping the ceiling. However there is no sign of damp (no marks or wetness etc). We have been in the house 10 month and you can see that this section of the ceiling has...

Hi, We recently had our dinning room replastered. There were a couple of points in this room where the plaster had to be applied extremely thickly. I have since painted this room but in the places where the plaster went on thick there is obvious damp coming through. Is this because these...

I have just done similar and I bought a couloured silicone to fill these gaps (when fitting I let the gap around these part to 5mm or less for a better finish). You can get this silicone to match either your floor or woodwork?

Thankyou very much for your reply. Yes according to your description it is my RCD which has tripped and not the MCB (which means nothing to me I'm afraid!). I'm sorry to say that it is not a modern house and I do not believe I have a MCB (what does that stand for?) marked cooker in my...

I have a combination cooker (gas hob, electric oven), we moved into our house about 10 months ago, when I put the cooker in I simply put a plug in it and plugged it into a normal socket. Last night when tryng to use the oven the trip switch went, on investigation we isolated the problem to...

This is my third posting in as many days - I've just bought a house and am finding many problems! It looks like i need the cement replaced between the stones on the side of my house - where the chimney is behind the wall (and the chimney as well). Does anyone know if this will be an expensive...

Thanks for everyones comments, they where very helpful. I think I will try to hack the skirtings off (need a new heating system and going to get the pipes to run behind the skirtings), drinning down behind then to try and avoid too much damange to the wall. Thanks again everyone.

I have recently bought a house, the seller had a damp proof course fitted to some of the walls, however I do not think that the damp has gone? I do have a garentee for the work but fear the supplier will try to get out of it. Any Ideas? Also some of the other walls also appear to be damp. I...

Hi, I have recently moved into a new house which has concrete skirtings. Some of these skirtings were removed so a damp proof course could be installed, however some walls still have the concrete skirtings in tact. I want to remove these concrete skirtings and fit replacement wooden...