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Hi, Our radiator pipes come out the wall (see image). This limits the height of our skirting, it means the skirting has to be under 85 cm which is small by today's standards. Does anyone have any suggestions on how we could get around this without moving the radiator pipes? On another note -...

Hi. Took your suggestion and gave it a good stir before second coat and it has gone on much better. Thanks for help!

Hi. I bought some sadolin superdec white satin to paint my garage window after reading great reviews. Says on the tin it covers everything. I painted the first coat today and it’s like nothing has been painted on. The paint looked translucent when doing on. What did I do wrong? Pictures below.

Hi. It’s definitely an opaque colour but I was led to believe stain can also be opaque? I am going to give superdec a try. It says on the website it can cover stain or paint!

Hi Sparkwright. Stupid question but how can I tell if existing is stain or paint? I just assumed it was paint as it’s peeling off?

Ok thank you very much John. Do you have any recommendations for water based fence or shed stain and adhesive glazing tape or glazing compound?

I thought it was paint rather than stain? Otherwise why is it peeking like that? Yeh it is old. Any newer alternatives to putty?

Hi - please can I have some advice. What sort of paint should I be using to paint my summerhouse? It currently looks like this. Should I be looking at something like Dulux Weathershield or a shed paint? I also need to reputty the windows. Do I do this before or after painting? Thanks!

Thanks. Do I let the pva dry like a primer before I fill?

Hi, I have stripped the wallpaper off one of my rooms and found the below. How do I remedy this? Can I cut the bulge out and fill with Toupret interior?

Thanks a lot! I’ll go with leaving them in place. Do we need to level off any chips in the tiles? They are in fairly good condition however there is a chunk out of 1 of them you might be able to see in the photo where I pulled an old nail out.

Thanks to both of you

That makes sense but then how to I transition 2 rooms where 1 floor is going to end up 4-5cm higher?

Thanks. If I leave it though how can I make sure the rooms join nicely? How will a room divider work with 2 different levels?

Hi all, We have taking up an old engineered wood floor that was damaged and uncovered an old tiled floor (see pictures). What would you do in this situation? Would you take up the tiled floor or leave it? We haven't decided whether to go carpet or wood again (it's a study) however my main...

Thanks!!

Hi. We don’t want coving. Just to understand if this is the plasterers fault and needs to be fixed. Feedback from the plasterer is that tidying this up is the decorators job however the cracks are all along the top some a few MM wide and have a hollow sound above the crack. On top of that on...

Hi, We recently had a room skimmed. On the coldest wall (other side is garage) the wall has started developing cracks (see photos) near the top of the wall close to the ceiling. Is this normal? Is this just a case of fill and move on or is it something more worrying? Thanks, Andy

Hi all, Apologies for bringing this up again but I have had quite a few unsuccessful attempts and am stuck on what to do next with this situation. We have just had this window board replaced. In this picture you can see the 2 gaps under the existing vertical quadrants. In this picture you...

Perfect thanks mate. Will have a look at replacing that once the skim has dried in the room.