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Hi there. I need some help please...! Can someone please suggest the best way to remove white masonry paint from patio/stone? I painted the house white and some has fallen on the floor below. Tried white spirit and it was useless, so was a jet wash. And now reckon I need something a lot...

Hi all. Just looking for some advice, please. I have bought this door: https://www.diy.com/departments/4-panel-etched-frosted-glazed-oak-veneer-lh-rh-internal-door-h-1981mm-w-686mm/42601_BQ.prd I need it to be white to match the room. Initially I thought it'd be easily done in the same way...

Hi. I am having my kitchen plastered tomorrow and I've spent all weekend trying to get all the paper off the wall. It was a horrible green paint gloss over underlining paper under another sort of paper or paint. Really hard to tell. It wouldn't come off with a steamer or spray so I have had to...

Hi, I have lots of woodwork to paint; door frames, skirting boards, doors, etc. The door frames already have paint on them and so do the skirting boards on the stairs. The skirting boards in the rooms are new and plain wood with no paint (but for a few drips) all shown on the images below. We...

Hi. My kitchen is in need of a huge overhaul. However, I want to do half the job now and half the job later to save on cost for now as I have lots of other home jobs to pay for. So I want to; - Strip the kitchen down to its shell - Get damp proof works done - Replastered and painted - Bring...

Hi. So, this is a common problem right? That damp gets mistreated by damp proofing when damp showed on the walls? It’s happened to us. After all the snow and rain recently, I’ve just noticed a big patch of moisture up the corner of our living room wall. We had it proofed and plastered about 5...

Hi. I have £6000 to do some work to my home with, but I’m wondering how best and how efficiently to do the work. I need a whole range of jobs; fitting skirting boards, putting up blinds and curtains, painting skirting boards and cupboards, hacking off paint and wallpaper, on top of fitting...

Hi there. I ripped up the carpet on a house I bought three months ago and have been doing lots of work to the house. It's very dusty! Eventually, I'll lay new floor, but for now I just want to lay down rugs over the floorboards downstairs so we don't have to walk around with shoes on all the...

Hi. I have to paint; Skirting boards Cupboard doors Draws They are all painted on at the moment, so I’m looking to sand them down, prime them and then paint them. Is that OK? Re sanding; can I buy an orbital sander and use this on all of the above? Or am I best to sand by hand? I had a go...

Hi. I have a back boiler and it needs replacing for a new combi boiler. How much should I expect that to set me back? £4K-£5k? And is it wise to go to a local independent gas company or shall I be safe with British Gas? Wanting to pay on finance... Thanks.

Hi there. I had my boiler fixed yesterday, and had my radiators taken off the wall a few weeks ago to allow for renovation works to take place. The gas engineer says I can't have hot water because the radiators aren't capped off. They are closed off, with a minor hissing leak coming from the...

Hi there I’m putting the second coat on my walls tomorrow after sealing and first coating. 1) The ceiling has had its second white coat today and is complete. I want to cut in the wall with blue paint but want to get the edges neat, where the wall meets the ceiling. Can I put tape on the...

Hi there. I turned my water valve off before going on holiday. I've returned today, turned the valve back on, but there is no water in the taps, or in the toilet to flush. I've checked the loft and the water is full in the water container. Have I done something wrong? Thanks.

I've had to replace a few floorboards in my bedroom. I've replaced them with these Wickes white wood boards. However, as you can see, the gap that remains is thinner in width than the other six that have been filled. I have two more floorboards unused. Can I just saw one of them in half...

hi there. My plasterer is going to sand and cement our walls and has asked me to hack off all the plaster to the brick. On one of the walls there was cement rather than plaster so I've been asked to take all that off too. I've taken it off above the window and it's exposed a wooden block with...

Hi there. I'm expecting the worst here, but my Baxi Bermuda 50/5 back boiler isn't igniting. The gas is working, because it's feeding the cooker. I turn the temperature gauge and it flicks with the igniter but never alights. The actually fire does ignite, but the boiler won't. So without...

Hi there. I've been quoted £4,700 for damp proofing work to take place downstairs in my house. All the downstairs rooms are affected by the damp. £1,500 of this quote includes "Specialist Rendermix re-plastering". I was planning on replastering the walls anyway, to get rid of the wallpaper...

Hi, I'm removing plaster from my walls and came across this brown stuff / hair(?) in the plaster. It's not very widespread, but pops up every now and then. Does it look like asbestos or horsehair? Many thanks.

Third floorboard-related post from me in the last 24 hours and have received great advice so far. Next question, as I look to renovate these floorboards, why are some of them green? I'm worried it's mould and in that case I suppose I'll need new ones. Once sanded and varnished, would they...

Hello. I'm looking to restore the old floorboards in my living room. I ripped up the carpet and found that the previous owner had replaced the fireplace with a concrete slab and there's also a block of wood where floorboards could've been. I want the room to be entirely floorboards, but how...