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Hello, first gardening query! We have a downward sloping garden its currently patio, lawn - slopes from about a 3rd of the way down, borders and some large conifers on either corner at the bottom then a wooden fence. Garden is approx 10m wide, 12m long and difference in levels is about...

Thanks for that guys. Yesplasterboard is at it's worst behind the hob so will probably have dried out as suggested! I think I'll get him back on the job but will take some convincing think he see's his option as being less mess as tiling shards going everywhere with his method but would rather...

Hello I'm back again on this one as have hit a problem in removing these tiles - they were OK on the window wall though slow going no sheets of tiles removed very lucky if they came off whole now we have removed some behind the hob which is on an exterior wall but removing them is taking huge...

Cheers guys yes goggles a must! will tackle this at weekend then.

Thanks guys, have informed hubby to make this safe and have rung round the local electricians have 2 coming tonight! Cheers, Sarah

Quick question what is the best way to remove old tiles from kitchen walls. We removed some with hammer and scraper when removing a paper wall but could do with a cleaner more acurate solution. Trying to avoid damaging walls or plaster! The electric points seem to be screwed in over the...

Hello, bit of really basic help needed. We have just taken down the wall between kitchen and dining room in preparation for expanding the kitchen into the dining room - large kitchen diner lovely. (Paper wall in 10 year old house!) Currenly have two seperate light fittings one old strip...

But then they will find all their christmas pressies!

Yeah I could do it but then who'd keep the kids from climbing up the ladder to the loft and please don't say hubby!!

Thanks will get hubby to do all this. Cheers.

Hello can anyone help???

Hi guys, have followed advice and here are observations... Get torch, go in loft, see how many water tanks (cisterns) you have up there. Probably one big one (for taps) and one small one (for boiler). Yes we have both Look under their lids and see if one of them is so full as to be...

Many thanks guys, I'll do as you say tonight and get back to you. Cheers, snewman

hello - any help gratefully received as have so far not been able to get a plumber to even call me back on this! Couple of weeks back we had a powercut when I had the hot water heating up. We have a potterton boiler will be 10 years old so far worked OK. Came home after a hour or so of elec...

Brilliant thanks very much, here's to a good weekend, fast drying paint and beer and chocolate to keep going!

Hi third_eye thats fabulous so we can use the extra satinwood on the doorframes that have already got paint on - shall we give them a little sand down they are in good condition despite probably not being painted for last 10 years. House is 10 years old and nothing else seems to have been done...

Thanks third -eye can you tell me is the Acrylic based Primer/ Undercoat one product or two seperate products? Also any idea how much primer/ undercoat/ satinwood I'm going to need to do 50 - 60 metres? Thanks!

Hello again, now that we re-skirted our house (thanks to help from you guys here on tools method etc!) they are on the wall, filled in gaps and have knotted all the knotts or notts twice to be sure? We now need to paint them. So far I've checked posts and there is no definitive guide to...

Thanks Tozzy sounds like you got some good bargains. I'm off to Homebase today!

Help please! We are just about to replace the skirting boards in our small 3 bed semi – 10 years old. Current skirting boards tiny and been abused so they are all off and down the tip that’s the easy part done. Now onto the difficult bit I’m not sure what tools we will need to do this. I’ve...