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Yesterday on the recommendation of a local Facebook group I bought some Crown Fast Flow and did a test patch overnight. It's harder to use but looks a lot better. I've just painted all the woodwork again and it looks to have passed the wife test (even if I did realise I'd missed a bit after...

Help, I'm going mad with this. I'm trying to paint all the woodwork on the stairs with white satinwood paint but no matter what I do it ends up with dark streaks in it. The wood was new pine (untreated) painted with two coats of white stain and knot blocking primer. I'm up to 5(!) coats of...

To update we had the plate heat exchanger replaced yesterday and now the problem appears to be fixed. Managed to run two baths without the tap going cold. Not sure if that means it's only a matter of time for the main heat exchanger to go or not?

I had to do the same job in my small downstairs office about 6 years ago. I was advised to do different things on different online forums so I'm not sure if I did it 'right' in the end. My sill plate had completely rotten away for about 2 metres. I cut it at the point where it was still solid...

Sorry, completely misunderstood. I've just done that and didn't get any water come through

No - the hot and cold feeds to the downstairs shower are tee'd off the run to the upstairs bathroom. Sounds like it could be a strong possibility given where it is in the pipework It's an old mira thermostatic shower although I did change the thermostatic cartridge on it a few years ago. Is...

House is 1920's, the downstairs pipework is about 15 years old and the upstairs is 2 years old. No mixers anywhere on the pipework except the showers. Bath tap is two lever style taps (one hot and one cold).

Over the last month I've noticed that the bath tap in the upstairs bathroom will go stone cold every couple of minutes for about 30 seconds. The only way to get hot back out is to turn the cold off and the hot to maximum and then after about 30 seconds it goes back hot again. It doesn't seem to...

This was the right answer, all sorted now. Thanks.

Also if it's mid terrace and nothing was put on the party walls you'll probably have a single skin of leaky brickwork into the neighbouring lofts, in the summer those lofts will get very hot and in the winter be almost as cold as outside. Might be solvable by ripping off the plasterboard on...

I've just installed karndean in my hallway but not loving the carpet to solid floor thresholds I bought. I bought these https://www.diy.com/departments/goodhome-decor-10-silver-effect-carpet-to-flooring-trim-l-93cm/3663602529538_BQ.prd And they are the right height on the carpet side but...

Would be ideal but there's not many floorboards I can lift - there are block work partition walls built off all the floorboards to separate the hall from all the rooms. Would require lots of cutting the boards and I think my wife would kill me if I delayed the floor much more :LOL:

I'm finally going to finish decorating the house after 10 years (although I will probably need to redo the living room soon) and want to put karndean in our Hall because we had a dog and toddler with pram so carpet would just get wrecked. I've previously installed the loose lay product in our...

We have a karndean click flooring in our dining room that has been down for about 6 years, it's laid over 6mm ply on top of floorboards. One of the planks in the centre of the room has developed a dip and this has led to the edge coming away slightly and the top layer chipping off. I've got a...

I've not got the clearance under the worktop to do that but am just thinking that I could cut the board that the rear feet are sitting on and replace with a paving slab. It wouldn't help the front but might be enough maybe?

We have a floating bamboo floor under our washing machine and it causes it to vibrate like mad and make a lot of noise. The machine will also stop during the spin cycle with an error. Floor is 1930's concrete, then self levelling compound, then foil insulation, then the boards. The machine has...

That’s a really poor tiling job plus the sealant in the corner and round the bath looks terrible. I wouldn’t be surprised to find water had been getting through. The sloping floor could just be because of age/movement rather than rot. When mine failed the whole floor bounced as you walked across...

Would something like Zinsser BIN work?

Just getting ready to order a carpet for our newly built office and had a question - There is a small (1.2m x 1m) walk in cupboard that I want to carpet, should I have a door bar under the cupboard doors or just run the carpet in?

Glad it's not just me! Not sure what the point of that is as it makes it harder to take a reading.