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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

My meter cycles between two displays, one is the reading and the other looks like garbage. Any idea what the second is trying to show or if there is an issue with it?

I've got some upvc windows in a timber frame extension and the reveals are really shallow, only just deep enough for the handle and I can't fit blinds in to the recess. I was looking at perfect fit blinds but one of my windows is 1633mm wide (glass measurement) so not suitable. I can't put one...

This is supposed to be a large cupboard for storage but I've not been able to work out the best way to add doors, any ideas on how best to do it?

I've got a greenstar 28cdi compact that is almost 8 years old and on Friday it threw an error 227. I've had that error before when the condensate drain has been blocked so checked the whole run and couldn't find an issue. I turned it off a few times and eventually I heard a kind of popping...

I've got a double socket under the kitchen sink, it's actually an external weatherproof socket (BG WP22-01). We put that in 3 years ago because the last one failed when a bottle of carpet cleaner leaked in to the old one. Plugged in to this is a 4 socket extension that feeds out of the side of...

I need to remove three chipboard flooring boards from one edge of a bedroom, fix a big draft and then refit. The tongue and grooves were fixed with woodglue so I'm going to have to cut them (planning on using a multitool). What do I do to refit, just butt up against each other? Should I glue...

Just painted my bathroom and am a bit worried about the paint. The walls were bare plaster, done in Feb but not decorated until now. I was advised to seal the plaster first and used Gardz, waited 3 hours and then painted with Perma-white. That was a couple of days ago and today I went to...

I'm decorating my new bathroom at the moment and had to move the pipework for the new shower. I put the valve on the pipes to check for leaks in my soldering and didn't do it up tight enough, about 30 minutes after I turned the water back on the bar valve shot off the wall into the opposite...

We currently have a nest that has gone crazy and I've had to turn all the smart features off to stop it trying to heat the house at 3am. We've also got a new baby and need to make sure his bedroom is warm enough in the winter months throughout the night when we'd normally have the heating off...

I’m wanting to fit a towel radiator to the wall in our bathroom. The only suitable space is a plasterboard wall with and old chimney behind (dot and dab plasterboard). The chimney is tied in to two walls of the house and was taken below roof level years ago but not removed when we did our...

Going to be putting our new bath in our next bathroom shortly and had a few questions. The floor is 2.2m wide, joist centres between 350-420mm, floor is 18mm plywood and will be over boarded with a further 6mm plywood. Do I place the bath legs directly on this floor or do they need something...

We live at the bottom of a hill and all our sewerage flows directly into a manhole shared with our neighbour. This then runs about 4 metres in to a second manhole which connects to the main sewer and also houses further up the road. We have fairly frequent blockages which cause our toilet to...

The next project in my new extension is to decorate the bathroom. Currently the room is bare plaster with 18mm plywood floors. Lighting and ventilation are done. All the pipes are in the right place in the walls/floors. We want a karndean floor (or similar) which has to be laid on 6mm plywood so...