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WOW!!!! Thankyou!! Read your reply last night, and whether it was because I was tired, or because I'm a "recycled teenage" Grandma - - - felt it was VERY technical!!! Up with a sparkle this morning, and understand completely! Have printed your instructions off, will put on my glad rags, and try...

I have a very old hospital bedside table. It has an "L" shaped support so that the bottom can slide under a bed. This bottom section, in cast iron, has 4 "feet". One of these has sheered off. The break is about 3cm wide. I have tried using Araldite to mend it, but need something stronger as it...

Thankyou for great info, but the bumpiness is mainly due to some cracking and weight of furniture - - and would,I guess, need some form of leveller before,say, carpeting or lino. However, we've decided that a floating floor is the best option and I suppose what I'm really asking about is - can...

Still looking for an answer to covering a bitumen floor!! My daughter needs to cover 50sq metres of bumpy old bitumen. So far --- floating laminates -not too keen on the look; floorboards on batens ---- a possibility though it will raise the floor level quite a bit; Solid flooring ----- too...

Brilliant! Thanks! Am off to get the train back down to London for another stint of stripping, scrubbing and prep!!!!! Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be on to the floor. Will struggle to check this forum, but will try to get to a computer again before I start - just in case!!!!!!!!!!!

I had just been thinking along the same lines, wondering if a good floor polish would work. Trouble is - I can't see my daughter polishing her floor as I did years ago on my mother's liino!!!!! Your idea sounds like a much better bet! I'm still hoping someone might know of a product which...

Oh dear! Doesn't sound too promising - such a shame 'cos whenever I scrub it (layers of dirt!!) and it's wet, it looks really dramatic. Any other thoughts would be much appreciated, Pat

Our daughter has just bought a flat with bitumen floors. She would like to leave them exposed and sealed with a gloss finish. We are struggling to find out what she can use. Would floor varnish work? Pat ('n Doug)