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Hi just stripped a room of wallpaper for skim and found a large section of what looks like latex paint. It seems to be bonded well to the wall. It blisters when steamer is in contact with it. Do I need to remove this before skim. Cheers

Right here is my new kitchen, took me about 5 months as I am just a diyer. This was by far the most involved project I have ever done and my first kitchen. The walls etc where a mess and only a complete back to brick job was going to do the trick and I simply could not afford to pay someone...

Decided to plaster spare room with the help of brotherinlaw. First attempt at plasering full wall. Slapped on the first coat that I mixed, looking good. Brotherinlaw mixed second coat and I slapped that on the wall and got flat. "MMMmmm whats that in the plaster?" Lots of little flakey...

I'm now in the process of replacing kitchen and now want to fit a smiths ss5w hydronic plinth heater and I want to fit a room stat. The problem I have got is I dont like the stat that smiths sells and I also dont like the price of it. Would any thermostat rated at 230 volts do the job? The...

In the middle of bonding my first wall (going to be a late night) and so far so good after feathering off, just waiting for the bonding to set a bit before removing batton and filling. The problem I have got is i am not sure when I should devil/scratch the bonding. I am worried that if I...

Had a read of the forum and have got lots of useful info from you guys but i still need a bit of advice on skimming over dry browning. I am doing kitchen at the moment and need to build up the walls (one dry brick, one light breeze block and other two exterior walls a mix of...

Hi, fitting a new kitchen soon and want to fit plinth led lighting, looking at led blue light 12volt system (decking lighting). The thing is I want the plinth lighting to come on automatically with a motion sensor so when someone comes into the kitchen at night the kitchen is lighted slightly...

Hi did a quick search and could not find the answer that I am after, wonder if you guys can help. Im about ready to embark on getting my heating replaced and im looking into the possibility of getting it done as a homer off a worcester bosch corgi field engineer. Im just wondering as it will...

Hi wondering if you can help Im planning a heating system for my 3 bed one bathroom semi. I want to fit a condensing worcester greenstar 30cdi to the house, but where the boiler will sit (upstairs) is no where near a drain/waste and it would take over 3 metres of external codensate piping to...