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What is best advice for lookiing after my new leather 3-piece suite ?
Hope to be getting a new leather 3-piece suite soon. Salesmen keep pressuring me into buying their store's leather maintenance kits, which are all relatively expensive. Can someone please advise me what is the best leather maintenance for 3-piece suites. Cheers
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Any advice welcome
Hi everybody. I am just posting a quick question and hope that somebody might be able to help in some way or another. Basically, I have discovered a rather worrying crack appear behind the radiator in my daughters bedroom wall. The crack starts at the top of the skirting board and travels up to the window ledge. The crack…
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Lead paint testing kit
Hi, Does anyone know where i can get a lead paint testing kit from? as we have moved into a new home and was built in 1940's and have stripped wallpaper to reveal old paint and just want to make sure that it's not lead Thanks x
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My aim is to save you money
Sorry i didnt know, removed.
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How hard is it to fit a splashback in a fitted kitchen
Just wondering how hard it is to fit a splashback behind the oven once the kitchen has already been fitted? how would you go about doing this? thank you
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Solid Bamboo Flooring - Underlay & Adhesive?
afternoon all - my husband is going to be laying solid tongue and groove bamboo flooring. the floor is going over planks & plywood. it's going in a kitchen, lounge, dining room, snug, conservatory, entrance way. any suggestions for underlay and adhesive?
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Help!! Stuck on toilet seat!!
My toilet seat is stuck-on ;) It is horrible( inherited from previous owner) and I have a new one ready to replace it. I have tried to spray the long plastic screw fittings and the nut (?) thing with WD40 but they are stuck fast. I have tried wiggling the seat around to try and loosen it, to no avail. In addition, there is…
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Help! Factor Problems / Absentee LandLords / Common Insurance
Hi everyone. Long time Lurker here, springing into action. Hoping someone can advise what to do next. I'm at a loose end with two issues i'm banging my head against with my factors. I live in a block of six flats in Central Scotland. All ex-local authority, and all privately owned. Factor is a local housing association,…
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Bird Bath
thinking of getting my mum a bird bath for her 60th. I would like something natural looking preferably stone rather than something carved to perfection or made of plastic. Any suggestions?
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Dodgy Washer - was I overcharged?
Hi all Not sure if this in the right section but I'm sure a kind mod will move it if it's not. My washing machine had been banging for a month or so. My dad recommended a guy who came down and had a look. We thought it might be the bearings but turned out it was the suspension. He looked underneath it at the front, told me…
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Repairing windows
Hi, Not too sure who to call so I'm sure a helpful forumite can help me. I have two double glazed windows that need repairing. The first is a tilt and turn window which isn't catching at one of the corners when you tilt it, so only ends up being attached at one corner :eek: So I need someone to fix the window so it catches…
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Hoover on it's way out, recommendations?
Hi, I seem to have no luck at all when it comes to hoovers, I have been 4 in 6 years, this one has lasted just over 3 so not too bad, but now it's starting to fail, the suction has dropped right off despite being a cyclone one and all the filters being washed and cleaned, and the attatchment fittings keep falling off mid…
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Disposing of Superlux
Hi there, I'm currently getting an extension built and the soffits need to come out. After a bit of conjecture and calls to the company who built the house it's been confirmed the soffits are made of 'Superlux' and not asbestos. Can anyone tell me how to dispose of it/ I've googled it but nothing is jumping out at me. Can…
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Window alarms
I am looking at buying some window alarms but my window frames are bevelled where they meet and therefore are not flush,is there a way around this.
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Has anyone used Bal Rapidbase self levelling compound?
We need the sun room floor levelling ready for carpet tiles. At present it has ceramic tiles, a couple have chips or cracks in them and one or two have blown. We had a builder round who said we could carpet tile directly over these ceramic tiles but we're not too keen on that. He's busy and couldn't do the job for a couple…
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Sliding wardrobe doors
We are looking to install mirror sliding wardrobe doors to go from wall to wall and I wonder if anyone has used the B and Q cheap ones, or Wickes, or the more expensive ones from a company called Deanes Direct?
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Dishwasher Recommendation Please?
Am looking for a new dishwasher, just fed up of our Hotpoint breaking down, then again with the same thing, its had five new displays & pcb's, and the hassle of waiting in for the engineer at the two hour slot they say, Service contracts are ok, but i'd just like it to stay fixed! Heard that Bosch & SMEG dishwashers are…
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Bi fold doors - any recommendations in Bucks/Berks area?
Please can anyone recommend some timber bi-fold / folding-sliding doors? And even better, know how we can see some?! We need to purchase several sets for our new-build house, but are really struggling to see samples of doors as many of the suppliers are northern based and do not have southern show rooms! Having looked…
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Paint mixing question
I've had some Crown paint mixed today at my local hardware shop & it required a pale base. The colour was Whisper of Egyptian Sand. When the guy looked for the 5 litre 'pale base' in silk emulsion they didn't have any so he was instructed to use the 5 litres of white emulsion instead & I was told this would be exactly the…
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Leather Recling Sofas - Re Padding?
I have a 2 seat and 3 seat leather sofas. They were bought from MFI but a couple of the seats have gone flat, so I was wondering if they can be repadded? The padding appears to be held in by woven straps. Grateful for any advice Darren
