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Painting beginner
Hi I wish to paint my living room walls which are a lime green colour and want to paint a Matt soft grey colour looking for advice on best undercoat and then paint for greg colour
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A tap which leaks more when supply isolated
We have a downstairs kitchen tap which drips a little most of the time. Conscious of this when we went away a few weeks ago we shut the two valves, just pre sink hoses under the sink, which feed this tap. Guess what - this increased the water drippage and didn't stop for the full week! Fast forward to today and we have the…
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Euro lock jamming
I have just changed a euro lock on a front door, its the right size and turns freely when out of the door, but when fitted and the fixing screw is started to tighten it becomes difficult to lock or unlock, something is creating resistance.If the fixing screw is tightened fully the lock will not turn at all.I have tried…
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Garden help
Looking for garden tips on our newly moved into home. The garden is split into two and pictured is the second half. The two tree's are TPO on them, so they're staying, but what can I do cheaply, that could make this space not need hours of work at the weekends / get overrun. Longer-term we'd look to do something more…
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Can I install a wood floor and not bother the neighbour below?
Hi everyone, looking for a bit of advice. I recently bought a 1980s top floor flat. All rooms are carpeted, although the state of the carpet is poor and I'm looking to replace. I'd love to have real wood or some sort of panelled wood floor installed in the living room and hall, but I'd be concerned that the change of the…
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Recirculating downdraft extractor
Does anyone have any experience fitting a downdraft extractor fan on a recirculation basis? Particularly the type that go in the voids rather than requiring cutouts in the cabinet? In principle it seems relatively simple but struggling to get my head round how you actually do it in practice and YouTube only shows stylised…
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Which trade to replace an electric shower?
I have bought a new electric shower to replace our existing one. I’m hoping it should be a relatively easy job as its just a switch from one to the other. I don’t fancy DIYing it as I’m a bit paranoid about doing my own plumbing so I need to find a tradesman but who do I look for? Do I need an electrician who can do…
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Noise complaint from neighbour
Hi all, I bought my first property last November (a small end of terrace house) and have started renovating it over the past couple of months while living elsewhere. I'm doing everything I can myself but it tends to be a few hours a couple of weekdays days a week around my work. I've been removing a plasterboard wall in…
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A warning if you are thinking of planing the bottom of a door
I was asked to plane the bottom of a door to allow it to open and close easily on the installation of new carpet. It was a fire door at the front entrance to a second floor flat. The door had a kind of brush fitted in a groove down the edge to make a good seal and presumably to stop smoke in the event of a fire. Anyway, it…
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What tradesperson?
So we want to move the bathroom around to make it smaller to allow us to move our backdoor to make our kitchen work for us. We're thinking of doing it in stages, first we would need to put a wall up to make the bathroom smaller, the window will need to be moved and the bathroom will need to be done. Who do we need to…
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Painting - tips and tricks
Having recently bought my first house and sorted some of the issues, I was about to start painting and realised the last time I was able to choose my own wall colour was 20 years ago when I was a teenager at my parents' house (having been in rented shared flats since, so not allowed to redecorate). I have quite a few…
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Blinds (blackout) for patio french doors
Hi all, I know Ikea do some cheapo blackout blinds that can be stuck up and trimmed to size, but they aren't long enough for my french doors which are nearly 2m in height and 92cm across. There are dozens of bespoke blind companies out there doing made to measure and they can be rather pricey. Any MSE recommendations for a…
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Should I tip the builders?
A really lovely gang of builders (between 5 and 7 of them) have put up a flat pack home office for me, it has taken them just over 4 days. I have paid a lot to their head office, but what should I tip the lads? They have had to stay nearby. They had an extra 3 hours work after a communication error about where a door…
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Neighbour's boundary fence
Hi, I am looking to adopt a dog from a dog shelter and one of the stipulations for me to get one is to have garden fences that are at least six feet high. I have three boundary fences forming the boundary of the garden and two of them are six feet high but unfortunately one of them is only five feet high and this is the…
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Help needed with new boiler quotes and types
Hello I need advice on which route to take in terms of replacing my boiler. I have two quotes on the table. One by a private company and one with 0800 government scheme. Both involve removing of the existing water tank from the airing cupboard. The 0800 quote includes an ideal logic c30 boiler and two years warranty. I…
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Which Dehumidifier for drying clothes and general use?
I was thinking of buying a dryer for the utility room, given that we have 2 young children and a lot of laundry. Then I read around the forum and it seems that a heated clothes-horse or dehumidifier would be a better option. A dehumidifier could also be used around the house when there's no laundry to dry, so I would like…
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Victorian Solid walls and concrete render
Hey all... There is so much conflicting information online about the effects of concrete render on Victorian properties. The overriding opinion currently seems to be that Victorian solid wall properties require lime based render on the outside and inside walls to allow the brick work to properly breathe. This all sounds…
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Dehumidifier vs Tumble Dryer
Hello, Hope everyone has had a fantastic Christmas! So, of course it is that time of the year again. Winter, window condensation and a hard time drying clothes. We own an old washing machine, with a max spin of 1000 rpm. We also have a smidge of condensation on our windows on the coldest of days (once it gets to around 8…
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Clothes drying tent?
I have a dehumidifier which I use to dry washing but the smallest practical room that I use it in is quite large, is there a tent which I can put over both the drying rack and dehumidifier to lesson drying times?
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Rats in the loft
About six weeks ago I discovered fresh looking rat droppings in my loft, so I put down a couple of snap traps, and also installed an IR camera so I could see what I was dealing with. Within a couple of days I'd caught one, but the camera showed that there were at least two others. I put down an extra four traps (now six),…
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