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Cost to paint a room this size
Hi Can anyone advise how much a painter might charge to paint a room the size: 18’7 (5.66) x 12’10 (3.91) including skirting and ceiling. Thanks!
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Can I make a door here?
I want to make a door to the kitchen from the hallway (Black Arrow), and build a wall separating the kitchen and through lounge (dashed lines). Building the wall should be done easily enough. The wall I want to knock through to make a door is a solid wall. I have a screenshot of how the existing wall looks in real life…
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Mould on Ceilings Won't Go Away
whatever I do, there's mould on the ceilings of the rooms in the upstairs part of my home. It's so annoying, and I can't work out how to shift it. I've even had the roof replaced for £5,000(!), and that hasn't done much to change anything. Any time it comes to decorating, I clean the mould away with the right spray (Cilit…
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Please remind me which lever turns the water off.
I know this is the way to turn the water off, I just want to check which levers to turn. A water softener is in the cupboard next to this under sink cupboard. All the taps in the house, except the garden tap have softened water so go through these pipes. (I’ve turned the water off before so know this works, it’s just a…
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Is Condensation on Vinyl Flooring a Thing?
My brother works down south in the week and returns to his house in the midlands for the weekends! He keeps his heating off and everything else apart from the fridge/freezer from Monday to Friday and cranks up the heating for Saturday and Sunday. When he puts his central heating on the vinyl floor becomes damp enough to…
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Question about curtain width
I need to replace the bedroom curtains in a house I’ve recently moved to. The good news is that they’re a standard drop of 137cm, but the width is not. The pole (excluding finials) is 127cm. I’ve seen some ready-made curtains I like but the width options are 117cm or 168cm per curtain pane, bought as a pair. The advice…
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White washing a wall .
Our garden wall is built with mono blocks with plaster and chips on the outside . The outside is turning black . Can I just whitewash this or is there more to do . Tried using bleach on the stains but nothing happened .
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Planning permission needed?
Hello, I have a couple of queries about some renovation/alterations we are thinking about for 2027 please and whether any permission/fees apply. The council (Durham) want money just for pre application advice and I didn't want to waste money if the answers are clear We live in a privately owned freehold 3 bed semi 2001…
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Help with toilet overflow
The toilet is overflowing slowly. I’ve put an arrow where the water comes in. It doesn’t completely shut off, leaving a very slow drip. I’ve sprayed vinegar around in case it is scaled up, but there remains a slow drip that eventually leads to the overflow on the LHS dripping outside. Anything easy I can do, or should I…
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Roof leak - repair from inside?
Over the past few months we've started noticing some leakage during periods of heavy rainfall, in an in-built cupboard in the rear back addition which also houses the boiler. We brought a roofer in to investigate, who had a look at the roof itself with a drone and concluded it must be an issue with the felt underlayment.…
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Am I being an awkward customer here? Hairline cracks keep coming back after bathroom plastering
Hi all, looking for a bit of a sanity check. I’ve just had a new bathroom fitted in an old house (150+ years). The original quote by the bathroom fitter included all walls to be plasterboarded, but I was away during the work and it turns out the existing plaster wasn’t taken back to brick or boarded — it was just skimmed…
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Opinion on roof work
I posted this on another forum but having got some useful responses in here for a couple of queries I thought it was worth asking here as well. We've just had some work done on the roof and I have some concerns about the finish. I'd like to know if a), the concerns are valid and b) what I should be saying to the builder in…
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Utility room ideas please 🙏
Afternoon all sorry if this I a repeat thread but I couldn’t find where the last one went ☹️ We have this add on to the house we’ve almost finished updating. Currently has electric and cold water supple with drainage (needs updating though). How would you go about making it into a small utility room? We’d like to replace…
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Worth getting anti allergy pillow protectors?
When it comes to allergies, blocked noses etc, is itcworth getting an anti allergy pillow protector or normal one washed the same?
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Builders seem to have clogged up rain gully
My third post of the day! It never rains etc etc. It looks like the builders who have been doing work at my house have clogged up the rainwater gully, potentially with cement. Its the small grate that the main roof gutter runs into, along with the waste water pipe from a utility room sink (luckily not used very much). This…
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Own an ABS Avocet thumb turn lock?
What's the push in/spring part of the thumb turn all about? Other thumb turns I've used didn't have this at all, it was just a simple turn. The ABS thumb turn I bought has the thumb portion of the lock as a spring where you can push it in (doesn't stay pushed in). If it was a case of you had to push it in to lock/unlock…
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Re-tiling roof
Hey.. I have a 1920s terraced house with welsh slates (no felt) and have had to repair slipped tiles a few times over the past 8 years I have been here. On the last repair, the roofer reported that they also had to fix the tiles surrounding the one that had slipped, as they were all loose and only held in place by…
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Quote to get kitchen redone. Does this seem reasonable?
Hi all, My partner and I recently bought a house and we are looking to get the kitchen redone (the kitchen is quite small, 2x3 meters). We've received this quote for the work (excluding the kitchen units, flooring, and tiles). We’re in North Yorkshire and just want to check if this seems reasonable to people who have done…
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Mock tudor facade advice
Hello, I’m hoping someone may be able to offer a bit of advice. I’ve searched the forum but haven’t been able to find any similar situations. We moved into our property in March last year. The house was built in the late 1980s and has a mock Tudor façade at the front, which incorporates the entrance porch and a first‑floor…
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Painting composite front door
Wondered if anyone has done this, successfully. Been a house 5 years which has a 7 year old composite front door, decent quality, never liked the dark brown colour though. I want to change it to pink or mauve. I think it’s worth painting it rather than getting a new door when this one is relatively recent and good quality.…
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