Home DIY

Did you do it or a tradesman?

I've laid the wickes ones a couple of times. It's a pretty straightforward job you could do yourself.

great, cheers!

Did it all with my own fair hands with the exception of laying the carpet

• Stripped all carpets
  
• Sanded and varnished the floors
  
• Painted all walls
  
• Stripped all paint on banisters
  
• Painted all stairs
  
• Painted and varnished banisters
  

Pm me if you want me to run through it

Would also be interested. Current bathroom tiles are rocking and either need resetting grouting or replacement. Cork could be a nicer warmer alternative.

Didn't do our own, but 11-ish years in and they're still good. We used 6mm and honestly, it's more the quality of installation and finishing that makes the difference. I'm in N.A. and it was not a common product (especially for wet areas) at the time.

My bank holiday tiling adventure, split around the Epic Bognor...
Top image is the old tiles, bottom is the new.

Just waiting until I can grout now.

Good job you got rid of those green tiles.

Oh.

I'd be pleased with that.

Ha. It's a somewhat better shade of green now!

I actually like those old square green tiles but good job! :)

Yeah I didn't mind them for the first 4 years I lived here.... but you can have too much lime green tile in your life, it turns out.

New problem - light switch is buzzing, the one you can see at the far end under the cupboard. Checked the connections and they look ok - could be I got some dust in when I sanded down the filler? Is it fixable, or should I just get a new switch?

should I just get a new switch?

Yep. It'll be the contactors inside the switch housing if the connections are tight.

Where to get pegboard from? Want to have a wall in understairs cupboard for hanging tat. None of the usual suspects seems to stock it unless it's tiny metal sheets. I'm after large boards - space to fill is approx 2m by 80cm

Wait, is that a silver photo frame?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEv53suBZOE

Make your own - and do a jumbo one with dowel

Got mine from a local timber yard...

I DO have a new drill!

A fine idea.

We've got it in a corner of our kitchen. I can ask our builder where he got it.

I have a brand new tiled kitchen splash back, very solid etc but the tiles need to be removed or tiled over (can't be arsed to go into the whys...). If I remove them its going to bring the plasterboard down which they are attached to. So, can I tile over tiles?

Internet says yes and no, tilers say yes and no. What does LFGSS say?

What does LFGSS say?

HTFO generally

As long as the existing tiles are solid then it will be fine.

Recently bought a flat and the immediate jobs, other than painting/filling holes, are re-doing the kitchen and bathroom.

Currently the kitchen looks like this, which is all coming out and will be replaced by plain white units on the bottom and a couple of shelves across the wall above the cooker. Will also be bodging the tiles and seeing how they come up when painted white:

The floor currently has not-so-nice laminate, but pulling that up shows pine (i think!) boards underneath which i'll be sanding down:

Bathroom is quite small and dark, and just has a shower in, so we're adding a bath and re-tiling with these 10x20cm tiles (Fabresa unicolour blanco somethingorother). Will be adding a cork floor too.

The rest of the flat has slightly nicer/newer laminate in it (photo from the original ad, so not our stuff):

but underneath that, it looks like there's parquet of some sort, albeit in need of some TLC, which is another project for the future!

I'd consider doing parquet at the same time - riding the DIY wave for as long as possible is key plus the dust.