Home DIY

That's what I should have done I bought one and it was not up to the job, eventually I had someone in for another job and asked them to do it at the same time.

Really nice tiles though, we've got some of the creamish coloured ones over our bathroom sink too.

Did you go for the bottle green ones? Did you use trim? Colour? Profile? Size (presume 12mm to account for 10mm tile+adhesive?) I'm elbow deep in choices and no closer to a solution.

Didn't panel the interior. Stapled the lining membrane tight to the frame inside, to stop the soil pushing out onto the backer board. Also put heaps of old branches etc at the bottom before putting soil in.

Recommendations for paint (brand and type) to paint doors and frames in white. One that requires only one coat with a gloss roller for large areas.

Thanks

Just painted my masonry, looks pretty shit, think I need to sand and smooth it out a bit, any top tips anyone?

So tempted to tell you how mad I went on masonry one time. I'm going to spare you the details of my obsession though.

If you skim masonry with the appropriate filler and sand it lightly you can get a smooth finish that rain will largely run off and the masonry looks better for longer.

It's often better to skim the whole piece and sand it otherwise the patches of different texture will 'grin' and make the masonry look very patchy in some light.

Adhesion is the biggest part of the problem so proper keying before skimming is absolutely necessary.

To be honest I’d love to hear the tale.
So basically tourpet masonry skimmed across whole area and sanded? Prob going to need to sand back fresh paint then…

Has anyone painted a roof before, just buying another house and the roof has been painted previously not sure if its been cleaned and painted that then fucks the tiles but looking at it the paint has went all sorta patchy and tbh looks shit and I'm not re roofing it as that is not in the budget.

Our stonework was just done like this; full skim, shitloads of sanding, filling, more sanding…

Ours was really fucked through many decades of neglect though.

Mines turbo fucked. Not sure how deep I want to go.

I just pulled a dandelion growing out of a crack in the middle of a stone windowsill. Think the stonework's in a bit of a state...

Hey folks. Anyone have experience re-rendering the outside of a house? We’re looking at a place (not UK) that has that awful textured painted finish on the entire exterior. It looks and feels terrible and filthy. We trying to understand how big a project it would be to fix it up.

How big a job is it, how costly? A detached house, about 200m2

Local conditions will dictate this. Are smooth rendered properties common where you are? If not costs go up. Are you somewhere with high h&s standards, scaffolding needed etc.

I can't see stripping render, disposal, making good and re-rendering and then painting a property being cheap.

This was sound thinking - more grab and a little less slump too. I did 1 course last night and they’ve bonded really well.

So any one used zinsser interior paint?

How did you find it going on? How did you prep the surface and was it truly one coat?

Oh and a supplier in London I can walk in and collect.

Wash and repaint is common in france

I've got about 15kg of left over tile adhesive and several litres of acrylic primer if anyone wants. EN1.

I hate painting, well prep. Scraping shit paint off takes ages. 7 hours today.

One coat paints only really work if the existing paint is in good condition and you key it properly.

Do you want to make me cry?

What is defined as a good key? As you can see further up the poor paint adhesion, that I have to remedy. Scraping and then sanding with an old b&d mouse attached to a Henry.

Need to do lots of painting of doors, frames and stairs. Was hoping zinsser stuff was an easy paint to use with a dust wipe down.

Pop the plastic trim, measure the glass frame and buy a replacement. Slide new unit in.

There may be mastic and some spacers but it's not rocket science.

A glazer may have faster access to a replacement panel

Edit: @HatBeard

In this instance, the window looks to be externally glazed and there's no wedge gasket showing around the inside edge.

So the glass may be stuck down onto security tape (double sided foam tape). Or there may be security clips which will need cutting or a tool to release from inside once the beads are removed.

I decided I had enough to do around the house already so we called a man and was quoted about £90 for normal, £120 for the toughened glass version. which makes it hardly worth me getting involved, there's some panels elsewhere that are getting a bit misty so i can cosplay a glazier when they get eventually get replaced instead.

thanks for the replies everyone though was helpful in deciding I should yield this time.

We've got a front garden wall in bad shape and I'm thinking of just removing it, levelling the front garden and planting a nice privet hedge. But I'm also considering making some sort of bin storage for the three wheelie bins we have. Would I get away with having this against the pavement, facing out, so that we only see the nice wooden back of it - or maybe even the hedge if it's thick enough to cover it entirely?

How would you put stuff in the bin?

Chrisbmx made something like this.

Made my first jig. Obviously bought the edge guide but made the rest from hits knocking around.

I need to rebate a corner and needed a way to keep to the inside edge.

Will report back on how it goes.

Also I'm really into double sided tape a the mo. It's fucking great.

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