Home DIY

Or buy some kneepads and the cheapest widest wood chisel you can and get to scraping the paint.

Do toupret make a white wood filler? (Not premixed) Does natural matter if I'm going to paint anyway? What/where else should I consider which I can I buy in person/click collect tonight/tomorrow for weekend chores? Exterior - patching up wooden garage door for repaint.

I liked using the ready mixed Everbuild stuff in the small pots from tool station/amazon
May not be cost effective if doing large areas but it was easy to use and sanded well

Ha! If you look closely, there are no light fittings😬😂

But front wall plastered

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Does anyone have advice for assessing and addressing this wet patch in our ground floor living room?

Thought I'd ask on here before entering the Wild West of MyBuilder...

One thought is that the exterior brickwork is pebbledashed + thick layer of paint.

We're in East London.

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Pre-mix tile adhesive for porcelain tiles going onto walls in a kitchen.
Would prefer pre-mixed in a tub because it's a relatively small job and I don't really want to mix stuff.

Any recs? Would prefer screwfix as I have some other stuff on there for click and collect but can go wherever. The only stuff I see there however is either not explicitly rated for porcelain tiles (will it make a difference) or is rated as both grout and adhesive (and not really sure how that works tbf - surely doing an adhesive layer and then wiping over with the same material like a grout wouldn't give a good finish? (e.g. https://www.screwfix.com/p/mapei-wall-waterproof-fix-grout-white-1-5kg/64982)

It looks like the damp is coming up, and down from the sill. Are there any down pipes in the near vicinity outside that are leaking/blocked drains. Or pipes under the floor leaking? What is the condition of the render outside, any cracks? How does it interface under the sill? Is that wall under the ground level?

We had the exact same thing in our bays, also pebbledashed. The cement render fails, water wicks in through the cracks and cannot escape back out via the external cement so the entire wall gets saturated and the moisture eventually makes its way indoors.

We ended up removing the pebbledash, it's the only way to fix the problem. The brick will take months/years to fully dry.

Thanks so much, that’s really useful intel.

Not logged in as Mishk/me, but thank you.

Will check all those questions.

Are you sure it's a layer of something different? Sandstone is sedimentary and can wear down in layers.

As above, but water could also be coming in through the will or mullions.

I've got pretty similar in our front room, I think it's coming in that way because of the prevailing wind and rain, and that the window isn't properly sealed around where it meets the brickwork.

Will get at it this weekend with a fresh tube of window sealant, but the general rule of thumb is that it takes a month to dry out for every inch thickness of wall.

So whatever you do, will take a while to bear fruit or be ready for paint again.

What's on the other side?

New cupboards under the stairs. Painting them this weekend.

Should I paint them all in white or paint the top and bottom trim white to match the skirting / stairs and the cupboards in the wall colour?

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Anyone with photoshop skills who can mock both up, appreciated.

crude shopping while coffee is being made, but i vote wall colour (grey? Im colourblind btw, so don't use my judgement for anything)

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It's interesting, I instinctively thought second option better (wall colour) but then remembered that at my parents it's white gloss to match the balustrade. So 🤷‍♀️

I guess tonally I prefer wall colour, but the problem will be the paint will be a different finish which looks odd. Unless you can use the same emulsion. In which case I still vote wall colour.

Thanks! Quickly did my own 'shop' in powerpoint because I'm a compute wizard.

Think this is what I'll go for.

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Agreed.

Otherwise it's too much white / the thin wall section looks odd.

We did an understairs cupboard door in a Dulux satin colour match to the walls which were Matt. It looks great in anything but super bright light which this rarely gets.

I go match the wall with the fronts and do the skirting to match the stairs.

Edit: great as in "not texturally different"

Well it’s all been primed and the white is too all encompassing so it’s definitely getting wall colour.

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Gas or water?

It's upstairs above a kitchen. There are pipes in the corner of the room. Leading into the bathroom so am assuming water but before I go wild...

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This is one of those jobs I definitely should have got someone else to do :p

I've got about 20kg of powdered tile adhesive in EN1 going spare if that helps