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Only you can decide what colour your happy with.
It's such a personal thing.
Some "experts" say look in your wardrobe for colours you like.
Also try and find out what colours work for your neighbours' rooms.
What colour is that carpet?
You could take a sample of the carpet to a paint shop and ask for tones which will work with it.

Re: Estate Agents.
Sadly dealing with them/getting to know them is very helpful if you want to be at the front of the queue.
There were several occasions when EAs told us about properties just coming on/offers fallen through, before they hit Rightmove. In hot areas they often don't have to do that many viewings either so if you don't get a slot then you won't get the property.
With our current house: The EA called us up just after an offer fell through as we'd made a lower offer several months before. It wasn't re-advertised.
Acorn do this thing where they don't put a property "on the market" and instead invite round a select list of buyers.
They said to us we could just do that with them for 2 weeks and if no offer accepted we could sell with someone else straight after or list as normal. (we didn't)

Did you mean 15 days rather than years? If not that's one hell of a conscription :-)
BTW how "open" is Finland's border with Russia? Is it heavily guarded/militarised?

Thanks - Coolings is a good shout

South - bit too close to Croydon for my liking

Are there any garden centres in and around London/M25 ish where we can see English Yew hedges or other hedging - and opens on Sunday?

Thanks @Belgian-Cat for smooth sale and quick postage :-)

I've had experience trying to buy through Strike.
Found them pretty useless but that may have had a lot to do with the seller and their expectations.
Arranging the viewing was fine but it became difficult trying to negotiate a price as the agents didn't do anything and it became like dealing direct with the seller.
This may suit some but it became quite personal and stressful.
There was no single named point of contact.
When we pulled out of the sale it took a while to sort/confirm with agent and then the sellers chased us for "solicitor's fees" with a series of emails before our solicitor warned them off.
Presumably a traditional agent would have told them chasing for fees was pointless...
My impression when seeing someone has put up their property for sale through one of the online ones is they are doing it on the cheap and may be difficult to deal with.
But ultimately if it's the right property at the right price then I'd still go for it.

We got this from john lewis just before Xmas (it was discounted too for some reason)
We use it in our front room most mornings - it heats it up within a few minutes, really impressive.
Don't know about cost of using it, kinda burying my head about energy costs at the moment...
https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-partners-mini-tower-fan-heater-white/p4775719

When we were planning to buy a second property and rent out our first we tried http://www.independentjames.com.
Very helpful and good to deal with.
In the end though we did a straightforward sell and buy and found we could get a better deal direct with Halifax.

Selling an Airflow Icon 30 extractor fan - couldn't get a hole in the wall big enough as there was a gas pipe in the way.
Went for the smaller Icon 15 instead.
Fitted and tested but otherwise as new.
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Thanks.
Yep I'm out of my depth here & will leave to the pros.

I'll wait for the sparky but it bothers me why I've failed.

The diagram I was working from is similar to the one attached but with three separate cables/lines.
I couldn't work out which one was the switch line.
So I tried each live cable in the switch line bit and none worked without tripping.

Straight after I removed the old ceiling rose (and stupidly didn't take a note of what went where) I checked each live with one of those main tester screwdrivers.
One arced on the tip of it, melted the tip of the driver and tripped the RCD.
The light does still come on though.
Of course being an old house there's not enough length of wire to work with so I can't be sure everything is properly connected.

I guess you need a lot of patience to be a sparky...

Thanks - half the battle is finding out what these things are called!

Also failed miserably to replace a light fitting: The replacement trips the RCD (and lights for the whole house) no matter which combination of wiring I use.
It's got 3 separate light cables coming to it, I followed the wiring diagram but something's clearly wrong. A sparky's coming round in a couple of weeks and i'll get them to do it properly.
I'm worried it'll trip again in the meantime: Is there a way of isolating a single light fitting so it doesn't f-up the rest?

Any idea how I can repair this?
What's a good temporary fix? Thick plastic/perspex sheet behind it?

I used Benjamin Moore "Aura" finish for some new cupboard doors (mainly cos our carpenter/builder appeared shocked when I told him I was going to paint it myself)
It's great but expensive.
It was fine for a few doors but now we've got whole rooms to repaint it soon adds up.

Just wondered 'cos I've found the opposite.
But googling it seems that the pros don't rate the estate emulsion as it needs 3 or 4 coats unless you use the F&B pricey primer.
I've been using the Modern Emulsion though and found it good with 2x coats, but I did put down at least 2 base coats of Dulux trade.
Having read more into it I may get it mixed in Dulux instead from now on!!

Why is F&B diff to apply?

Yeah we found cheaper elsewhere: BlueSkyBathrooms.
They said something was in stock when it wasn't.
And then as they were messing us about with delivery estimates and refunds they went bust taking our £££ with them...
Expensive lesson learnt over the importance of paying for big ticket items with a Credit Card.

Found Victorian Plumbing pretty good recently.
Sorted a missing item and a return well.
Have to contact over Twitter though to get the best response.

Looks amazing - yes please tell us more

And as you're a local shouldn't you be calling it "Surrey Docks"?
(My late boss was from there and loathed it being rebranded Surrey Quays!)

Any recommendations for non-wool carpets in beige/oatmeal colour, and also suppliers?
Tried Tapi which are a bit pricey, and some samples from designer carpets and online carpets. Wife wants something neutral and not grey.
Had a nightmare with wool moths before and want something soft for bedrooms.
We have a fitter lined up.

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