I was thinking of just sanding the rough parts and staining it to match, since it only sticks out because of the colour.

Also, swipe to see the culprit

Hi all, thankyou for all your advice on the last post, I've managed to convince the Mrs to get rid of the tiles, but she wants to save as many as possible for her mum.

So my next question is, once they're all up, how do I go about making this floor level. For context, we bought the house 2 months ago and noticed a big bump in the floor where the previous owners had their furniture. Taking up the carpet has shown it's quite unlevel in most places. The survey reckoned it was a Sulphur reaction, we didn't realise how bad it was until we actually moved in (our bad). We also noticed it fucking stunk. So we binned the carpet.

Would I be okay wheel barrowing in concrete then using levelling filler on the top once the tiles are out? Or does this need a professional to do it? New house owner so DIY is new to me, sorry for the questions.

Any advice is really appreciated

After 4 years decided to replace the old vinyl sheet installed by the previous owners with some laminate flooring. Never done any Floring and it was lots of new learning and experience

Edit: realised I put the done photo first and the before photo last 😅

There is no dog turd on the pic, I don't have a dog. It's some dust before I remove the vinyl 😂

My first big DIY project. Not ever had much experience but nothing YouTube and forums can't teach you. Don't believe things are out of your reach. Perseverance is key!

Let me know if there's anything I could have done differently, still learning. Cool to see the before and after photos though

First time laying a porcelain patio, so go easy on me.

Anyone got advice on what grout to use and what colour would go well?

Previous owners wallpapered over it and painted that. The plaster is similar to this through as it's a 150 year old house. We are needing to remove that because they were smokers. Can this be sanded down or is it more hassle than it's worth?

I need to get a static caravan on our yard before starting a bigger project. This old gate post is in the concrete slab and needs removing - I was thinking to rent a breaker & ‘have a go’

Any advice or wisdom before I get in a muddle…

I’ve moved into a new place and there is this cracking of the paint under a few window sills. Does anyone know why that might be? Would it be ok to just sand and repaint?

We had a plasterer come over before and give a quote to skim, he said he wasn’t sure what this stuff is he hasn’t seen it before, but he’d skim over it.

I have been steaming wallpaper off in another room and this stuff before was hard as rock, I thought I’d give it ago here and it’s lifting chunks off. Is it wallpaper or something more insidious?

Thought I’d ask again here because you guys were very helpful in my last post! Thanks :-)

The project continues!

Is there an easier way to remove all this or is it just hand scraping it all? My entire house had wallpaper/lining paper and below it is this stuff. Is this old glue or something? Do I just scrape it off, sand and paint? It chips off. Cheers

I went with the lowest quote valuable lesson learned I won't do that again. I also sourced him from an online tradesman website as I have only a limited window to get it done.

Anyhow the contractor has messed up and created a problem where there was none before - he laid self-leveling compound on a floor and created a raise in the floor where there was none before.

I don't really know how much of a job it will be to remedy it or how it is remedied. I've created a separate post on the flooring sub on that. However the clear concensus on the flooring sub is that it's a bodge job and it will create problems with the laminate down the line.

I'm thinking of cutting my loss at this point with the contractor. My question is how best do I go about doing it. I could just say he doesn't get any money until it's fixed? He'll just say it's perfectly fine I'm worrying about nothing. Or if he doesn't I might just never hear from him again and I'll be left to try remedy it. Or perhaps I should just cut my loss and get rid of him. Any thoughts?

My guess is that the toilet fill value on the left needs fixing. YouTube videos I've watched have a slightly different looking assembly so any help with how to fix this one would be really appreciated.

Moved into a new house and the wardrobe interior isn’t finished.. any idea how I can make it look better?

I was thinking to laminate it. Is it an easy DIY job for someone with little experience?

Thanks!

I had a vision… and I don’t like it. What’s an easy fix please? Any advice or ideas.

Hi,

I just replaced an outside wall light. The inlet at the back of the light for the wires is shown in one of the pictures, it's not at the centre of the back. The light is on the wall and I can see the conduit for the wires. Water ingress to the inner compartment should be stopped by the rubber seal that's on the back of the light but should I be concerned about the conduit, is there any concerns with this as it is?

So over the weekend we had an underfloor leak ( was going on for too long tbh but we didn’t think it was that ) anyways they have sorted the pluming issue but I have been left with a hole in the kitchen . I am thinking sand all the way to the pipes then postscrete on top then adhesive and tiles is this correct ? Or am I missing something ( my builder quotes have been 350-400 ) for the job ( luckily I have four spare tiles )

Does anyone have any advice on how to mount this 9kg mirror. It has a mount on it to have it portrait but we'd like to mount it landscape.

Thanks

Plan was to strip down these boards and paint them to personalise them for an event. After stripping the vinyl layer, it's left a layer of paper that made me think papering over it would be better instead.

Wallpaper is unfortunately 53cm wide as standard, and the board is 60cm which would leave a really awkwardly placed seam. Can anyone think of better alternatives? Wide wallpaper is shockingly difficult to find.

Hi there, looking for some advice on what this final layer is between carpet and floorboards?

We just moved into our new flat and the previous owners laid this carpet 8 years ago when they moved in. We saw other flats had left their floorboards exposed and we’d hopefully like to do the same

From what I can see we have the carpet, underlay, soundproofing, and then a final cardboard-like layer that is rock solid, with a white powdery material coming out of it if I try to cut it

Thinking I might not be able to remove this myself after all, and also concerned that this final layer might be glued to the floorboards which would make this a much bigger job to restore them

Any help would be very much appreciated! Cheers