I am trying to put up curtains in my son's bedroom, but the wall just crumbles when we try to drill into it. I have tried screwing into the wooden window frame too but it's not deep enough to hold...
I'm moving into a house soon that has had rising damp in the past. There is a reputable company going to do any work and guarantees before I buy it. My solicitor says that rising damp always comes...
I have very stupidly spilt hot leg wax on my carpet. How on earth can I get it off? It won't scrape off wIth a knife like regular candle wax, would an iron and brown paper work. It's a beige carpet so...
Thought 'Garden' was closest! Anyway, around our way (Northants) there seem to be loads of fields of bamboo. I know one particular farmer has been growing this for about 4 years, but this year there...
I was going to lay garden bark all round the trees & bushes between my lawn & the wall about 3-4 inches deep,but have been advised to lay black polythene first .Is this necessary I thought the bark...
due to poor landscaping when my house was built the front lawn is growing on clay and is constantly soaking wet can anyone suggest ways of drying it out to save me digging the whole lot up and...
not sure if this is the right place to post but can anyone give me any information about tropical aquariums. think you possibly have to change the filters every four week at a cost. is this really...
i have some linnen brown trousers, however the first time i wore them i spilt milton (sterlising solution) on them and now theres loads of white splashes on the legs. Does anyone have a good way of...
does anyone know if the thousands of flats / apartments that are springing up in our cites have soundproofing i:e: not being able to hear the flat above when someone is walking on the "teak floors"or...
Have seen adverts for magnets that stop your heating pipes from scaling up. Also they breakdown limescale. A friend is having a new heating system installed and engineer wants to fit one (for an extra...
Blimey, anyone know of a good company to rent an washer/dryer from in the Middlesex area I put it into Google and there hardly any out there, and the one that is listed is just a website that...
I have a lovely chest of drawers, but the rather flimsy bottom on one of the drawers is sagging. I seem to remember seeing some kind of metal bar type thing you can affix to the underside of a drawer...