Exterior wall paper? OK, despite the headline and attention grabbing title, you can guess we love decorating, so today we are looking at the concept of exterior wall paper; does it exist? Are there such coatings that are durable, applied to the outside walls, and can behave like a wallpaper? We explore the concept of...Continue reading
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Home Improvements Advice from the UK’s best love brand of wall coatings!
The risks of buying power tools and DIY stuff at car boot sales
In these cash-strapped times what could be more satisfying than finding a cordless drill at a car boot sale for a fiver, or buying some paint for the hallway for only 2 quid a tin, off some bloke with a parrot on his shoulder, in a field in Essex?
Some easy steps to take to restore a sense of pride in your house
Do people point and laugh at your home when walking by? Can you not bear to look at the condition of the exterior? Have people mistaken it for an abandoned property?! Do you despair you could never afford to have it properly fixed and painted? Think again. If you are planning on having relatives around...Continue reading
Has DIY been replaced by Do It For Me? A lament on the loss of “Dad skills”
Quite apart from the undeniable fact that DIY has a better sound to it than YDIFM, recent studies have shown that DIY is on the decline, so we thought to find out exactly why. I was brought up in the 1970’s and as far as I can recall, my father was ALWAYS doing something DIY...Continue reading
Good boy! The amazing and talented dogs who sniff out damp and dry rot in buildings
Dry rot, damp, mould and other horrors can ruin a home, especially an older, or even historic building. Over the years many methods and tricks have been tried out to locate dry rot in houses, but as the damage is often hidden, how do you find dry rot without ripping the place apart? Step forward...Continue reading
Home safety tips for both your family, and your local builder
There’s nothing more satisfying than watching your house be repaired, painted or improved in some way, when workmen come around to carry out home improvements but for the unwary, there are risks involved, but there are many ways to avoid any incidents. When workmen and builders come around to carry out home improvements, if they...Continue reading
How to completely weatherproof and waterproof a house
With the amount of rain we get in the UK, some would suggest we go and live in boats, but we have another solution to protect your home from the rain, the cold and the damp, and get it all the repairs done, AND get it painted with a long life wall coating! All for...Continue reading
Six reasons to NOT paint the outside of your own house, EVER.
Does your house need painting but you don’t know where to begin? That should be the FIRST alarm bell ringing just there. Fair’s fair, I wouldn’t know how to carry out your job, but why are you considering carrying out the job of a professional decorator? Is it as easy as that?Continue reading
Leafy Living: The Pro’s and Con’s of living in a tree-lined street
Tree-lined streets can be found across the country, in towns, cities and villages, but is living in a verdant suburb all it’s cracked up to be? Is it the good life? We look at the pro’s and con’s of “leafy living” and whether a street flanked by greenery, urban or rural, can be a blessing...Continue reading
Take the pain out of painting with textured exterior coatings for the outside of your house!
If the image in your mind of a “Textured coating” is something akin to a “tree bark” effect on your house then you have us mixed up with another wall coating company as we don’t do that, in fact we HATE that sort of texture! Having your home coated with a special long life resin-based...Continue reading
The completely wrong approach to improving your property. Some stupid ideas for stupid people
We all like to make our house as good as it can possibly be, however while there are many ways to improve your home for the better, it’s important to take the right approach with DIY and home improvements, or you could end up losing money instead.
Over the top basement conversions: A Journey to the centre of the earth with London’s Iceberg homes.
In London’s overheated property market it seems houses are for now only millionaires and not the likes of you or I any more, and with the cost on average 3 bed home in the capital now reaching the dizzy heights of approximately HALF A MILLION POUNDS! (Source: Land Registry), and the effects of mass immigration...Continue reading