How to protect your home from burglaries
Collaborative post with our friends at FBD Insurance How to protect your home from burglaries There is no doubt that having your home burgled is a very distressing experience. That is why FBD Insurance...
Step-by-step: How to properly frame your own photos
Most of have vast digital archives of photos these days – most of which never see the light of day outside our phones. Now that we have a load of empty walls in the...
How to hang a picture *without* drilling holes
Sounds too good to be true, right? If a company told you that you could save yourself the pain of finding studs in walls, drilling, screwing and vacuuming, would you believe them? Well, 3M...
How to attach a skirting board
We had a bunch of electricians and plumbers lifting floorboards and removing skirting boards as they completed the insulations works. Unfortunately, a few of the skirting boards were discarded and needed to be replaced...
How to use a wood plane to fix a sticking door
After painting the woodwork in one of our rooms I was absolutely delighted with myself… until the paint dried and I realised that the door was now sticking in the door frame because of...
How to fill holes or cracks in interior walls
Having bought an old house built in the 1950’s there are certainly plenty of holes and cracks in the walls. We counted over 200 plastic picture hooks around the house, and every one of...
How to use an electric sander to sand a banister
We have an original 1950’s oak wooden banister in the house we’ve just bought. The problem is that it is covered in the old varnish that hadn’t aged very well and was a horrible...
How to stain and varnish wooden floorboards
This is part two of a post, where the previous one focused on how to sand wooden floorboards. Now we need to finish them off. This is how to stain and varnish wooden floorboards....
How to sand wooden floorboards
We had just lifted our carpet to find out that the original 1950’s pine wooden floorboards were in reasonable nick. I decided to test the water whether we should get somebody in to do...
How to paint onto fresh plaster
So you want to paint onto fresh plaster on your wall or ceiling (hmmm, smooooooth…) and you’re dead excited to apply the top coat. Woah, not so fast! Before you get to slap the...
