How to paint a perfectly straight line on a wall
At the top of the walls in our living room is a slight curve between the wall and the ceiling. It’s a nice feature, but it causes one problem – there is no natural...
WTF is the difference between white spirits, methylated spirits and turpentine?
I found myself scratching my head in Woodie’s one day wondering what is the difference between white spirits, methylated spirits and turpentine. For home decoration purposes, these are really three versions of the same...
How to clean paint brushes
Once you’re done with the painting and you have admired your handiwork, you’ll need to clean up – yawn – this guide will make the fairly dull activity finish as quickly as possible so...
Feck… disaster! How to fix flaking paint on new plaster
Once the paint was dry I excitedly removed the tape at the top of the walls and…… half of the paint came off with it.
CRAP.
How to calculate SEAI grants and HRI tax relief
So one month in and the budget is already blown with insulation work and the boiler giving up on us. To slightly cushion the blow there are a few grants and tax incentives to...
How to improve a *terrible* BER rating
So the new house is lovely now that it’s the middle of summer in Dublin, but the surveyor warned us that there was “basically no insulation whatsoever”! He hinted that we “might want to...
WTF is Caulk?
One of the new joys of home ownership is spending part of your weekend walking the aisles of Woodies DIY warehouses looking for things that you never previously thought about. Last week I even...
