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I have bench tops in good condition but just the surface. Almost everything seems to stain it. Even rubbing with just a wet cloth seems to rub off a little bit of laminate making it slightly lighter than the rest. Wander if there is some kind of paint that could be applied? Heard of...

Usually we buy home as is and we have 2 options use as is or try to improve. I wander if anybody has any major insulation success with modest investment. I have few problems like single glazed aluminium windows that are major heat loss/gain and timber doors that bow away from insulation foam...

I want to inject foam to brick-veneer cavity to give copper hot water pipe some thermal insulation. I wander if somebody knows the answer or could point me in the right direction to get one. There are a number of products with expanding foam. I heard that some foams tend to disintegrate...

I have internal opening 2.065 by 1.165 wide and I thought to put some kind of door. Most probably with glass, so corridor doesn’t become all of the sudden a very dark place. Should I install swinging 2 halves, or should I reduce opening on one or both sides and use standard internal door...

I promised to help to get rid of ants at friend’s place, but I’ve got bit of a problem. I use poison, but they keep reappearing after a week or two in their constant march toward eaves in garage. I checked in roof cavity, but they are not in the roof area, garage is just brick wall, but...

I put anti-draft foam and top and bottom of the door bowed away, making gap appear again. I wander did anybody have had something like that happen and what is the remedy?

I wander if there are any ways to dry wet particleboard that cannot be replaced? Also are there any ways to make particleboard kind of water repellent or at least water-resistant?

It puzzles me for a while. There is concern for concrete cancer, and yet I see a lot of concrete poured over rusty RIO mesh and reinforcement steel. Is that rust a seed for concrete cancer or that secondary rust making concrete to swell and break because of rust inside is caused by...

I want to keep it sloping, but what would be the best trick to stop pine bark slowly making its way down? I would like to put a weed-mat too, but if pine bark slowly makes it way down without slippery weed-mat, I have no chances it will stay on it.

Not big problem, as water can be wiped up, but I wander if there is smart remedy to make water go to drain. I did little experiment. Cotton string with one end in puddle and other in drain got rid of water in couple of hours. Looks bit silly and can be washed down the drain if not...

There are 2 places where top bench top pieces are joined. I wander is there anything that can be soaked into joint area to make it water repellent? I would like to make joint area water repellent before any water gets there. No matter how careful you are it is inevitable that water will...

Hi, I wander if anybody went past thinking stage what to do with heat transformation through metal window frames. I’ve got few ideas, but all seem to be clumsy and add more problems down the track. To be precise I thought about some timber frames on the outside of the window, so in summer...

I wander what would be the best way to seal gaps between aluminium window frame and brickwork on the outside? Looks that window was set back too far and there is small gap between window and brick. Gaps are not big enough to use mortar. If I just use cartridge sealer, material will just...