DIY Doctor’s very own Blog has been stated as one of the best five DIY Blogs by Appliances Online.

The list covers blogs giving information and advice for people who might be looking for DIY tips and decorating inspiration, and includes ‘Homes Suite Homes’ - offering advice on how to achieve your dream home, ‘Apartment Therapy’ – for help if you are decorating a smaller space, ‘Ikea Hacker’ – giving ideas and innovative ways to alter your Ikea furniture to suit your needs, and ‘UK DIY’ – which is the social media element of a craft uprising taking part in the UK.

As hundreds and hundreds of our users experienced problems with crown paint when the sun came out, we decided to monitor our forum to learn a little more about their complaints.

It seems Crown have come up with a few different resons for the smelly paint problem but none that have resolved the problem.

DIY Doctor wrote to Crown Paints to try and get them to communicate directly with the forum users and assure them that everything was being done to resolve the problem.

Here is the email we received through their PR department. Lets us know if this answer helps.

Dear Mr. Edwards

Crown Customer Services Dept.

National women’s magazine is looking for women aged 30+ with interesting stories to talk about their DIY projects for an upcoming feature.
 

Have you put skills you’ve learnt on diydoctor.co.uk to use in your home? Or fixed a problem that would otherwise have cost you a fortune to call an expert out to do?

Contact: kazhove@gmx.com for more information

We are having a single story extension built and the weight of one of the steels that supports the roof is directly onto a window frame. Is this OK? I thought that all windows needed lintels above them that should take the load.

Down to Earth is the newly launched eco-friendly range from LG Harris.

With more than 35 million paint brushes being discarded into landfill sites every year in the UK, it’s good to see companies addressing these issues.

The paintbrush and roller handles are made from 65% cornstarch. In normal landfill conditions the handles will biodegrade over a much shorter time than Polypropylene, which is used in the manufacture of most other paint brushes.

The paint brush head is manufactured from a mix of synthetic filaments and natural bristles, formulated to be 30% biodegradable.

Down to Earth brushes

 As the importance of sustainability increases and landfill sites are no longer a long term option, LG Harris have looked at reducing the amount of waste we produce. This includes packaging – all the packaging used in the Down to Earth range is produced from recycled or biodegradable materials, and all the materials used come from suppliers who have complete environmental accreditation.

DIY Doctor’s website has been given the Hitwise Top 10 Award for July – December 2009!

Twice a year, Hitwise awards the 10 most popular websites across over 160 categories. The awards are based on popularity according to the market share of user visits a website receives compared to other websites in the same industry. Hitwise is a leading global online competitive intelligence service.

I have just had the section of the mains water pipe replaced that runs from the street to the front door as old stop cock at the entrance to the house had burst. That situation took a week to finally get someone round to do it.  In that time I had clamped the leak to reduce the flow from the burst and I had to adjust the water pressure from the mains street stop cock to allow some water in to the network, not to much as water was still was flowing in to the house but enough to supply next door as they are on the same supply as me. My house is supplied with mains first and then splits in the kitchen to feed theirs.

Since this has been fixed the hot water runs ok for a few seconds and then slowly drops in pressure until it is a bit more than a dribble.

The cold water pressure is fine.

As far as I can work out we have an indirect boiler system.

Can anyone think what might be going on.

Thanks

I intend to change the radiator valves on all my old radiators to thermostatic. The modern valves have very much smaller fittings to the radiator. What do I require to add to rectify this problem. If there is a fitting, can it be supplied chrome finished.

The basic clearance distance around electrical service equipment is 30 inches min. This means that 15 inches from centre, side to side should be clear of other utilities including the water mains.

I cannot stop the squeaking of the 1st floor which is a suspended floor on a fairly new house. We can hear the noise as family members walk around above us.