Don’t make a mess – catch the dust!

How to Catch Dust While Drilling Into a Wall

When you have decorated your room and it’s time to put the room back, put up pictures, curtain rails/poles you don’t want to have brick dust all over your newly decorated room.

To avoid the brick dust or plasterboard dust from falling down the wall whilst drilling here is a great tip!
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Colour samples and testers

Don’t paint them all over the walls!

Choosing paint colours can be a hard; buying sample/tester pots is a good way to see the colours for real rather than just from a paint chart.

When you have gone out and purchased your sample pots my tip would be NOT to paint them on the wall directly as the brushes that come with the pots are stiff and course. Continue reading Colour samples

This is our first tip of the year and may be of use to you if you are planning on having new windows or doors fitted in the coming months. You certainly notice drafty old windows and doors in the depths of the British weather!!
So, onto the tip….

Tips on using decorator’s caulk
Decorator’s caulk is a flexible filler that can be used to go around windows, doors, ceiling and coving line and along the top of skirting boards. It isn’t any good for filling holes in walls etc, as it cannot be rubbed down like powder filler.
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