Dear James: I need to paint my house, which has wood siding. The paint is in pretty bad shape. What is the proper way to scrape and prepare the wood surface so the paint will stay on longer and look ...

CLEANING bathrooms and kitchens are two tasks many take on with great reluctance, but the satisfying results often makes the time spent worth it. But when you do it often enough, you begin to look for ...

A MUM has shared her “life saving” hack for stripping paint in seconds. Vicki Townley, 52, from Derbyshire, wanted to remove old paint from her stairs handrail but couldn’t find her paint scraper. So ...

Q. I live in a 55-year-old home that has plaster walls. Last winter there were ice dams on the eave edges of the roof and some water got inside the main floor bathroom. Now the paint in this area is ...