Remove painted on light switch covers.

I have those old plastic switch plate covers that I would like to replace, however they are stuck on the wall. How do I remove without harming the paint surrounding them. I have tried a small screwdriver and nail file. thank you.

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Stop water coming into a latex painted concrete block wall.

We have a new concrete block wall that was built to seal off an entrance to the building. Without doing some homework, it was painted with a regular exterior water based semi-gloss paint. Now we are having problems with the water seeping through the wall once in a while when

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Sikkens Stain and Muddy Rain Splots

Reapplied Sikkens Cetol stain to 4 year old deck. 2 days later it rained and formed quarter size, muddy, droplets. As my deck begins to dry, the spots are drying very pale tan — like it has stripped the stain away. How do I fix this?

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Red Spots on Shower Ceiling

We had really bad mold on our shower ceiling, I got it steam cleaned off and it was clean, though the guy said that the mold had gone into the paint (there was a light grey stain left on the ceiling after the steam clean). So 7 days after he

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Painting large wall from extension ladder

I’m in the process of (trying) to paint my pretty large house. I have a particularly large 2 story wall of cedar siding with only a few small windows. Have always heard to start from the top. The peak on this thing is about 25 ft up. But how do

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Noticeable touch-up of recently painted wall.

Tried touch-up of freshly painted wall and is highly noticeable – what can I do? Hallway/stairs was painted (applied by roller) a few days ago with Valspar Signature High Definition paint (eggshell finish). Needed to touch up a 1 ft area (wall patch was not fully sanded smooth and noticeable)

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