It'll go through the wood like a hot knife through butter. Fix a strip of elastic around the end of your pasting table to prevent the wallpaper from curling up and rolling away when you're pasting it. If you're having trouble removing a rawlplug from a wall, use a corkscrew on it just as you would to remove a cork from a bottle. If your ceiling is badly stained, paint it with one layer of undercoat before emulsioning. The stains wont come through.
Hand cream is great at unsticking stiff locks, hinges etc.
To avoid wood splitting when you hammer a nail in, blunt the point of the nail with the hammer first. Before laying foam-backed carpeet, sprinkle a little talc or cornflour on the floor. If you have to take the carpet up in the future, it wont stick to the floor. When you replace a pair of curtains, keep the old ones and sew them inside the new pair, inside out so the old pattern doesn tshow, to make a warm winter lining. An old plastic raincoat can be recycled to make good, strong, wipe-clean covers for school books.