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No damp and it's a cavity wall just bought the plastering sand and cement now though so may as well use it unless someone on here told me it's not suitable. So guessing it's fine to use then. What ratio? Would the block work need PVAing first too?

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Hi, I need to do some patching up on in interior of an external wall where existing sand/cement has broken off. There's a section about 8 inches high running the length of two walls, one wall being the window wall. There was coving here until it was ripped down as a new board was put up on the...

Danny says heat resistant plasters as it gets very hot and Tinytom says any old sh*te will do. Who's right?

It's not the primary heat source for the room, we have central heating throughout. The heat output wasn't the be all and end all as we wanted a proper gas fire with a real flame and need to maximise space in the living room as we don't have the space for a big hearth. Didn't fancy the awful...

Hi, We've recently had a the living room chimney breast reinstated after previous owners ripped it out. Its made of out dense block and we've left the appropriate opening for the fire as instructed by our gas fitter. The gas fitter reckons we are fine to plasterboard (standard board) the...