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small spider cracks on first skim coat
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slight play in plasterboard join
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skrimming ceiling when not plastering walls
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Skrim tape existing joins?
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Skimming up to an external corner
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Skimming surfaces ???
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Skimming sand and cement render
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Skimming over paper that has already been filled over
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Skimming over paint - advice please
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Skimming Over Loose Old Plaster
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Skimming over lime plaster (internal wall)
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Skimming over cracks
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skimming over blown plaster
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Skimming over a fairly decent ceiling.
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Skimming Marmox boards
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Skimming Hardwall
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skimming ceiling
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Jul 18, 2012
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skimming around skirts, picture rails etc
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Skimming around chimney breast
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Cockney
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Skimming a wall tips
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Skimming a patch
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Skim up to upvc window
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skim plastering over a edge of wood
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Skim over wood
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Skim over internal render??
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Feb 22, 2019
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Skim over existing plaster, what to do on existing angle beads?
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Skim over emulsion paint
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Mar 24, 2012
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Skim over board and solid wall
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Skim over artex ceiling
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Skim Coating Drywall walls
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Skim coat with a clay look
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Skim coat over old plasterboard
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skim bead
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Skim a wall with a roller??
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Silicone render onto sand cement render
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Shower room - Bonding + skim OR plasterboard + skim?
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should you chip off finish coat before attatching angle bead for a reskim of a wall
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Should i use a primer on plasterboard ?
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should I PVA after febond blue grit?
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Should i plaster??
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Should I also use SBR bounding as well as PVA the walls
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Should hardwall be dry before skim?
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Shortcut for cement render drying time swimming pool
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sharpening trowels
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sharpen trowel
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second coat of multifinish
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Second coat of multi finish weak and poorly adhered to 1st coat
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Second coat of hard wall after 12hrs - pva required?
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Second coat of bonding
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scrim tape?
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Scrim tape type and order
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Scrim matting?
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Screeding help needed
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SBR Peeling off wall (substrate and old finish)
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SBR over crazy render?!
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SBR onto crazy render?
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Sbr before plastering wall
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SBR
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Sanding plaster
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Sanding new plaster join where patched in with existing wall
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Sand Cement Internal - Creamy
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Sand and Cement Plastering
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Sand and Cement onto the inside of a clay block building? Anyone have experience?
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sand + cement internal finish
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Salt in plaster
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S&C Render Advise
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Rust
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Rough Plastering quote and advice
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Rough plaster in corners
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rough idea of how many jumbo bags of plastering sand to order?
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room 3m wide but tapered edge boards only tapered up the long edge?
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Roof trusses uneven what's best?
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Rock lath
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jamesthefirst
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Rib Lath - Help Please
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Reveals
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Reusing plasterboard screw hole
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Cockney
Reskim around doors
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The Hobo
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replastering following damp repair
Turkish
Nov 1, 2016
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907
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whitebeam
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Replacing S&C render with lime?
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bodders13
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Replacing Pull Cord Light - Hole In Plaster!
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GioDIY
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Replacing behind a radiator? Best option?
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Chris W
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Replacing & Repointing spalling bricks
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Replace plaster on a small patch of brickwork
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Sep 29, 2020
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Tinytom
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Repairs to ceiling plaster on baseboards cracking at joins and sagging
dezy
Feb 26, 2016
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dezy
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Repairs to blown render on cement lintel
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Aug 6, 2013
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Shibby
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