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Hey Danny, I'll give a look at that product as I never worked with it, thanks for the suggestion! As I need to fix some small cracks (I'll v shape them and put some filler and tape on top of them), do you think that this product will cover those too? Or it will be too thin? Many thanks for your...

Hi everyone! On renovating my guest room I am planning to skim the walls. While the paint seems to be okay (meaning is not falling down) the plaster beneath is really below standards, there are scratches and bits, so I'd like to skim over it. I have some blue grit at home, and I plan to put it...

Will do! (y)

Gotcha, thank you! I gave it another look and yes, the surface doesn't seems so in bad shape that needs a new layer of boding. I will definitely fill the holes, cover in PVA and then go with multi finish. Many thanks for your help!

Thank you for your reply @Pwl, the sand and cement seems solid, I think that originally cracked (very thin cracks) due to the fact that it dried too fast, at least that's my guess. Do you advise against putting bonding and then skimming even if I make the bonding layer very thin? If so, what...

Thank you for your input here @Nath80 . Thing is that the surface is less than 2.5sqm, it's one wall of the smallest en-suite of the house (my own house) in a guest room. I could take three months and take my time doing that, it really wouldn't matter to me. I already have all the tools, worst...

Thank you for your reply @Slothai , this is what I was thinking of, and I am glad someone is giving real suggestions. I am not sure why in a DIY forum just a few people gives real DIY tips... I understand that if I do that and it's my first site plastering attempt, the surface won't be entirely...

Are you referring to the Angle bead area? If so, before there was simply multi finish...anyway that's not exactly the external wall, the external wall is made of very small small stones... I am not sure how that's called sorry, I am not an English native speaker nor from UK

If someone has any other input, I was thinking of brushing this sand and cement with water, apply a layer of thistle bonding and then thistle multifinish. Any thoughts on that? :)

I have reached out to three professionals, one didn't show up, another refused the job on the phone as it was too small (again, it's only one wall 90cm large and 230cm tall) and the third told me that he would have accepted it only if he could plaster over the paint and that was definitely a no...

Hi @MakeItSmooth , thanks for your reply. Yes, all the info I got so far were suggesting to use 3:1 water and PVA but that was for walls that already had a smooth layer. This s&c (thanks!) is very dry and dusty so it looks like I need something more, perhaps I need to buy Thistle GypPrime. Any...

Hi @Stewie03 , thank you for the first productive answer :) Yes I don't mean to fill those, I was trying to reply to the first message and explain that I just removed the think coat with a simple scraper, and I am not trying to "let my house falls down". This rough plaster is still solid and I...

Hi everyone! As some of you might know, I am renovating my small ensuite. Since the paint was peeling in some area and I didn't want to risk further issues after skimming over it, I started removing all the paint... what a job! I bought a paint stripper but it seems that steam is what actually...

I'll see if I can borrow one of that and try, many thanks!

A flexible pipe is going from the ceiling (although like I said, it's not well attached) then to a in-line extractor and then from the extractor there's another flexible pipe going into the external part of the roof. It does looks powerful I think it just needs new pipes. I'll surely share the...