Recent content by Alan b

Get a steam stripper on to soften and remove the tile adhesive, pva the whole thing . The egg box thing you think is a door isn’t, the walls are slabs full of criss cross card seen loads of them in modern ish houses,just fill the gap with bonding, tape anything that looks suspect and skim. If...

It’s shite, Get the big sander oot

13 inch carbon steel Marshaltown

Marshaltown ss that is, F*****g auto correct

I’ve got a marshaltown as I only use for render, I find it too rigid

After reading something on here about a plastic lad being more forgiving on your body I invested in a 14 inch Refina plasiflex . For 35 years I’ve used an 11 and thirteen inch carbon steel marshal towns which are great. Is it just me or are the plastic ones shite, just can’t seem to get the...

What do you lot recommend for beading these? It’s simple enough with stair wells I just use thin coat beads and build it out a bit to humour the angle but on these big dormas the bead not fitting over because of it not being 90 degrees is a problem where it meets the vertical edges . Stop beads...

Shite, I bought Bosch ones they either fell to bits or blew something inside when getting a good workout. The genuine ones get hammered and just keep going

Shite beads?

Why is this happening? It never been a problem before

Too dear ! Lol

Blue grit first then skim

If it's dry put a sander over it , couple of coats of contract emulsion it will be fine

I've just done my place, belt and braces , hack off 1m, drill and inject, tanking slurry 2 coats, SBR and cement prime and cement render 2 coats with waterproofing salt inhibiting additive skim with multi or dab boards and skim

O keef's last thing every night so you don't wash it off , great stuff