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    How would you sort this crack?

    Cheers @paulf & @Stewie03 , it's a big job and I need the final payment for Xmas bill, can't afford to wait until door is hung. I did nail through timber, done the whole house like that, even used long nail on purpose. If I'm to leave the bead in, is it worth putting a bit of CT1 or similar...
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    How would you sort this crack?

    The whole thing is a boarded doorway frame where sliding doors will be hung and there's now 1.5m crack alongside left angle bead where the arrow pointed. I have nailed the bead secure but dunno why it now has tiny movement when press hard with thumb. What's the best way to sort it out? I was...
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    Best Artex Sealer?

    no joke, it a top floor flat in a high up seaside building and the lease doesn't allow overboard on top floor flats.
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    Best Artex Sealer?

    It was overboaded but now has now being removed to make it easy to monitor leaks of flat roof, so not an option anymore. It's just artex on concrete ceiling now. Thanks, is Ronafix SBR any different from Everbuild or Wickes SBR?
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    Best Artex Sealer?

    What the best artex sealer or the most fail proof method for skim over Artex nowadays if the cost of material isn't a concern? I've a got a large ceiling that's mixed with painted and unpainted artex, even the artex on painted area goes soft and wet for ages when spray water on it. I'm...
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    Bcoz the client doesn’t want to skim the whole wall. The other side of corner where the bricks are exposed will be boarded up and skimmed with Toupret to get a perfect finish for painting in one go, no spread is really needed in this job, except for the 3mm thin plaster but which I doubt any...
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    I'm in decorating, we do patch repair and small area skimming, anything bigger that'll bring about back and shoulder aches I told the client to have it done by a proper spread before we go in.
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    Thx guys, the radiator pipes are communal so can't touch them and can't board up. It's a 5 meter long wall only a small area (5-8cm width) along the corner edge that's blown and cracked. Client doesn't want to skim whole wall either so patch up is the only way. I'll SBR the brick anyway and...
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    How would you patch up one side of this external corner, where the current plaster is only about 3-4mm thick measured from brick? SBR + onecoat?
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    Skim over damp proof paint.

    I need to even out the suction too, the walls have some large patches repaired due to blown plaster from water damage. If there’s no known chemical reaction problem I might just use blue grit?
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    Skim over damp proof paint.

    The walls I saw this morning didn’t even have emulsion. I did a pva test and it was still wet after 30 min. Customer then texted and said it’s gone tacky and that’s like another 30min later. What did you do in the end? Grit before skim?
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    Skim over damp proof paint.

    Walls had lining paper removed and there’s a layer of damp proof paint stuck well on the wall, kinda glossy. Can I treat it like any other gloss paint using WBA or Blue grit?
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    Bostik primer vs Blue grit coverage

    I usually give a quote listing materials (but not itemised) and labour separately and tell customers they can change materials but my rate is not negotiable. I am in decorating and most customers like to see what we put in. Walls that wallpapers were removed by customer but has many blown...
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    Bostik primer vs Blue grit coverage

    I rarely had any problem with blue grit apart from it takes time to apply correctly. I was looking for a cheaper alternative as customer are getting budget sensitive and found Bostik/Cementone Primer seem to be getting consistent praise about coverage here. However, their technical data sheet...
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    Expired Plaster Stored in garage

    Hi, I'm in decorating trade not a plasterer. Few bags of bonding, multi were bough late March just before lockdown and stored in client's garage, the expiry date were 20/June and 1/Jul. They just came out of shielding and ready to continue the decoration project. Is there any other issue of...
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