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    First attempt

    There's about £2.50 worth of plaster on the wall, a little sanding and a bit of filling and it'll do me. 1700 grade lining paper and two coats of paint will cover a lot of the rest of it. The pink vertical line on the original wall was plasterboard from where a beam was installed in the wall...
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    First attempt

    I'm not arrogant enough to think I could do a plasterers job, but for £20 of materials I can get something good enough for us (always intended to paper over) and bank the other £150/whatever we would have paid a plasterer to spend on something else. FWIW, we paid a plasterer to do our ceiling...
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    First attempt

    It was probably from this page: Trowelling Plaster. How to obtain smooth finish "You should be able to run your trowel over the wall and push the plaster around to flatten. If when you run your trowel over the wall it starts to gather plaster then all you are doing is scraping the second coat...
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    First attempt

    Okay, so first shot at plastering a wall this weekend - we're lining and painting it afterwards so wasn't too worried about a polished finish, just wanted it reasonably flat, but obviously want to get better at it if it's something I'll be doing again. :) Not sure what you're able to tell from...
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    Patch up or re-render?

    Thanks - being Glasgow based, it's certainly been very wet dash the last few days..... :) There is a cavity with insulation already installed, not sure to what standard though. The house can get cold, but think that's through the uninsulated suspended wooden floor. Is there a website that goes...
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    Patch up or re-render?

    Thanks - being Glasgow based, it's certainly been very wet dash the last few days..... :) There is a cavity with insulation already installed, not sure to what standard though. The house can get cold, but think that's through the uninsulated suspended wooden floor. Is there a website that...
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    Patch up or re-render?

    ... 'done' before the cavity wall insulation was fitted, not 'down'...
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    Patch up or re-render?

    New to all of this, triggered into action by a bit of render falling off in the recent storms. But we actually have (a small amount of) water leaking into our porch from the external wall (probably from the ridge halfway up), so it's probably worth doing something before it gets worse. a) I'm...
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