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I need to repair a small area of plaster damaged by a water leak. A salt retardent plaster/render has been specified. Just phoned a couple of merchants and they dont seem to stock anything. Whats the easiest/cheapest way to do this ?

Im in the proces of renovating my porch. The ceiling is plasterboard and has been painted. It is open to the air but not exposed directly to rain, snow etc. My intention was to put a thin coat of render on the ceiling which is actualy on a 45 degree angle and then paint it. I rendered it...

I want to try th MP finish but can't find anywhere in the Portsmouth area that stocks it. Anyone fom down this way know?

That looks like it was printed around the time of the first original bible. There obviously isn't any mention of trowels or such like, in those days they covered the walls with horse manure, mud and straw applied with their hands.

I am preparing one of my bathroom walls for tiling. The problem is that the existing rendered and set wall is higher than the adjoining pb section. I started to hack off the surface of the rendered section to get it roughly level with the pb. This, however, is proving difficult as it is well...

Cheers for the replies. Essexandy, your correct the book does say to rule off your finish which i have tried when skimming less that flat walls and it don't work. No surprises there then. Do you advocate using a float for your second coat, i can see how it can make it flatter but if this is...

Hi all. Just registered but been looking in for a while. I'm just a diyer but been reading in an book about scouring finish with a wooden float. I know this was touched on in the recent 'sponge float on finish' debate but i have been trying it on an old piece of pb to varying levels of success...