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My first question would be is are we looking at finish floor level as is. If not you would need to lift your door lining up the relevant amount, there should be a datum line around 1metre up from FFL. Or your door will be buried in the screed :RpS_laugh: Next you should try a level and straight...

Sorted now thanks. I chopped off and drylined the worst wall and skimmed over the rest over PVA. Decorated now and looks great. It's amazing how much skimming makes you ache when you're not accustomed to it :RpS_blink:

Fair comment. Trying to tell the difference between the two isn't always easy though.

Thanks. I did wonder whether to mesh any cracks first, it's not that loose on the wall but you can hear it sounding a bit odd in places if I rap it with my knuckles. Fibres sound like a good alternative I'll just have to try and find who sells them locally.

I was taught how to float and skim 20yrs ago at Leicester College by a racist plastering instructor in the mould of Alf Garnett. I could do it but I don't want the mess in an occupied house. I still have my Marshaltown Extra-lites from then and they come out to play maybe once a year to do a...

I'm not a plasterer but I can skim good areas to a reasonable standard and have a bedroom that needs the walls sorting. I don't want to float so it's either overskim what is there or knock it all off and board the walls then skim them. In an effort to avoid the mess of going back to...