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Hi, I have a wall to skim in my sisters house which has a lot of cracking so need some advice on how to prepare the wall. The top quarter is part lime/horse hair from the late 1800s and part browning/finish from the early 1990s so should be fine to skim over. Below that is S+C/multi applied by...

Hi, a chunk of concrete has fallen off my Mums outhouse porch ceiling. The hole is about 40mm at the deepest point. How do I go about preparing this for render? Do I need to put something on the rusty rebar and will a bonding agent be required? Also can I build up render in successive coats to...

Hello again, I have a sandstone 1st floor bedroom wall to plaster in my sisters house. It's approximately 400mm thick with no damp issues. The lime plaster above the window was blown so I've knocked it off and I'm left with a timber lintel (which iv screwed plasterboard to) and about 300mm of...

Hi, I have a bathroom to skim but I first need to float the walls flat as there are lots if hollows and bumps. The existing plaster is browning with skim coming off in places after removing the old tiles. I plan to remove loose finish, pva all walls, then use bonding to flatten them, then pva...