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Had a funny one a few years ago when they put soundcoat in hardwall bags, that was a ballache, and couple of months ago they seem to have put bonding 60 in normal bonding bags, it was going off like a rocket These things happen in factories.

Don't do it Harry, that should be in a museum.

Malcolm McLaren 'killed by asbestos in s*x shop' Malcolm McLaren, the former s*x Pistols manager, may have died from exposure to asbestos he suffered while smashing up his punk fashion shop, his partner has said. The 64-year-old had vandalised the shop, from which he spawned British punk...

No treble Zero, I was busy that day and couldn't make it down to the doctors, Now who the bloody hell are you and how do you know my name?

how will you stop a 300 x 300 repaired hole in a rendered wall from cracking, I'm assuming the hole goes right through the wall,

post pictures of before and after.

put a blank plate of some description over it, you'll never blend it in. or a vent plate

No, she was alright cause she had been on an asbestos awareness course.

there was a bloke called Malcom Mc Claren in the 1970's who had a shop in the Kings Rd in London, he was a punk, he thought it would be good fun one day to smash a big hole in the ceiling above his tills in the shop, ceiling was riddled with asbestos. It took about 40 years but he eventually did...

pure vandalism, should be a law against it.

I remember when I was about 19 we did a job on her house in Hampstead, London (la de da) I remember she always had this look on her face as if we smellled, we probably did.

dab the wall with a sheet of 15 mm fireline board (pink board) and plaster. cut it tight and don't leave any gaps.

fao the member Tapit, you have anything to do with this...

yeah, put the mesh on with the base coat not the top coat.

should have used metal beads

no silicone on edges of render ?

no, he refused to pay himself due to poor workmanship.

I'm using something like this on a job at the moment aswell, very red looking sand, I'd describe it as fine fine sharp, seems ok, from travis perkins, probably wouldn't go too weak on it, and mix it a bit stiff, spreads and rules off ok.

get a fibrous plasterer to do the work, that's what they're there for.

3D printer

It should be quite soft, if you get a fine toothed padsaw and insert it and gently twist it you should be able to widen the hole to the required size,

I've never heard of anyone on the cards doing price work, you should get down the citizens advice bureau.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10208554.brighton-residents-hit-with-120k-repair-bill/ A group of residents face a bill for tens of thousands of pounds after insurers ruled a botched repair job had left their homes at risk of collapse. Beyond repair According to the leaseholder, who did not...

I'm not a rendering expert, but I think your best bet might be to fill the cracks with SBR and then render over the top with some type of thin coat system with mesh. If you hack it off there is no guarantee your gable end wouldn't collapse. the render is probably holding it together.

25mm insulated plasterboard dabbed with tile adhesive and drilled and fixed with plastic hammer fixings ?

I've already called my guy on the ground in China, Peter Jones says he's in, manufacturing starts on Monday, this time next year we'll be worth a hundred quid.

only be a matter of time before some one invents a skim bead with hinges so you can set the angle.

can be useful on occasion, those 3 mm stop beads can go a bit wavy you wouldn't do it on a building site.

you could do a stop bead on each edge, like making a bespoke angle bead, would add more strength. depends on how posh the customer is.

wetting the boards down helps as well, pro tip there for you.

will keep your trowels nice and shiny aswell.

Stress is one of the worst things for your health.

probably want screws aswell.

have you managed to get your tape invention into the shops yet? you would imagine every diy'er in the country would buy one roll of it. probably tradesmen aswell. that's about 10 million rolls, 5 pounds a roll, £50 million pounds.

at least you retained your sense of humour, you need one doing this s**t for a living.

there's a lot of cowboys around unfortunately.

Should be alright as it's been skimmed, tiler would probably have sealed the plaster before tiling aswell. If it would have been straight onto the normal plasterboard it could be a problem. Not recommended.

do they not come with instruction manuals ?

interesting, next time i'm on site and a carpenter runs out of pva I'll tell him to use sbr to glue his timbers together.

same as, only use I ever heard of sbr for is adding to neat cement for scudding walls or sealing screeds, I met one bloke once who told me he added it to sand and cement render and it wouldn't stick to the wall. I said nothing. at a push you might use it to seal an old wall, but sbr won't help...

is it scratch coated ?

you don't do all that on your own shurely?

scrape it back and see how much damage there is, it might only need a bit of painters filler and a coat of paint.

maybe he's just got a scary wife.

if he was in the back it won't matter, it's like being in a black taxi cab, as far as I'm aware you don't need to wear a seatbelt in the back of one of them.

use a plastic stop bead and snip it at intervals to get it to curve, maybe use a wooden template underneath aswell to help get the shape.

smooth it off with a damp wooden float.

wattle and daub, you might be best off using dung instead of mud, it will provide more strength when dry.