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The only person to give good advice so far on this site was pmertonplasterer, he new what he was talking about, most of the rest I wouldnt touch with a barge pole as you give your profession a bad name

Sorry just realised its Friday, so most of you would have been in the pub and this is the drink talking

I came to this website for advice but apart from a couple of people you just throw insults about

Gps- As I have said numerous times the damp proof company rendered up to the 1 metre mark then a separate plastering company boarded and plastered the remaining wall. Yes this is a cavity wall and yes it has been injected as all my other properties have been when there is a damp issue. The...

At last someone that understands and yes I did mean membrane rather than polythene and Im assuming I meant cold spots rather than damp patches. The plasterer says he is not responsible so who do I get out to do a report for me

I am looking for professional advice. Has the plasterer done the job correctly by dot and dabbing the boards directly to a gable end cavity wall

The damp proof company rendered upto the 1 metre mark and there is no patches coming through. It is above this mark were the plasterer has dot and dabbed the boards directly to the brick were the marks are

who is right, the damp proofer saying there needs to be a barrier between the boards and the brickwork or the plasterer saying you dot and dab the boards directly on to the brickwork. The wall now looks like someone has repeatadley kicked a dirty football against it

There is NO dampness coming through the render just the boards

The question is - Is the plasterer to blame for fixing the boards direct to the brick wall

because i had all the sh#t taken out when the damp proof course was done

1930s

The damp patches are coming through the dot and dab adhesive into the plaster boards

No it is a cavity wall

As I said it was rendered to the 1 meter mark then boarded up to the ceiling. I wasnt there when they did the job, so didnt know that it hadnt been latted. Looking to find out what a good plasterer would do

9 months ago I had the gable end wall plaster taken back to brick, then damp proofed and rendered to 1 meter. Damp proofer told plasterer not to dot and dab plasterboards direct to brick but to put polythene or similar before latting then boarding. Now all the places were the adhesive touches...