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Is there any reason why I can't use lime-based undercoat plaster to fill holes about 1" wide and 15mm deep in 100 year old lime plaster? I have approx. 50 holes where rawl plugs have been removed to sort. Am thinking it might turn into a lot of effort building the depth up in such a small area...

I went to Womersleys and spoke to them about filling chases. They said lime putty / sand struggles to stick to PVC cables so I could bed the cables in Grippa then lime putty and sand over the top. Should I try to push lime putty / sand into the sides of the chase and around the conduit or is...

Hi I've got a few chases above light switches in original victorian lime plastered walls to fill. The chases look like the one shown in the photo... they're 75mm wide, 15mm deep and contain 2 bits of 25mm wide oval conduit side by side, clipped into the back of the chase. The top surface of...

What with hot water? I thought it wouldn't just sit on the surface of the brick and would be absorbed in...

Hi I know this isn't a lime specific query, but I figured lime plasterers were more likely to have come up against this... If you take a wall patch plastered with a gypsum backing coat (Thistle bonding) back to brick, how do you clean off the PVA used to seal the wall (to replaster with lime...