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    How would you sort this crack?

    Cheers @paulf & @Stewie03 , it's a big job and I need the final payment for Xmas bill, can't afford to wait until door is hung. I did nail through timber, done the whole house like that, even used long nail on purpose. If I'm to leave the bead in, is it worth putting a bit of CT1 or similar...
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    How would you sort this crack?

    The whole thing is a boarded doorway frame where sliding doors will be hung and there's now 1.5m crack alongside left angle bead where the arrow pointed. I have nailed the bead secure but dunno why it now has tiny movement when press hard with thumb. What's the best way to sort it out? I was...
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    Best Artex Sealer?

    no joke, it a top floor flat in a high up seaside building and the lease doesn't allow overboard on top floor flats.
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    Best Artex Sealer?

    It was overboaded but now has now being removed to make it easy to monitor leaks of flat roof, so not an option anymore. It's just artex on concrete ceiling now. Thanks, is Ronafix SBR any different from Everbuild or Wickes SBR?
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    Best Artex Sealer?

    What the best artex sealer or the most fail proof method for skim over Artex nowadays if the cost of material isn't a concern? I've a got a large ceiling that's mixed with painted and unpainted artex, even the artex on painted area goes soft and wet for ages when spray water on it. I'm...
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    Bcoz the client doesn’t want to skim the whole wall. The other side of corner where the bricks are exposed will be boarded up and skimmed with Toupret to get a perfect finish for painting in one go, no spread is really needed in this job, except for the 3mm thin plaster but which I doubt any...
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    I'm in decorating, we do patch repair and small area skimming, anything bigger that'll bring about back and shoulder aches I told the client to have it done by a proper spread before we go in.
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    Thx guys, the radiator pipes are communal so can't touch them and can't board up. It's a 5 meter long wall only a small area (5-8cm width) along the corner edge that's blown and cracked. Client doesn't want to skim whole wall either so patch up is the only way. I'll SBR the brick anyway and...
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    Very thin plaster on brickwall

    How would you patch up one side of this external corner, where the current plaster is only about 3-4mm thick measured from brick? SBR + onecoat?
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    Skim over damp proof paint.

    I need to even out the suction too, the walls have some large patches repaired due to blown plaster from water damage. If there’s no known chemical reaction problem I might just use blue grit?
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    Skim over damp proof paint.

    The walls I saw this morning didn’t even have emulsion. I did a pva test and it was still wet after 30 min. Customer then texted and said it’s gone tacky and that’s like another 30min later. What did you do in the end? Grit before skim?
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    Skim over damp proof paint.

    Walls had lining paper removed and there’s a layer of damp proof paint stuck well on the wall, kinda glossy. Can I treat it like any other gloss paint using WBA or Blue grit?
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    Bostik primer vs Blue grit coverage

    I usually give a quote listing materials (but not itemised) and labour separately and tell customers they can change materials but my rate is not negotiable. I am in decorating and most customers like to see what we put in. Walls that wallpapers were removed by customer but has many blown...
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    Bostik primer vs Blue grit coverage

    I rarely had any problem with blue grit apart from it takes time to apply correctly. I was looking for a cheaper alternative as customer are getting budget sensitive and found Bostik/Cementone Primer seem to be getting consistent praise about coverage here. However, their technical data sheet...
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    Expired Plaster Stored in garage

    Hi, I'm in decorating trade not a plasterer. Few bags of bonding, multi were bough late March just before lockdown and stored in client's garage, the expiry date were 20/June and 1/Jul. They just came out of shielding and ready to continue the decoration project. Is there any other issue of...
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    shallow oval conduit

    Just wondering what most of you do when oval conduits or capping almost flush or just few mm below wall surface. Get on with it? Remove it? Modify it to suit?
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    Bonding or hardwal

    Building control wasn’t happy with plasterboard so had to break off original beading in order to reboard, it will be beaded up again later. I am not a plasterer by trade but in the maintenance and decorating business and and have done many skimming and small patch repair but not much on big area...
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    Bonding or hardwal

    Prefer hardwall because no need to wait for pva, but would that small plasterboard section be a problem?
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    Leave bonding and hardwall for 3 days before skimming?

    Hi, Has anyone had any experience of leaving bonding and/or hardwall for 3 days before skimming? In an ideal world I’d like to do it in a day or next morning but in a flat where no work is allowed at weekends. I have several walls needing different base coat, I’d like to get all the base coat...
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    How thin can a bonding coat be?

    Tiler doesn't want to tile on bonding, something to do with chemical reaction with adhesive he says.
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    How thin can a bonding coat be?

    The whole flat has grey undercoat on brick all, they are definitely not sand cement, several builder says it's bonding from 50 years ago. I said bonding+skim for tiling because it's the only combination I have done before for tiling so far.
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    How thin can a bonding coat be?

    thanks, I may be over thinking this, but will a thin bonding coat unable to hold tiles? will it also cracked easier on painted finished?
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    How thin can a bonding coat be?

    With skim coat that'd be about 12mm, a bit too thick for my goal though.
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    How thin can a bonding coat be?

    The backgrounds would be brick wall, currently still have grey colour bonding+skim coat plastered in the 60s/70s. Double-tiled top to bottom so I removed the tiles and surface is very uneven now. I'm contemplating if I should hack all plaster off and re-plaster all over to get the thickness I want.
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    How thin can a bonding coat be?

    Hi guys, Does anyone knows if there's a minimum thickness of bonding coat if the wall is to be 1.skimmed & painted, and 2.skimmed + tiled. I went through several google pages with different keywords and couldn't really any answer on this one. I'd really like to have a full size dishwasher in...
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    How to tackle this wall

    Thanks, what problems should I expect with inconsistent suction when putting on 1st multi? Difficult to apply? having bubble? or showing cracks when it's dried up? how much drying time should I give before 2nd multi coat? 24hr or several days?
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    How to tackle this wall

    Thanks, I don't plan to d&d for the same reason you've mentioned. Can I ask why you would use s&c + hardball instead of bonding? I am actually thinking of using bond-it instead of PVA, would this be a better choice?
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    How to tackle this wall

    Thanks, I know you are right, but all 4 walls in kitchen are like this so I was hoping there's a less dusty solution. Thanks. The old plaster (I assumed is bonding) is already 12mm. How much thickness can I add to it? If I'm to add 3mm of new bonding on top of it, it means I will be putting at...
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    How to tackle this wall

    Hi the plaster pros, I am renovating my flat and would really appreciate if I can get some advice how to tackle this kitchen wall please? I can just about to plaster new plaster board and bricks but don't have any experience with old wall. So, about 3/4 of the wall is an inside of an external...
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