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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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.
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...
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?
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?
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?
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...
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...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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?
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?
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...
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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