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Newbie Mess going on here in Aus. I'm sand cement base coat onto newish bricks. I cleaned then sealed with our uni-bond (Bondcrete) at a fairly weak mix (say 1: 6 or 7) then after that dried I applied a stronger PVA coat around 1:2 or 3 and let that get dryish, it didn't seem to be tacky though...

Thanks Johniosaif, Umm... pardon my ignorance, but SBR is that some sort of a liquid rubber solution? I like the sound of this advice, but as I'm in Aus.... I need to find the type of product that fit's the bill, that is available here. So if you can describe it I should be able to track it...

Hi all, Looking for some good advice, I have to plaster up some fairly rough bricks with a good sand cement base in a new shower area to then take an applied Crommelins waterproofing layer prior to tiling. In places this base will need to be a good depth.... say around 20mm or more. I want to...

Thanks Bob, We've got a week of over 40 degrees coming up, so now would be the time to try your resin filler. Would you be suggesting this just as an expansion jointing idea with regular compound to flush the joint smooth over the top or will this resin flush smooth itself and be a paintable...

Thanks for all of your advice guys.... intrigued that we still talk about "artex" sort of textured flexible coatings. Dannymac, Re: your off topic question about Perth.... Your pretty right in what you've heard, we've got very strong employment and depending on your line, some pretty good money...

Yep, and we don't generally give a XXXX - until our taping and jointing goes, how do you say... "Pete Tong" ?

Thanks guys, It's failed on every gyprock joint, tapered and butt joints. There are only a couple of joints without tension wires, but they've failed too. (though perhaps to a slightly lesser extent, though they are also in a slightly "cooler" location) Am I right in thinking these failures...

The mesh type tape cracked even worse, I used it first up and assumed that it was the issue that caused the cracking as someone said that mesh tape shouldn't be used on ceilings (eben if it is a raking one?) ... but I really don't know, I'm certainly no expert! Bubbles may have a point about...

So what's Scrim tape.... I've tried the fibreglass mesh type, that's no good for this type of thing. We don't have many other options here that I know of. And when you say compound... I was using jointing compound. But to my untrained eye, there's so much movement involved it's gonna come back...

Hi All, I'm in Western Australia; There was a pine timber ceiling with exposed rafters every 1200 (4ft) with corrugated tin roof over that. There were small timber collar ties at the height of the stainless tension wires I've replaced them with and the pine ceiling was fixed to the 50mm collar...