plaster

Hi guys, Please can you help me. I have an issue with the bathroom walls and ajoining ceilings. I'm trying to redecorate and paint seems to be flaking off.... With the curve it's hard to get in there with the paint scraper and sandpaper.... As you can see in the pictures the skimmed plaster...

Hi everyone, I recently had new upvc windows installed around my house. We have an issue in particular with the kitchen window. We notice more when it’s been raining that there is surface water in the bottom corners on the plaster around the window. I wipe it away and it comes back. When...

Hi. We are building an extension and laying new floors inside the existing house as well. We are managing the job ourselves, but seems like we are making lots of mistakes, relying on "specialists" trades instead of doing our own research to get the right solutions. I know we got it wrong, so...

Following replastering of my wall I have waited five months for the wall to dry out. This will sound like a crazy amount of time but I have had a slight damp patch where the timber has been historically soaked with water ingress. The exterior brickwork was fixed prior to replastering but it...

Morning all, Quick query regarding dry lining. We have a late 1800s cottage that has suffered all of the worst years of household decorating fashions. Our front bedroom has the dreaded woodchip and, after it took 2 of us 4 solid days (12-14 hour shifts) removing it from the much smaller...

Hi everyone, What’s your opinion regarding quality of painting and plastering on the photos below? Not everything was replastered, only the ceiling on the first photo actually Is the painter responsible to fill and sand everything or not? Is it ok he didn’t paint behind the radiators? In case...

Hi, I had a new bathroom fitted 5 months ago, following a leak that went through the floor into the ceiling below. It was a total refurb, new flooring, new tiles etc. I have some tile, some fresh plaster, this has not been painted yet, as I can't decide on a colour. Every time I run the bath...

Hi, Having a bit of trouble finding a plasterer to make good the area around some new windows I've had fitted. I've had a few quotes and I keep getting told different things. The main thing I'm trying to avoid is huge architrave that covers the whole span of the gap. One person told me there...

Hello, Just stripped the wallpaper in one of the rooms in my 1910s-ish home and am a little stumped by what type of plaster is on the wall. It is white with dark inclusionsamd a rough surface. At first I assumed this was lime plaster. But it is in very good condition and the only...

Hi all, We are currently week 7 into our garage conversion and the doors and windows have just been installed and plasterboard and plaster now completed by our builders. Whilst we were painting the room, we noticed the plasterboard and plaster actually goes over the door/window frames which I’ve...

Getting an outbuilding built at the moment, permitted development but constructing it to building regs. My builder did drywall and plaster followed by screed, but now I'm worried there's a hidden defect as the plaster has seemingly absorbed moisture from the screed. Should I be worried?

Hey everyone, Long story short, I got two big patches of plasterboard ripped out either side of the chimney breqst builders opening. I plan to use Thistle base coat (hardwall) into the large patches. After that I plan to apply multifinish coat. Is that okay? Should I also cover the small...

Hello, Looking for some advice about primer. We have stripped the walls in our 1930s house. The walls are in quite good condition, nice and flat. In one room, we have sanded down, filled any minor dents, painted one coat of basic white emulsion, then our colours on top. The problem is, the...

Hi all, won't be long before I'm plasterboarding my new extension. I was just looking for a few suggestions on the best alternatives to 'dot n dab'. The boards will be going on new blockwork (typical block/insulation/external brickwork). I don't want to use dot n dab. I know its tried and...

Hi, I have just done a mist coat on a newly plastered wall. There are patches where the mist coat doesn’t seem to have taken fully. Would this be ok to paint over in 24 hours? Or do I need to put something else on the wall?

Hi all, From the pictures you may be able to see that I had heavily damaged plaster and a damp patch on the right hand side of my wall. After investigation, it was realised that poor guttering had led to water contact with the brick and it had eroded the external brickwork. This was then...

Hi I am trying to decorate a room in our new house which is on the first floor of a 80s double storey extension. I have found a lot of blown Plaster on one wall particularly. The would have been the original external brick wall, I'm guessing is blown because of what it was applied to. There's...

Hi, We recently moved into a new house and stripped a bedroom of really thick wallpaper that had also been painted. On taking off the wall paper it has also removed some of the primer / mist coat from the plaster in some quite big patches on two walls (see photos). We want the end finish to...

Hi guys. Wondering if anyone can shed some thoughts on removing mock tudor beams? Surprisingly, there is very little info on this online and where forums threads have started, the responses are overwhelmingly based on 'don't do it! spruce it up!' its got character'. I have had some quotes but...

Would be really grateful for any advice on this. So, I moved into a top floor flat in a 1960s flat-roofed block in March. The photos are of a crack in the bedroom. It runs from the window horizontally, along an external wall, then round the corner along the wall with the stairwell. From the...