plaster

Hi everyone, I’m currently getting my whole house plastered after a full rewire and was wondering how it’s best to dry out the plaster. The house currently doesn’t have the central heating working and as you guys may know it’s 4/5 degrees outside in daylight and lower at night. I’ve read...

Hello, My husband and I have already taken down a partition wall and unattractive cupboard in our kitchen, we have yet to take the ceiling down. We are then having a new ceiling and walls re plastered. Whilst doing research online I discovered that some properties have asbestos I the walls...

Hi, Looking for advice with a Hygroscopic salt(?) stain. It does not seem to get worse/larger but reappears after decorating (painting). The facts: Property is brick Victoria-era (mid 1880s) There are no issues with flaking paintwork, white fluff/salt tide marks - just a reappearing stain...

Have lived in our house for around 3 years now, and this has got progressively worse every autumn/winter. Have had a couple people look at it, and they all say something different. Have topped up the sealant to the uPVC windows on the outside. House is semi detached, and around 100 years old. We...

Hi All, Large sections of my bedroom wall (external) had blown plaster. I think that it’s a case of many years of non breathable paint and a modern skim coat had basically suffocated the wall. It’s a lime pointed solid wall, with internal lime render. Anyway, I’ve decided to strip it all off...

I am a total beginner to plastering / rendering other than filling the occasional ding in the wall. I am planning on applying a parge coat of Gyproc Soundcoat Plus to an internal party wall which is constructed of aerated block. The instructions call for a 6mm thick layer so I have purchased...

Dear all, currently decorating a bedroom and above the main window the plaster was bulging and generally not looking good. I have knocked a lot of it off, and underneath there is a lot of salty residue that looks like it has literally pushed the plaster off. The house is 1950's with a cement...

Hi all, I'm trying to fill and paint over a hairline crack in my wall but I'm having an issues whereby however much filler I use, it seems to dry below the level of the surrounding plaster. I assume its shrinkage? I've tried both No Nonsense and EasiFill and both dry the same. Also tried...

Started to remove some coving trim under the main coving. Seems to have this yellow fibre mixed in with what I think is plaster. Anyone know what this is? Is it safe to remove? Worried it could be something linked with asbestos. House was built in the early 70s. Did think it could be horse hair...

Hey, I’ve recently been doing a rewire on our house and all the walls are dot & dabbed and the interior walls upstairs are simply 3 layers of plasterboard (the middle being slightly thicker). I’ve been cutting out the sockets and switches no problem until one switch I started cutting was a...

Hi I'm doing up the living room and I've had it plastered including inside the fireplace which has a log burner in it. The plasterer has put fibreboard inside the fireplace and not skimmed it because he said the heat would crack the plaster. Planning to paint this board with heat proof paint...

Hi! I have had a little patch, about the size of a large coin on my exterior kitchen wall, then keeps pushing outwards/cracking/splitting. If I repair it with filler, it’s fine for about a month, then gradually happens again. Any ideas? Photos attached.

Hi Trying to screw in a book wall unit to wall however wall crumbles over an inch before actually hitting brick. I remember having to pay a professional to hang TV on the same wall and he had to call another person to help him a few years back. I know have a massive whole, which I'm happy to...

Hi, I'm about to install two Velux windows between trusses in my kitchen, creating plasterboard light shafts around them. Once done I plan to have a plasterer knock down and skim over the artex in the rest of the kitchen ceiling. I'd like to keep the costs low and the job as easy as possible...

Hi I've got a solid brick wall that has got several sheets of plasterboard over it so that the plasterboard is about 50mm thick and this wall is tiled. I want to hang quite a heavy mirror on this wall. Would I be best get a really long wall plug like 120mm long plug fitted so that open end of...

Hi, I am in the late stages of finishing a property renovation and need some advice on plastering/skim. We have a plan for a chimney breast integrated shelf to house a sky box/dvd. With cable runs running behind the new dot and dab. The cupboard is positioned in the old fireplace opening...

Hi Decorating a bedroom and when removing 30 year old wood chip wallpaper, the plaster fell off with it in places. It’s only a small area about 5 feet by 1 foot. It’s hard to describe but that part of the wall is only 5 foot tall. It looks like it was done at a different time from the rest of...

I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...

I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes.... When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house. It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...

Hi, i've repaired this section of wall and built up with sand/cement.. i need to bring up as a finish filling a depth of around 2.5cm and then paint same as rest of the wall... whats the best method? Thanks in advance!