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Thanks for this....I have seen Zinnser products in the past and thought they seemed quite good....I'll give it a whirl. Water based paint just runs off, oil based goes all stringy, doesn't key and doesn't dry out properly, but I have just tried another paint on it which sticks without any...

Thanks.....got a product name? I had looked at some of them (eg for floors) but the manufacturers seem to suggest the surfaces must be free of grease and 'other agents', a category in which I would think silicone belongs?? I've found a sack in my shed, so if all else fails..... JA

I have an area of internal plaster into which silicone solvent based injected dpc has leached.....It is not a large area, but I don't particularly want to have to start chopping off and replastering (and anyway, it's in the brickwork behind the plaster, so no doubt it would leach into new...

Would you bother to scribe the 'batten' to the u/s of the slates and/or seal it with some mastic? JA

Yep.....I would have done that, if the roof hadn't already been prepared for a felt finish.....but......... I suppose I could add a, say, 60mm PSE batten to the bargeboard, like a 'trim', which goes up to the underside of the slates (omitting the undercloak) and covering the the batten...

Well....what a mess I made of that... I am extending a timber frame/studwork shed, turning the whole thing into a workshop, but the more I did, the better it got, so I thought I could use it for my office. The problem is, although I was originally going to felt the roof, so it is all...