Recent content by 123abc

With all the respect to you Professionals lets clarify few things. In my first post I clearly said that the wall has been rendered, half of it with cement and the other half with lime. You have to understand that people who ask questions on this forum have either very little or no knowledge at...

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Disaster!!! I did PVA the wall (5:1) yesterday and twice today (3:1). Still the plaster started cracking after only 15 min on the wall. I used B&Q branded PVA and Multi Finish, the wall is done with Thermalite blocks. What did I do wrong???

I would like to re-skim this internal wall on a 1930’s semi. It looks like the half of it’s been rendered with lime and half of it with cement. Can I just PVA and skim with multi finish? Or need to do something else first? And second question: Part of the plaster on the sealing has fallen off...