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Cheers Taybar, I shall google it this evening and let you know how i get on. Many thanks

Afternoon all, I need to repair a stone window sill that has crumbled in places and is causing some damp. My thought was to suspend some ply underneath as a former to build it back to a square edge, and to run a bead of sealant along the front edge to create a drip groove. Would a 1:5 mortar...

Cheers roughcaster, and agreed. FYI it was bonding coat, and as a pure diy-er not only do i need all the leeway i can get, it also means that i end up with leftovers hanging around for some time before being needed. I was also hoping for a hefty discount, which they claimed to give me, but which...

quick word of warning-my local travis perkins are selling out of date plaster, and there warehouseman thought it may be a store wide problem. even worse they offered me a rubbish discount when i bought this to their attention

Ahh, give the poor bloke a break! :roll: Personally, I found removing the piles of rubble dumped under the floorboards by some previous builder, which then got soaked by leaking waste pipes from the bathroom was a slightly better solution than the £6000 quote for the chemical treatment.