Recent content by brid

Hi there. Recently had some work done to the exterior of the house (painted render over bricks) to clean our roof, tidy up fascias/soffits, replace guttering and chip out old air bricks to replace with new, as well as patching in cracks and the like before painting over on top. The paint has...

Hi there - i've taken two of my bedrooms back to bare brick and blockwork to have the whole thing boarded with either celotex or kingspan k18 and then skimmed over, to improve the thermals of the rooms. We currently have some window boards which are going to be replaced with nice oak boards...

Another slight change of plan ;) Had my dad look at it, with decades more experience than me, and after seeing my first attempt which was just about level, and more than solidly set, we agreed that it made no real point ripping the walls and board out, just go go all the way back through the...

Yep, the plasterer advised me to cut back the old board (interior window 'sill') by chiselling off the front and to sit a new board on top of it, leaving the old board to be plastered back into the wall. His advice was to leave the old board there as the removal of it would be a nightmare...

On advice of my plasterer coming in later this week we have chiselled out the front of our old window board which is installed into a 'notch' at the bottom of the reveal. We have been told to leave the old board, which will be plastered into the walls which are all being skimmed and the window...