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Thanks Roy for your considered response - VERY helpful and your options to repair seem excellent. I will get a plasterer around who I have used before and see which option of those you have outlined he favours. I will let you know in the next few weeks how it goes. Once again , thank you.

Attached are two pictures - one before I hacked off the loose render and one after the stuff was hacked off. In terms of actually getting the work done ...will the plasterer do cement rendering or is that another trade. Alternatively , could a plasterer just use bonding or something similar...

That sounds like an excellent solution - thanks. However , I will put up some pics tomorrow.

Thanks Roy for your swift reply. On further investigation I can see that the construction is different to what I thought. I don't think that steel beams are present , I am fairly sure it is simply reinforced concrete horizontal 'beams' - all I can reveal is a flat hard surface on which render...

Hi folks. I would really appreciate some advice on the following problem from the 'pros' out there. I live in a 1970's top floor flat. I think the construction of the 6 story building was steel beams filled in with bricks to form the walls and a flat roof. On nearly all the walls near the...

Hi folks. I would really appreciate some advice on the following problem from the 'pros' out there. I live in a 1970's top floor flat. I think the construction of the 6 story building was steel beams filled in with bricks to form the walls and a flat roof. On nearly all the walls near the...