Recent content by Hazel Wood

Brilliant, thank you for all your help. I'm going to have to take the wallpaper off so I'm just hoping the whole wall doesn't come with it haha.

So I'm better off just going with the caulk saving stuff and polyfilla instead of replastering this section. What should I do with the gypsum plaster that's crumbling. I think it was put ontop of the lime plaster.

I'm in Ireland. I'm in Ireland. That doesn't sound good. This isn't the original stove we had when we had the flue installed, the other one was much bigger so maybe that's why. There's another horizontal at the top of the vertical because the chimney is crooked

There is wallpaper underneath the paint and in places up the wall there is visible orangish plaster(is that gypsum plaster?) There's a part further up on the wall where it's all orange underneath but it's crumbling and flaky. Does it look like I have to replaster the whole wall? Our family that...

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Great, thank you!! Realised I said chalk instead of caulk oops

I'm only concerned with covering them nearest to the wall because obviously I can't cover the stove. There are high up on the left side and then low down on the right. It's a really old and wide chimney that arches at the top so I'm worried brick work would look weird and also come out too far...

How would you repair the wall? The wall gaps are quite big, I'm wondering should I put anything in it to reduce the size and then cover with filler or plaster. Sorry I'm a complete noobie

So chalk saver only in the staircase gaps and filler for the wall? Do I put anything else to repair the damaged wall, it would take a lot of filler.

Our house is almost 200 years old and the stairs is the original with a lot of repairs. As you can see in the picture there are massive gaps between the wall and the stairs. How do I fix this?