Recent content by hm1986

Hi, i was wondering if anyone has any experience of houses with a lime plaster/render under slates in place of felt which is used nowadays, and how to go about repairing it? our house has a roof in generally good condition, no leaks or damaged slates, but the lime plaster on the underside of the...

thanks for your replies, i didnt actually do the plastering myself-we employed a so called professional to do the job so i cant really say how he used the pva, i only know that he used it really. there were some patches of slightly darker looking plaster on the walls as you have suggested...

thanks for your replies, but this isnt really working-having now decided to sand off all the paint back to the bare plaster and start again. I coated the walls with diluted dulux supermatt emulsion (2 coats), which appeared to take fine, and the applied a top coat of a water based emulsion paint...

well where i have scraped the peeling patches the mist coat has come away also, but it doesnt seem to be peeling everywhere just relatively small random patches?

hi no there were no issues with damp in thr room-it was re-rendered due to old render droping off when new windows were fitted and generally not being vrery straight.the walls are cavity walls, and it is just the paint which has cracked.

the cracks that appeared were not near any areas of real heat, other end of the room from the radiator. I probably diluted the paint about 3 parts paint to 1 part water, gave it t2 coats before puting on the top coat.Wouyld say the plaster was polished, more dull but felt very dry to touch...

Hi, I'm currently redoing our bathroom, and have had all the walls replastered(rendered then skimmed), and have now started painting.The walls have been left for approx 2 months to dry out and now appear totaly dry, and I have coated them with a diluted coat of mat emulsion, which appeared to...