Recent content by niknaks

to be fair I am not having a dig at the plasterer he is my friends brother inlaw and only charged me £20....I rang in a panic said I need this bit of border damage replastered I did not want whole wall and I think he assumed I was decorating after not before so he would not have known the paint...

the plasterer came back repvad the whole wall then skimmed the wall for no extra charge but still the area where the fresh paint is doing the same thing.

i had painted around the border before it was plastered and then decided to plaster it so a couple of days?

He did the whole pva thing he says its the paint that is causing the problem....is this possible??

I recently had a small section of wall replastered after taking off a border. To my horror the plaster bubbled when it dried and flaked off. My plasterer says its a reaction to fresh wipeable paint i had painted above and below the new plaster...is this right and if so what on earth do I do...

hmm maybe I have got this even more wrong than I thought....some time ago I bought an outside double socket which is a waterproof box attached to it was a cable and on the end a large white plug witha 13 amp fuse and a reset button which was green. The plug part plugs into the house socket and...

Hello......some advice would be most appreciated...I have an outside double plug socket which is attached to a large white rcd which has broken...my helpful neighbour cut the plug off and replaced it with an old plug from a hand held mixer and simply swapped the fuses from the rcd and the said...

hello would like to ask what might appear to be a really stupid question but its not stupid to me...... If you have damp coming thru your walls and the render on your house is cracked and missing in some areas will a new coat of render with a nice sponge and float finish stop the wet/damp coming...