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I live in the Blackpool area and as I am female find that tradesmen who come round do the sucking through the teeth thing and say its gonna cost you love! They are then putting in ridiculous quotes for thousands of pounds to for example fit and supply a basic white bathroom suite takin 3 days...

Thanks for that. Whats an sbr slurry? Do i treat the area with this after removing the offending plaster and before apllying the new skim?

I have been in my new money pit for 6 weeks. We have a damp patch on a wall from the ceiling line down about a foot. The patch gets damp when it rains and then dries out it never gets any bigger. The wall is a chimney breast and the room is directly under a dormer loft conversion. I have taken...