Recent content by sidecarjon

Well they way i "fixed it" was... dug as much out as i could. Sprayed the remaining with car spray paint primer, in lots of very thin mistings. that was the only way i could get it to "fix" at all. I then put mortar in the dug out holes and screeded over it all...i put a scoop full of the powder...

yes tried all that, the brush just pulls the dust out and it rolls down. Thats why i tried spraying the solution from a kitchen spray thing. It just wetted the topermost surface which then rolled out again...ive sort of decided its never going to be stable enough to screed and needs digging out!

Hello all, im in a spot of trouble. After a simple Wood burner change got out of hand, im presented with a meter square hole in the wall where a "Cornish range" once was fitted. It looks to have been a bit bigger than the hole but the 1970's builders only had a short lintel so they built a brick...