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stevethespreader said. That wasn't a question Steve, that was a statement and an insulting statement at that in my opinion. Either way, can we put this behind us and move on to helping people as best we can?

I just tried to help some one, which i think is far better than being a motor mouth who just looks for every chance to be nasty.

I am like you, i like to see well pointed brick work, and to me the metal stop bead would detract from the rustic looking effect of the brickwork. The way i would go with it is, cut a a wooden straight edge to the length of the corner of the area, by knocking nails in to the bed joints of the...

If you have any more questions later on, just post back here, i will be only too pleased to try and help. Good luck.

you could drill, plug and screw the boards on to the brick work, but you would not get a straight and flat wall. Tiling requires straight, flat walls to look anything like decent, if you've done tiling before, you should know how critical straight walls are. It would very annoying for you if...

If steam was doing the job right in the first place, then continue using steam. you can buy small...ish steamers, Aldi have some in stock right now at £15 or £17 i cant cant quite remember. All you will need then is a couple of plasterers small tools to get in to those finicky little places.

In which case you should make sure that you put a good strong scrim cloth where the boards meet the brick work. Half on the board and half on the brick work to stop it cracking later on. A good quality strong hessian scrim cloth is what we used to use, but beware, i have seen some cheap and...

The way i would tackle it is to tack the beads on with galvanised nails, but you need to get the thin nails with the small heads. You have to to do a few test taps with hammer and nails first to find out where the bed joints are in the brickwork and then tap through the bead straight in to the...

If you want a stipple finish, you wont get it in render, if you just want it rough, then a brush will achieve that, but a stipple i honestly don't believe that you can get with sand and cement render. When you said stipple. i took it to mean like an artex stipple, where you just push your...

Do you think that the stop bead might ruin the effect?

Hi project1, its a long time since i used coloured render, but if i my memory serves me right, there was no difference in rendering coloured or not coloured. All you have to do is read the instructions on the pack. I have never used plastic bead, i have only used stainless steel ones with...

Hi antisoma, Those ceiling cracks look as though some one stood on the boards from up in the loft, if that is the case, then you should try to screw the damaged plaster board back to the joists, with non rusting screws, then cut in to the cracks lightly with a craft knife to rake out any loose...

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