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Hi all plastering noob in need of help. We have a re skim job to do at home. we have a cavity wall that had been clad with boards all around as there was a door and caseing originally there. This was removed and just wrapped with board beaded and skimmed. Now we need to rekim. i see we need to...

As some areas patched are around 2ft square, would it be easier to fill in with multi to the original ceiling level, then blue grit all over and 2 coat skim. Sorry noob plasterer.

Has been skimmed with board finish

We have cut holes on the ceiling to access pipes and electrical wires. We have filled with new plaster board, with a view to over skimming the whole ceiling. What is the best approach just over skim in 2 coats or skim over the plasterboard patches to thicken out as they are 3-5mm shy of the...

Afternoon All wanted advice on the plaster B&Q are stocking, Make good. I have a suspicion what the responses will be but want to be sure. With the plaster shortage we had to use B&Q make good plaster. Just to note i am not a plaster, more a enthusiastic DIY person. We painted the walls with...

Will do thankyou

We have lifted up the flooring under our stairs, via 150mm ecotherme covered with 22mm caber deck. We will be using as a washroom with a washing machine sat on top. What would be the best flooring where there may be moister or water if we every get a leak. Had tiles with flexible adhesive on...

Afternoon all, we are trying to work out how many down lights we need for our new extension. We have looked at various websites but get conflicting information. The room is approximately 11ft X 15ft with a height of 7ft, the room has a steel across the center to support the joists. We have...

we had our meter moved several years ago into our garage. we are now converting our garage to a living space. This meas moving our boiler. I have been in the industry some years and competant in what i do, however gas is another ball game. I would like to install the pipework myself, getting the...

We have adjusted the door, but there is a small gap on the top left, how do you alter hinges to pull it tighter to the frame if possible?

We had painted our walls with valspar sheen paint and looking to re paint. There are a couple of areas that if you want can pick at the paint edge and peel chunks off. There are areas about 12icnhs where this has happened. However if we sand back the edge it still showing through the paint...

We are having to move some pipework in our house. Is it acceptable to link radiators together form there tails or do you hve to run each pair form the radiator to the 22mm main flow/return hope this makes sense.

We have a garage that has been dot and dabbed. It has had rather a lot of board adhesive behind to get over the walls, some areas 1 - 1.5 inch. Along the wall the end board is out of line by around 5-8mm. Whats the best approach to get an acceptable finish, can this be filled out? Any help...

Help please, we are at the point of ordering a new composite door and frame. The old door was poorly fitted and unsightly, not to mention never fitted correctly. Our issue is the opening is just over 1 inch out of plumb on one side and approx 10mm on the other. To compensate for this they had...

Already in, probably the last few bits of crap for the builder's merchants. Will post on the DIY disasters next week.

Thanks for the help, well had a go at putting them in today. What a b*******d to do. Some of the PIR boards were 2 inchs out, like a banana. They have been in and out that many times trying to get them right. Been impossible. Done our best, taped the joints and filled the gaps. Started to put...

Trying to lay some pir floor insulation over a garage floor then caberdeck. Is there an easy way to do this? The insulation seems to be bent, so laid sand down to compensate but proving a lot harder than we thought. the panels still seem to move when stood on (flexing). Will the weight of the...

we are converting our garage and will need to replace the door and lining (the original door + lining never fitted) however it appears the off the shelf linings are not wide enough. On the assumption of 100mm thermalite, 12mm boards, dabs 10-20mm walls a little out and 3mm skim, making the wide...

Decided to go with, DPM, sand and bed the insulation into that, par and fill and joints then caberdeck over. Thats this weekends job sorted.

So reading through it appears we have a couple of choices, these would be on the basis of easiest to achieve, cheapest and material availability as we need it done sooner than later. What does everyone think of the options and are they doable? Bearing in mind the exsisitng makeup of the floor...