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Scud it scratch it render it ...you wont have any bother.

Are you going for a model with a backboiler ?

All three are good makes and models, I have an Esse free standing stove and cant fault it

And I rang technical support at Quinns who advised that lime should always be used in conjunction with their products in conjunction with their code of good working practice, so I will continue to adhere to my time honoured methods, and we shall all die happy.

Those are the type of buckets you need, and also try and pick up a cheap square edged bucket trowell, an ordinary gaugeing trowell is next to useless. The bucket trowell will get virtually everything from the bucket so if you throw in a few inches of water to clean it out and empty the big...

Use only the tall plastering buckets specifically made to hold one bag of plaster, when mixed and emptied onto the spot throw in six inches of clean water and give a qick clean with a brush from a dustpan set. Pour the residue into another tall bucket half filled,or old 5 gallon paint tub, fill...

Firstly are you absolutely sure that there is only a single leaf of brickwork here? If it is on to the main house and not say a porch or draught lobby I would be very surprised. Can you determine what type of brick it is? If it is solid then some type of chemical injection would be possible...

I think JR IS a joke to legs akimbo. Alan I will answer your questions and set the record straight for those who realy should know (more) and better when I have a moment.

White rino lime. Walk onto any site in Ireland (when there were sites) and in the stores were pallets of White Rhino Lime, Quinns cement and 5 gallon tubs of waterproofer. http://www.irishlime.ie/construction.html

I have comleted tens of thousands of mtr's of rendering and always but always used lime in the mix with or without waterproofer. I have undertaken jobs where specifics of the schedule have specifically started the ratios of mix aslways with lime. I have been on huge jobs where samples have...

Dont you mean Aldi, Netto, Cost cutters, shoplifters down the pub etc etc

The white render is indeed white sand cement and Hydrated lime stone chips...all available at your local Chadwicks or Heatons. As for plastering the walls in a white render then dont, You would imagine this to be the answer to never having to paint again but with our climate the walls will be...

Stand corrected...your an idiot, absolutely and categorically without question there is no problem adding lime (hydrated) to a render mix indeed it is to be advised, indeed recomended. b.j. plastering you dont even know what type of wall (brick) this is !!

Most of the settled ****** on this forum live in council tennament blocks on about the 18th floor and they would only venture outdoors to pick up giant bags of chips to feed their offspring or to pick up their welfare cheques. Days spent watching Dr Phil and growing cannabis would be infinitely...

I am jogaby in fact am just off out to pick up a couple of chickens this afternoon and the coop is a bit battered so want to build a new one, What do you have for me ?

Spose it would be Ok if you live in the Atacama desert, but from Gateshead to Exeter I would imagine not...emphatically.

A wire brush ...theese are BRICK walls not the heat shield surface of a NASA space shuttle.

Herr Oberfuher Moderator...That was not a weird post, that was an extremely clever play on words cherry picking some of the very best releases from the early 70's imortal "Trojan" record label. At least one man was cool enough to get it, Mr Mod do you own a copy of Catcher in the rye and an...

For the walls not yourself, that would not help.

Effloresence (Spelling?) In short salt in the bricks leeching out, quite normal not a lot you can do other than soapy water,