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This huge object is serving no purpose anymore.

Expected to find pipes here, instead found bricks...

Photos showing an old water tank with very dodgy properties

Hardwall, covered with some glue residue which is very firm and probably doesn't need removing. It's ruined because it's not even, level, has some hardwall bits which need patching before the skim and it's just hardwall bonding covered with glue residue...

Now I have a proper camera to get proper advice, here is the crack in question.

Photos to go with misc questions

I read about this gap but the original bonding had no gap and it isn't on the ground floor. Does it need one?

I had to knock off all the bonding behind the skirting to lift some boards. This means I've got to put it back on again. Being as it's not going to be visible and I have a sander with hoover attachment it seems like a good job for a newbie. I read that I should use a 5:1 water:pva mix and if it...

I want to try tea made like http://ladysweetsugar.multiply.com/journal/item/42. Don't think you need all that fancy kit just a stew pot, a hob, a tea pot and a cup and should be able to do the whole thing English style. Back to plastering, I was busier than I thought and still didn't get...

That's the important bit, they say time is money - I have more time than money.

The name is a joke I'm a pedantic 1mm out drives me crazy kinda guy, also because my jobs will probably not be as good as a trades BUT You missed the point. This whole project started cause a chancer plasterer bodged it and blew my budget. I'm doing it, Photo's will be forthcoming. I got a...

OK guys is it as good to practice skimming on just a board or better on a frame fixed to a wall? I'm thinking the latter right? Well, I have quite a lot of timber suitable for making a frame and plasterboard is cheap as hell, so I can bolt a frame to a wall in a room to get my practice on...

Yeah thanks guys I'm definitely going to go for it. The house is basically an empty shell, there's lots I need to do to it. There's a couple of jobs I need to finish up which will take me into the middle of next week and I'll give the bits I got laying around some practice skimming during any...

The only reason I am DIY this plaster is because we had a "plasterer" in and he bodged it. The weekend plastering course seems very basic and looks like it teach you the same thing in the dvd called "Mastering Plastering". You recommend I practice skimming on some drywall. Should I build a...

It's not the saw I'm talking about it's the "Spyder scraper" you put in it instead of a cutting blade?

they're big, hard and you wouldn't want to meet one down a dark alley at night (trust me, I've met part of one). anyhow, when i lift out floorboards and what not the nails they were nailed in with leave holes. can i put some strengthening filler in there, even though it's a complete waste of...

I know it's really pedantic but when i cut floorboards i like to do it dead centre of the joist so the load is as perfectly distributed as it can be. I don't have the metal plunge cutter but the nails that are sometimes in the centre line are annoying the hell out of me, just to be sure, it...

It's called "Spyder scraper" and you can get them on eBay. It is basically a bigger version of the GOP scraper. Of course it can't do all the other things the GOP can do so it hardly makes the GOP obsolete.

I saw a video of this on youtube once, because I have a lot of crap to clean off this wall. I think he called it an "alligator" (which doesn't help cuz it's also the brand name of a dewalt saw). Anyways, I've got the DIY cabled version of the GOP with rigid blade which will do the job but this...