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thanx for reply :) what should i do with electric cables that I want to bury behind dot and dabbed plasterboard? Wall is brick between 2 rooms. The plug socket is currently at about waist height with plastic casing onto of the plaster. Are plug sockets best left at waist height or should I...

Please could someone give me some more input and advice on this? thank you :)

I gave it a good scrub with wire brush. Unfortunately I'd already painted it before I saw the advice about the derusting chemical dip. Can't just get a new wall bracket as this one has sentimental value - made by my black-smith great uncle who died a few years back. thanx everyone for the...

thanx people :) I've sorted it best I can and repainted it. Looks ok :) Hanging basket will soon be off the floor when I get around to putting the thing up :)

hi I'm currently plasterboarding and replastering a room. From reading forum posts I've figured out I have to use 12.5mm plasterboard, with screws not nails, on the ceiling. But what is recommended for the walls? Any other hints and tips? thank you :)

oops. I spilled paint stripper in mine a few years ago and made it go all bubbly and rough. :oops: Good job my family all prefer showers! :D

hi I have a rusty old, once painted, wall bracket for a hanging basket. So far I've tried to attack it with a flat-bladed screwdriver to knock off all the muck, old paint and rust. Anyone know how I should make the surface suitable for painting? What sort of paint would be best for it...

Roughly 1420mm across (includes the plaster as well). New plaster patching old fireplace up is not in centre - I'm assuming the flu for the now removed fireplace on the ground floor runs behind this old plaster to the side of where this fireplace was? I'd want to open the fireplace so that its...

I'm currently stripping down a room, getting rid of all the old lathe and plaster and replastering it with plasterboard and a layer of plaster. Room is smallish bedroom on 1st floor in 3 storey terrace roughly 120 years old (top rooms go up into roof). I'm considering opening up the old...