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Hi all, All opinions welcome on this. I'm renovating a house which has had to have a number of windows replaced. Now, the issue is that the internal reveals are approx 2" to 2.5" wider all around than those outside, and as such, required making up somehow. What I have done is built a solid...

I can't believe you've been quoted £1k just to replaster "this" room. That sounds well over the odds to me, even if the guy was doing every bit of prep work including removing the old stuff and skipping it away. I'd get several other quotes, and preferably from someone who has been...

Good posting here. This guy has had more than enough chance to talk about this problem at the very minimum, but he will not take a call. Strangely enough though, when my daughter calls him from her phone (voicemail again....surprise surprise), he texts back straight away and asks who it is...

Thanks for the replies guys, much appreciated. The scratch coat looked ok to me (though I've got limited experience and knowledge with this) although it did appear to be a bit soft, and nowhere near as hard as I thought it should be. I was of the opinion myself that the top coat had dried way...

Hi all, Well, it's been a while since I last posted anything about this job. The images below are of a part of this stuff that has been applied to the walls as I've mentioned earleir in this thread, and shows just how shocking it is. This is a patch I have removed, in order to see how...

Not taken any off no, because we are waiting on the guy sending someone around to look at it. To me, it doesn't appear that the two coats are properly bonded together, though i might be wrong and it could be the scratch which has not taken to the brickwork below in some areas. I am a...

To answer your points raised above.... SBR was brushed on - only once - left for no more than 20 minutes before scratch coat was started to be applied. Yes, it was mixed with cement. I have looked at this work again after about a week or so and the blown areas are definitely more...

From what I recall, it was mixed with cement and maybe a little sand, brushed on, and the scratch coat was applied pretty much within half and hour of that being done. Don't know whether this is correct or bad practise. The overall job looks ok, but to me, new render should not feel or sound...

Hi all, Opinions on this one.? My daughter has been having part of her old victorian house re-rendered. Looking at it yesterday I notice it has the odd patch which has blown, as it can clearly be heard when its given a tap with the knuckles. Now this is new work done only within the last...

Hi Anna, Email the images to yourself and they will be automatically compressed in doing so, making the file size smaller. You should be able to add them to a folder on this site and upload easily enough then. If you right click the pictures now and look at their properties, and then do...

As Roy-C says, the bricks are on the outer skin only and yes it does have a wooden lintel on the inner skin, but it is still very solid and is not rotten at all. I'm not entirely convinced what "fensa" actually does anyway, as some of the fitting I've seen done by so called registered company...

Well in fact it was me that fitted the windows, and one of the upstairs windows (the one right above this one in fact) had the same issue, and I changed the bricks for a concrete lintel. As it had no load to bare, I thought a 3" X 4" would do nicely, so removed a few of the bricks and slapped...

Ta again for the reply, really appreciate it. Will get piccies tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see what others say about it.

Thanks for the reply JR. The scratch was done yesterday, so I checked it today around 5pm to see how it was looking. It has mainly gone off ok, but there is a patch which stil looks a bit moist, but that may be from earlier today, as it was raining this morning here. The areas I checked were...