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I was always under the impression that rendering a brick wall was good as it protected the brick from the weather. I've saw a couple things now that are making me think. Some things I have seen are saying rendering over brickwork is bad for is as it stops the brick breathing and will result in...

I'm wanting to paint the stone around my windows. I've found a nice colour i like but dulux dont do a weathershield version of it. i've already painted everything with white weathershield so can I just paint gloss over the top, or will i be able to get the paint mixed somewhere?

I've been reading through the many posts on the forum to try and figure out how to finish around the fireplace. What I am doing is re-pointing the original chimney brickwork in the recess and plastering the wall around the chimney. I've read Gypsum plaster is not as option, and VITCAS has been...

i'll be rendering over the top so i'm not too bothered about the look

I've removed the render on my house wall as it was frost damaged. I found some of the red bricks underneath were quite badly damaged also, up to half the brick crumbled away. The construction of my wall is a solid wall scottish bond with 9 inch bricks. I cant find a size match anywhere ( i need...

I've stripped the render off one of the walls of my house and found some of the red bricks quite damaged and crumbly. I'm planning to remove the worst ones and put new one in as I don't want to out new render on a surface that's not sound. The bricks my house is built with measure 9" L 4 1/4'...

I'm in the process of removing the roughcast render from the west wall of my house. I've found in places the bricks are pretty crumbly, I would think due to water getting in. for some bricks 10-20mm is coming off. What should I do, just take off the loose brick and then fill it up when I put on...

I'm trying to find screws/nails to fix 12.5mm plasterboard + 50mm PUR insulation to my timber studs. With a total thickness of 62.5mm I'm struggling to find a nail/screw to do the job. All I can find are 75mm, which i think are too small, and 100mm which are too long!

I've been getting in quotes for insulation and what I've found is that the insulation bonded to plasterboard is a heck of a lot more expensive than the component materials, +£15 per sheet. What I'm thinking is to buy the 50mm and plasterboard separate, glue (or nail, not sure what would be...

Its strips of wood you're seeing there, dont know if they go all the way through, why would these be used? As for the wall construction I've not heard of that type, have you any info about it?

Started to take of the plasterboard in the livingroom, see pics below. Do you think the wall condition will be good enough for a dot dab insulation/plasterboard? Also, somthing I'm concerned about it the cavity is probably about 1inch, so not very big, and there seems every 4 rows the bricks are...

I was thinking, what if I use dot and dab to put the insulation/platerboard combo on but leave say 200mm at the bottom where I will put in studs with 50mm insulation to allow me to put wiring through, how does this sound?

with the ceoltex there would still be a gap (13mm) between the plasterboard and insulation for services.

yeah I have considered that, only thing I i put these up then I'm assuming you wont get any plugs/arial/network sockets in the wall, and no cables in it which is somthing I would have think about

thanks for that. I've been looking at the 50mm kingspan and increasing the gap between the plasterboard and wall with 63mm stud timber. Somthing I'm a bit confused about is plasterboard standard size is 1.2m x 2.4m, and stub spacing should be 600mm. or 400mm. So why does kingspan come in 450mm...

I've just had my cavity wall surveyed with the veiw to get it insulated. Unfortunately my cavity is too small, 30mm, so the company wont do it. I'm thinking now to put insulation between the wall and the internal plasterboad. The gap is only 1inch would this be fine? I'm not keen on making it bigger

this is a pic of my wall. I've stripped the paper off to find chipped gloss paint underneath. what's the best way to deal with this if I want to paint the walls? cheers