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It's a terraced house - so there is no point insulating the ground floor ceiling as the heat will rise into the first floor. I will just need some quality insulation in the loft. In the stud walls that have all been exposed can I just use loft insulation?

The initial plan was to remove the old plaster (1910 stone built home) where it was loose and either overboard or drop the ceilings where required. It was old lathe and plaster. Well in the end I had all the old plaster removed from all walls - in and around the door frames some of the bricks...

Need about 6m2 of tile backer board around the standing bath shower. I looked online and wickes stock STS panels - can I use dot and dab to secure these do the exposed brick walls or is it only with mechanical fixings? After the backerboards have been secured to the wall - I need a specialist...

Its a fairly small bathroom - 2.5m x 2m with an outside window. Will be having a straight bath, WC and toilet fitted. Will be having an external thermostatic shower mixer tap - not running behind the plaster in the wall. So what type of plasterboard / tile backing should I use for the bath...

Thanks Bennymulti for your advice.

Just working out how thick plaster finish needs to be - should 3mm do it or should I go thicker - will be onto plasterboard. Also in bathroom - what type of plasterboard should I go for - I need tile backing board -but so many options - I want to go for best water tight finish. Will be tiled...

You mean something like this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/ph2-drywall-screwdriver-bits-ph2-2-pack/6623v

Thanks Benny. Will be overboarding over the downstairs ceilings - its old lathe plaster ceilings. So no harm in going for 75mm or 65mm? One more point the upstairs ceilings have all been dropped so the joists are exposed - so what size screw for plasterboard directly onto the joists? 38mm?

Ceilings and walls will have plasterboard put down and then skimmed over with multifinish. So do I go for square edge for walls and ceilings or go for tapered edge. With square or tapered - do all joins and corners need to be taped with scrim tape? The whole house is getting boarded and...

Spray it on and leave it for a day and then crack on with the dotting and dabbing.

I need to plaster the whole house including the ceilings All walls are 2.7m high downstairs Room1: 4.1m x 3.7 = 15.17 m2 / 42.12 walls Room2: 4.1 x 4.3 = 17.63 / 45.36 Hallway: 4.9x 1.1 = 5.39 / 32.4 Back hallway: 1.4 x 1.6 = 2.24 / 16.2 Landing: 4 x 1.1 = 4.4 / 28.08 Bedroom 1 = 3.3x 3 = 9.9...

The walls are a bit dusty so PVA them 5:1 and the next day dot and dab. Or can you go around the whole house and PVA at once? then dot and dab. If the walls are 2.7m high - should we get 2.7m x 1.2m 12.5mm plasterboard or better to use 2.4m? I take it as its being plastered over to get square...

The walls are internal brick leaf - a bit dusty after all the black old plaster was removed. What is the best prep before they are dotted and dabbed? The walls are pretty much like that. A bit dusty with some loose mortar in some places. To dot and dab on that - should you use 5:1 PVA or...

Woody you are a credit to this forum. (y)

Thanks Woody. Really appreciate your help. (y) So they lay the lintel in place. Put the mortar mix ontop of the lintel and then raise it up and compress the mortar mix so its no more than 10-15mm. Then place slate wedges and drypack where the lintel will rest. Or The lay the lintel on a bed...

Thanks. Well my dad was saying leave the old stuff in - he is a lover of old Edwardian and Victorian homes. They don't make them like they used to- but this house was caked in gharish gloss and all the doors were a bit wonky - but there was no structural issues. I was just trying to modernise...

This is the job of the builder but I want to make sure he hasn't missed anything. Its the first time I have had any building work done in any property I have lived in. The wall is a single leaf internal brick wall supporting the floor and wall above. I believe the wall above also supports the...

I am more confused than ever now - primed MDF or soft wood skirting and architrave?

I just had a look at some bifolds from B&Q and it seems they come with a rail which the door slides in - so I wouldn't be able to use them to lie flat against the wall.

So how did you hinge them?