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wellcome to our world and our ongoing fight with water based glosses :evil: Your doing nothing wrong its just a pig to apply and IMO not as good as the oil based. They aint cracked it yet. :roll: Try adding flowetrol to it that works and try not to overbrush. good luck :wink:

no question is stupid if you dont know the answer :wink: What you say is correct a normal room would have 4 internals and the chimney breast that protrudes into a room would have 2 externals. If that is the case in your room you would have 2 more internals cos of the chimney breast 8) clear...

Q1 hard to say without seeing it. Personaly I always line when papering. It does give a sound base and looks better for it. Q2 In a word no. Used to be the case when lining paper and wallpaper were the same size. They arn't anymore. The main reason was so the seams did not fall on top of each...

read the tin, some recommend it some dont. Personally I never thin it down :wink:

And so you should be :shock: the whole house will now fall down around your ears :lol: Try washing it off with warm water. Should work. Not the end of the world though. Mist coat all the walls with a contract emulsion watered down about 25% when thouroughly dry paint as normal. :wink:

De-nib......when you run your hand over the varnished item you will feel some rough spots. They will be bits of dust hairs etc etc that have settled on the surface. Wire wool .....much less abrasive than sandpaper and will not leave embedded grit in the varnish. Tack cloth.....no amount of...

Hi, do you want to retain the natural colour of the door=clear varnish or give them a colour= stained varnish? Sikkens is my varnish of choice 8) but sadolin do a nice few, could even try yacht varnish heard that works well. I would do them hung otherwise you will knock and scratch your...

thats the only time I used it and it was Designers Guild paper and they spec the pva so on their heads it was :twisted: gotta say though we had no probs with it at all. Deffo gonna find out who makes it this time round and how it works these days promise :wink: :roll:

Agree about that wickes one Zamps if its the same stuff that I am thinking of then it was good. The PVA one that I am on about mate was the stuff that came from the Designers Guild. It was a sachet that was added to their own paste. It was not ready mixed and I believe that ready mixed and the...

well it does exist my friend 8) ready mixed is not the same stuff but there are many to choose from. It is my paste of choice cos I goota paste master and its a treat in that :wink: I use the albany one from Brewers in the main but every now and again BnQ have a purge on theirs and it goes for...

Hi Zamps, sure thats come up before somewhere mate, dont quote me cos i am not to sure but I think that it has something else in there apart from PVA, dont hold me to it though I could be wrong :wink:

Designers Guild do a PVA based one, PVA comes in a little sachet that you add to the paste. Mates doing one at the moment where it was specked and sure he said he got some from Leylands. Haven't done it for years so can't be of more help. :wink:

! was gonna say that pete and add that after the sparks, chippys and plasterers have been in its usual for us to put every thing right again...."leave it for the painter, he'll do it." Was gonna say it but won't cos its been the week from hell and I aint got the fight in me :roll: :wink:

:shock: i had to read it twice :shock: one of the rare times when we would ask you not to post pictures of the completed job :lol: :lol: :wink:

couldn't work out what you were saying at first but just got it :oops: trim the paper an inch or so over the reveal. then run a sharp knife down the paper keeping it flat to the reveal corner. You can finish this off with a "L" shaped profile availiable at the sheds. This you can get in...

Feel like starting it up again 8) filling gaps in lining paper??? I agree total waste of time do it properly and no need to fill the seams :lol: :lol: :lol: :twisted:

no no and no again do not put PVA/Unibond on your walls. Do not put it anywhere near your walls. Throw it in the bin. Its not what it was made for and WILL cause you probs down the road. Esp when you come to paint over it. Bare plaster and patches and new plaster should be mist coated with a...

all three will work and are ideal for that area, endurance is the retail (diy) version of diamond so will be easier to apply and cheaper. clean and extreme seems pretty good for the price but only started trialing that recently so can't give a definative answer either way only to say not had any...

should have been prep prior to the paper going up but sometimes you miss the obvious :oops: looking down the wall hes seen an imperfection and put it right. Like the seam filling that some do, it will be fine once its all painted. If there is any doubt in your mind bring it up with the deccy.

unusal to have a house thats only dry lined are you sure there is not a thin skim coat on them boards :?: If its a vinyl then peel it off. The backing paper can be soaked it warm water. It will fall away a treat providing its wet enough. Normal paper can be scored or not depending on the...