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Hello. Im in need of a little advice. Its possible im over thinking things but im asking around to put my mind at rest. Im installing a marble floor in my wetroom/ bathroom upstairs Its a 1930 house. My floor seems soild to walk on. The joists are in good condition between 7x2 7x2.5...

Ive got another couple of walls to go at first for a bit more practice then ill let myself at it. Im also having plaster coving which helps a bit. When I said my wall came out "decent" I mean it will need a bit of a rub down and a few spots of filler here and there but its not a total cock up...

Are the ceiling much harder to get a finish on then? Its only 7m2

I plastered my first wall today and it went really well. I got a finish that I think is fairly decent. My original plan was to get a plaster to skim my ceilings (plastered boarded and taped) and id do the walls. Today went better than expected so now im thinking about giving the ceiling ago...

Thanks for all the advise. Ive skimmed over it all with muilty finish. Im planning todo all the walls in my house so it was a nice bit of practice. Against all odds its endded up looking fairly decent. Im a floor layer so do a lot of work with different skims, feather finishes ect and it...

Sound thanks for the help. Can i use the bonding over the top of the old plaster aswell? The walls are all over the place so im probaly going to go over 3 times. Twice on the deep bits that have popped off the wall to get it like it was before and then some patches of build up 5-10mm thick to...

Im tiling 2 of my walls in my bathroom. Its a 1930 house. Original sand lime and cement plaster (i think) or just sand / cement. Ive got to level out one of my walls as its all over the place. Ive knocked off any loose plaster 10-20mm thick and PVAed all of it twice. What should I use to...

Im tiling 2 of my walls in my bathroom. Its a 1930 house. Original sand lime and cement plaster (i think) or just sand / cement. Ive got to level out one of my walls as its all over the place. Ive knocked off any loose plaster 10-20mm thick and PVAed all of it twice. What should I use to...

the chimney area is recessed so i need to build it out with a piece of plasterboard. there will with 2 layers of dabs and 2 layers plasterboard for it to go though and then the wall it to be tiled anyway. Plus the soot area is only like 12 inch's wide so if need be ill generally try and avoid...

Will dot and dab adhesive stick to soot on brickwork and how would I prep the wall. Its where a chimney breast has been removed. Ive removed all I can with a wire brush and scrapper but the bricks are still stained black

Ok thanks for the help. Yep it will be tiled and tbf there will be ventilation behind it anyway (wont be sealed against the wall as the wall drops back)

Im building a stud wall in my bathroom. Its going to be one of the walls which makes up my wet room so will be tanked and waterproofed before been tiled. I was going to plaster the wall but ive got to ride over some prity ruff brickwork where a chimney once was which also drops back 4" and...

I feel your pain with your SE. I went though the same BS. Giving me dimensions for pad stones which wouldn't even fit. 215 wide padstone to go ontop of a single 100 wide brick wall and couldn't understand why I couldn't use it. Complete idiot

Ive got this problem. I thought i was just going to have to re cap the chimney. The chimney has been re pointed and ive just had a new roof so the flashing is good. The only place I could think it was coming in was down the inside of the chimeny its self and then socking though the...

Ive got to plaster board my whole house. I quoted up using the kingspan backed plasterboard at first. Only on the external walls. I worked out that it would only pay for its self after 5 years plus so decided i wouldn't bother. Ive notested afew other brands about now (can't see the...

In shop fits they tap and join plasterboards. Basicly they just filler the joints of the boards and then paint the lot. Or you can wall paper ontop of it. Ive hurd they also do a primer so you can remove the wall paper at a later date without destroying the paperboard but im not sure how...

im very interested in this. Upstairs in my house i sistered all the ceiling joists but that was because they where also sagging. Downstairs there big joists so Id like to to find a easyer way around it. As you say I dont know what how far you have to go with tolerances ect

Sweet. Cheers lads. Ill be doing the rewire as well so that shouldn't cause any problems. Ill run it around the room next to the walls so I know where they are for future reference

Ive currenty got the ceiling down in my kitchen directly below my bathroom. Im compleatly refiting my bathroom. To get around the fact i cant notch the flooring joints excessily for my waste pipe for the shower i want to run it below the flooring joists and then lower the ceiling with battens...

Hello. We are both keeping the stack in the front room which share the same chimeny coming out of the roof it that makes sence. Probaly would have been easyer to remove the lot though