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One of the best ways to hear loose plaster, tiles, even wallpaper, etc, is, to run the back of your hands/finger nails across the wall, far more effective than tapping/knocking on the walls.

Well said, it's troublemaking idiots like Ellie that are the cause of much of this hatred.

Spot on. If you do it, and something goes wrong, you can't blame the plasterer.

Well done Rob, it'll never go wrong.

I always mesh tape everything with a joint in it, I even run mesh tap down the edges of corner beads. You wont need much tape, so ask a friend, painter and decorator, plasterer, anyone who might have some.

Well said Lower, that will definitely happen, I've seen that many times.

Using a steam stripper on weak crumbly plastered walls will cause a lot of damage.

Not a problem at all, it's ok. It's when you leave them in a damp/wet area for a while, that causes problems. Also, the bags have an internal polythene layer nowadays, so that helps it too.

Not a problem at all, as long as there are no sockets of pipes behind the wall. Screw the plasterboard to the wood panelling, tape the joints, if any, then skim, no problem.

Whatever you do, make sure the crack is taped, otherwise it'll come right back.

As Alastair said, there's definitely a damp problem there.

She and the corrupt snp need kicking out, horrible anti English, racist, bunch of morons.

You can go on the internet, and print off some Gyproc 100mm, coving templates. I do that all the time for whatever I need.

Just cut the existing piece back using a left hand, LH, external mitre template, to mark where to cut, then cut another small separate piece of coving, using a RH external mitre template. Join/fix the 2 together on the ceiling, then you'll end up with a neat, external mitre. Be careful when you...

Millions would agree with you there Mottie, but Notchie7,, :LOL::LOL:,, no chance.

Junk the drunk, now von der "Lieyen". :LOL::LOL::LOL:

Usual offensive language from Noseall, I thought the Mod's said this should stop!!!!

Exactly Benny. There's people out there who think that if they do all the prep for the incoming plasterer, "we'll put the tapes on for you", "we'll do this, we'll do that", thinking the bill will be smaller, doesn't always work out that way.

I would not even think of doing it for that price. 2 weeks ago, I did a job for a couple who had an archway removed from their lobby, so that meant a ceiling repair, and 2, full height wall repairs. I charged them £380, including materials. The walls throughout the house are plasterboard lath...

:LOL::LOL::LOL:,,, Snotchy,, cheer up, :LOL::LOL: