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I have renewed alot of skirting in my front room and have found that there are alot of gaps that need filling along the top of the skirting. Now so far I have used decoraters caulk but after couple of weeks the caulk seems to crack slighty along the joins. Same as filler and wood filler that...

Thank you for your reply. I can't get to the outside walls easily at the moment so I can't see if there are any cracks. If there is then they must be small as I can't see them hanging out of the window in the bedrooms. As for getting worse, I am not sure. I have lived in the property for...

Hello. I have noticed some cracks in my house and would like some advice please. I live in a small semi detached house that was built around 1970. Upstairs in 2 bedrooms There are are almost identical cracks that start from the ceiling in the outside corners and go down about 6-8 inches. They...

Hello, I live in a semi detached house. Each 2 houses in my row is about a foot lower than the next 2 so they go down in a kind of step down my street. Inbetween my house and the next house is a metre wide alley and I live lower than the next house. The ground in the alley is basicly set to...

Is that why plumbers charge so god damn much ? :)

Hello. I have had new radiator pipes fitted in my living room. I am not planning on boxing these in whatsoever. I would prefer to paint them with exactly the same emulsion that I am putting onto the walls. What should I paint onto the pipes fisrt so that the emulsion will stick ok? The...

Many thanks you have been a great help. The rich matt is abit hard to paint on as it seems very sticky. I will try to water down a little bit tomorrow and try again. The humid temperatures probably didnt help this. I will stick to the rich matt i think mainly because of the cost of having to...

Really? The jewsons trade paint seems quite thin. I only done this on my builders instructions and also the seller insists it can be painted straight onto new plaster with no watering down at all (1st coat included). I really hope this wasent a bad move Also I don't think it looks duff at...

Hello, I have recently had plasterboard put up on the ceiling and then had it skimmed over. This was done about 4-6 weeks ago. I have painted 2 coats over it so far. The 1st coat was a 70% mist coat of Jewsons trade matt emulsion. The 2nd coat was a full 100% of the same paint. Now I want...

The thing is I don't really want to box the pipes in as pipes don't bother me that much. All I want to do is just cover that hole where the pipes enter the wall. Is expanding foam resistant to the hot and cold temperatures? My original plan was to use the foam to fill the gap and then skim...

Hello, I have 2 heating pipes that go from my rad into the wall. I want to fill and make neat the whole around it but I dont know what I should use? With the pipes getting hot and cold, what can I use that wont crack or come away? or are there even any kind of covers you can buy? Heres a...

Patches as in parts where you can see the plaster underneath still? If so I also have this but I have only painted a mist coat over and cant see why 7 coats would not cover it? Anyway hope someone more experienced can help

Thanks for confirming that ;) Yeah I am probably going over the top. Just dont want to be redoing it in 3 months time :)

Hi again. Sorry to keep banging on about this. Right as I said before I have removed all bubbles and fillered them. The couple of parts of the wall where the plaster had lifted I scraped out and patched them up with plaster. All looks really good so far and I am chuffed with my patchup...

I am using polyfiller on plastered walls. The reason I need to filler is that there was some sort of lining papers left in places when it was plastered so a few bits bubbled up

Hello I am after some advice. Unfortunatly I have had to use some filler on my walls. I just want to know about sanding down the filler and how smooth does it need to be? I know this probably sounds silly but I have sanded and sanded and the filler is smooth and even but when I run my fingers...

OK I had the plasterer back today. The parts that bubbled up were my fault. When we scraped these bits away there was some kind of paper behind them. Now I stripped the wallpaper but I guess I must have left some backing/lining paper there. Lesson learnt there :shock: The bits that...

I dont know yet as It has only slightly lifted and not broken away. Alot of places you cannot see just hear is you tap you fingers about the wall

Well it was wallpapper which I removed. Then I pva'd twice on what I am guessing was paint. It also looked like this has happened to the previous plasterer whenever that was. Funny thing is he done 1 more wall today which I pva'd about 30 minutes before he plastered it and theres some lift...

Looking at it today most of it looks fine. All but one patch you cant see any problems but it just sounds like some air is behind it. He came round today to finish one last bit and he said it would be fine once I painted over these bits. If the plaster came off while I painted it I would...