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no dramas its what im here for anymore questions you know where we are

haha wassnt too sure it looked like either a really zoomed in pic or not and the plaster was mega thick. im not sure if that is browning mate could be a lime coat, scratch it a bit and see if thiers hairs and small stones in the coat

to be fair if he had priced in for all the problems that "could" happen then he would never have got the job weve had it before where as we took the render off the brickwork cam off aswell and the whole wall had to be rebuilt, now i could never have known this would have happened, the tradesman...

proberly minor movement from when they did the work below itll be fine mate itll just be the house settling onto the new lintel after a large chuck of it was removed

rounding is easier mate i know it sounds daunting but honestly once you have got the wrist action and pressure on the trowel right you will fly through it, trust me im a ..............doctor?? ( im not) you can learn how to curve them by bonding the curve out first this will give you the basic...

i dnt see a problem with mixing boards make sure you use the drywall sealer beofre you paint it mate, i like that you used the shadow gap beads round the out side did you get the idea off of here and was it one of my posts haha, i tend to be the only person saying about them, its only because we...

if he only did the scratch today mate itt still be fairly green mate and wnt have cured to its maxumim strenght, what colour is it i mean does it look really sandy yellow colour or is it a nice deep green colour?? just out of interest and dnt take this the wrong way how would you have reacted...

its not really adviseable mate but if needs be and all that i fully understand ive never done this before (over prefab pebbledashed) but when you do it buy some large squares of skrim think they come in meter square sheets and bet this into the first coat to try and reduce the cracking, which...

have they always been there or are they a new development, could be a number of things mabey movement?? tell me more (intreaged)

is that pic super zoomed in or is that plaster really really thick, how big is the hole??

haha i know you diddnt mean anything mate just pulling ya leg i usually try to get as many corners twitched as i can the house im on at the moment is diamond for then 4 bed house complete reskim and every room has a chimney breast in coupled with a big window and the angles in the loft are...

agreed mate render all the way and the higher the price the better (for us anyway to make up for all the cr*p prices weve put up with over the last few years) :lol:

nothing wrong with my twitching mate infact i prefer to twitch a corner than to do 2 dry corners dnt know why but i feel you get a beter finish with a nice wet corner, my sholders been fine mate haha cheekey sod. although i did rip my hand open today was holding the small tool and as i was...

if you skim over it use a WBA instead of a pva, ive used pva plenty of times BUT its not unknown for the pva to liven up the artex again and it could come down, so i always push to use WBA if i can.

i wassent trying to say thats too long as i havent seen it and i did say it must be fairly big to have 4 days in it but the general concencous was that a normal kitchen diner would only take mabey a day to a day and a half to board and a day to a day and a half to skim thus 3 days, but as i said...

i think he ment the square ends of the board joe not all round square boards that would just look attrotcious haha be a nightmare to try and get flat, i agree with you on the skimming though but if hes a diyer and doesnt have the money to pay a skilled tradesman then it is what it is i spose.

i was thinking the same 2 mabey 3 days depending on the size and complexity of the room, plus im not that quick at dot and dab anyway, this must be some mental big kitchin diner with loads of reveals and stuff to cut around to warrent 4 long days haha. put some pics up mate

i still think steve has it on the head if you mixed the pva too thick or applyd too many coats as soon as you put your plaster over the top it will liven the glue right up and when you try to flatten it it will still slip. you have to get the pva'in just right i.e not enough and itll suck like a...

bingo steve

at the end of the day its what he thinks hes worth and with 30 years experience he could well be the mutts nuts and he proberly knows it there fore charges a premium for his work, if as your saying loads of people have said hes really good then ask them what they paid for him, if they confirm it...