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Hi guys Next project for the house is a new bathroom, basically im keeping the same type of fittings in the same locations but with a new suite. Im hoping to tile the walls too and basically do it all. Any suggestions to the order in which i shoudl to things etc, anyone know of any articles...

Hi I wonder if you guys can help with any suggestions; I have a kitchen extension on the house, but under the stairs it appears to have some rising damp. The extenstion external wall between next doors extension wall there is alot of debris which is over the DPC of the extension. Could...

Hi Guys Im decorating the spare room and wondered if you had any suggestings to plasterboarding? Any DO's or DONTS? is it a one man job or two? How long shoudl it take to plasterboard two small walls? and is dry lining a necessity? Any particular make of board to go for? And type...

Hi Guys Any suggestions to laying a laminate floor in a first floor bedroom? Any DO'S or DONTS? Any suggested products which people have used? I have heard a few bad things about certain floors etc Do the skirting go on before or after? Many Thanks Darren

================= lynda, moderator please post again in the correct forums, I can not split a single post

Hi I am doing the spare room and now thinking about some laminate flooring, I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. I am putting up plasterboards and having the other walls skimmed, I have removed the skirting boards: Do i lay the flooring with the new skirting boards down? There...

Hi guys heres an update and wondered if you could help me So far the really messy bits have been done, I have hacked the stud walls back to the laths and removed these and removed all the nails. There are two stud walls and one extrenal wall which is the outside of tghe building and an...

none of the plaster is loose just thoght it had to comr off for the plasterer to skim over, do u think i should leave the plaster on then

Hi guys heres an update and wondered if you could help me So far the really messy bits have been done, I have hacked the stud walls back to the laths and removed these and removed all the nails. There are two stud walls and one extrenal wall which is the outside of tghe building and an...

Thanks for the guide, im loking forward to the last bit! :-) ill let you know how it goes Darren

Thanks for the reply, ill remove the laths, would you put in some horizontal stuts between the vertical ones also? forgive my ignorance but what are tapered boards? any tips for definate dos or donts when im doing any of this, i have set out a little plan, please tell em what u think of it...

Hi eveyone, I wonder if you can help me. having been priced silly prices from builders to replaster my room I have decided to to most of the work myself except the actual plastering. So far I have stripped the walls, removed the skirting board and hacked off the plaster back to the bare laths...

Hi folks just a quickie, I have noticed that in the bathroom one of the walls looks like there has been some sort of liquid seeping throuigh the wall, not alot but its very small amounts almost invisible to the eye, brown ish liquid and is sticky to the touch. Looks like there has been some...

I have budgeted about £3000 for the project.

With summer hopefulkly on the way I am about to tackle a big problem, the garden! My first problem is the retaining wall, which at present is only approximately 2 feet away from the back of the house. My dilema is to I attempt to try and move the wall back which will be a very hard job...

Yeah i was thinking that he didnt want to do it, ive decided to patch the repairs with your suggestions then get a plasterer in to skim it all and give it a good finish, ill post pics of the efforts :-) Later ill be posting another topic regarding the gaps I have between the pvc window frame...

Thanks for the advice guys, I would definately prefer to leave it with a professional plasterer, would you suggest I fill the holes myself then let him skim the walls? or let him fill the holes too? I had one guy who said that the walls need to be chipped back and new plasterboard to be put...

Here are the pics of the holes in the plaster guys, one is quite deep, my fault for doing a little rooting around, can these be filled and skimmed over? out of interest whast the black stuff?

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Hi Third Eye, thanks for the reply, the walls are plaster, what would you reccomend I use to fill the holes or should I leave the filling and skimming to a pro? Would a picture help so you can get a better idea? Thanks again, I have 5 dyas off work so really want to get the ball rolling...