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thanks, I just thought I might need to use something like this thats all.. http://www.insulation.kingspan.com/uk/pdf/nilvent.pdf if i don't then great, makes it cheaper and quicker cheers Joe

Hello all, I am after some advice on dry lining a single skin concrete block wall. The building contains a small store room and dairy processing room so doesn’t need to be particularly well insulated, just lined to make it clean. It is built from concrete block and painted on the outside...

Hello plasterers, I have done a fair bit of skimming but don't have much experience of base coats/rendering. I am going to be skimming a wall this weekend but I think it will need a bit of levelling in places to make it good. The base is a mixture of painted plaster, render and filler that has...

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Once I cleaned off all the 'distemper' (now I know what it is) the PVA took and the plastering went ok. thanks

Hello, I am a diy plasterer, I have just skimmed a room after a weekend of paint striping. I initially PVA'd the walls over the paint, went back a while later to see how it was drying and all the paint had blistered, so I had to scrape it all off. It left a white powdery residue which had to...