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    Fitting Skirting board to new plaster

    Couple of quick questions ........................ Have had some old walls skimmed and will be fitting skirting board, how long should I leave it to fully dry before I fit? I will be fitting with No More Nails or similar - do I need to score the bottom part of the wall to create a key or...
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    Laying slabs against the house

    Hi I am laying slabs on an area to the side of the house, have dug and laid hardcore to about 2.5 bricks below DPC so slabs will sit around 2 bricks below DPC (old house so slate DPC) Should I lay the slabs right up against the brickwork of the house or dig down 6 inches and lay membrane...
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    Pointing with a lime mix

    New to the forum I am re-pointing the house with a sand, cement and lime mix (6:1:1) and an area I did 3 weeks crumbles very easily when I run a pointing trowel across it Other areas done at different times previously with exactly the same ratios are rock hard What could have caused this...
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