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Hi everyone! We have been slowly renovating our hall and landing walls and ceilings - back from brick and lath the past two years and had some new electrics put in before plastering up. Our electrician is young, slightly arrogant but suitably qualified and made a bit of a hash job of...

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Just to update, the guys are here and I've pointed out the really unlevel areas. Turns out, there is a massive sag from the centre of the ceiling that is out at the edges by upto 1½"!! We've talked it through and they are going to batton out the edges and use the lowest point of the centre...

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Well I think we're going to have to try and do it ourselves and ship out daughter out on a weekend! The thing with the loft is it has old dusty fibreglass insulation in at the moment and we didn't want to move it until it starting sagging through having taking off some laths. I've seen a really...

Hi. So some of you may have seen my other posts on our hallway rennovation of our 1920s semi. Well it's been back to brick and laths for a couple of months now and we are not getting anywhere! I had to let our agreed builder go, before he put it back together, as I learnt that it had lime...

Well the plasterer went AWOL on Saturday and so now just the Electrican is coming today. Aside from not knowing what to do about the plasterer (how long would you give a tradesperson to put you straight over communication of availablity, if they told you their wife suddenly had kidney stones...

Hi. So we're having the hall renovated and I've forgotten until a week before, due to the stress of the cost spiralling, to tell the Electrican that the Plasterer is coming the same day! Worst still, that we wanted to move the understairs door to the left slightly, to create shelves inside to...