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Hello plasterers! The plaster ceiling in our upstairs hallway will always be prone to cracking due to the unfortunate structural flex in the area from the loft access. There is no real practical option at the moment to change / strengthen the beams. The ceiling was reboarded and skimmed...

Hello experience DIY'ers, painters and pro-decs, I could use some advice here about which dilutions and readily available roller sleeves (screwfix, toolstation, Dulux Dec) you have found in your experience give the best results with Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt and Trade Diamond Matt paints. I have...

After an earlier problem with unsatisfactory mist coat adhesion, (as suggested by Mister Helpful, Joe-90, Phatboy and others) I am turning to Zinsser Gardz and have finally found a local supplier. From what I can tell Gardz is basically a drywall/ plasterboard sealer (with better...

I have a few very fine vertical cracks that have opened up in my plastered walls along the (insulated) plasterboard seams. I know that these joints were meshed, and that the plaster dried slowly and did not crack or craze with age. They resulted from specific trauma :oops: > In one case, the...

I never thought mist coating would leave me in the wilderness, but I have a dreadful sinking feeling I have a more than just a small problem here. I am in the the middle of a whole house refurbishment (an ongoing hell already several years in process) and have just finished mist coating two...