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Hey Ree, yeah, there was some definite loose plaster round the holes - I pulled the loose bits away. When cleaning the rest of the walls I removed the skim in a few other places. When knocking the walls, there's a few places where the tone changes. It sounds more hollow - generally around...

Easi-fill is great! Repairs are looking grand - smooth and solid. Thanks for the advice everyone.

Thanks all. Yes I was a bit rough when removing the furniture - had been glued to the wall.. The undercoat plaster (bonding?) had crumbled towards surface around a few plugs. There's a couple more plugs I'll maybe just knock deeper. Go a bag of easi-fill today so will plaster tomorrow. I'll...

Just to update this post for others.. I tried just painting the polished marble with Annie Sloan chalk paint. Nae use whatsoever! It just scratched off and looked a mess. I scraped it off, sanded the fireplace down and added a primer coat of Zinsser 123, and then painted over with 2...

I need to patch up some walls in our house. The skim coat has come off in several areas: removing very old rawl plugs has pulled away some crumbling plaster, and in other areas the skim coat pulled away from the concrete wall when removing a built in wardrobe. I've uploaded some images...

Hi there, We have a peach marble fireplace we're going to paint over - can't afford to get rid of it any other way. Been looking at how to do this properly. It looks like a good sand (at 80grit?), followed by Bullseye 123 and then an eggshell top coat would work well. My other half has...

Just to follow up on this, I used a couple of coats of full strength trade to give it a base, sanding down between coats to feather the edges properly. After that I painted over with topcoat. As suggested it covered fine, it's just the texture that needed work. In the end with a matt top...

Nice one - I'll give that a shot. We used Leyland Contract Matt for the mist coat so hopefully that's OK and I'll give it a less-diluted coat. Yes - roller for the mist and brush for the spot prime. Thanks - spent last month in the lounge prepping and sanding everything in sight so keen to...

I'm new to DIY and new to this forum - hi. I think I've just made life difficult for myself. We recently had our lounge replastered and I've now applied two mist coats. I was given some advice that the metal beading under a corner edge could rust through and some preventative action would...