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Hello, I have recently had my kitchen freshly plastered. I left the plaster 8 weeks to dry and then went round filling and flattening any cracks and defects before mist coating. For the cracks i raked them out to a 'V' shape with a stanley knife and then filled with easi fill and filled again...

Hello, I hope this is the right place for this. I have had my kitchen plastered and now are ready for mist coating. Like always, there was something i forgot to do before the plastering was done and i remembered just as the plasterers completed! Anyway, this job involved me using a 150mm...

Hello, I have recently had most of my house replastered. The plasterer has done a very neat job but i notice in most of the window reveals where the plaster either meets the door or the window, there are very fine hairline cracks appearing. They dont move back into the plaster but are more on...

Hello, I have had a couple of rooms plastered and there are a few hairline cracks as expected. Question is should these be filled before or after mist coating? If I do it before mist coating will this cause the moisture in the filler to be sucked to the plaster and cause filler shrinkage? Thanks

Hello, My house currently has pine skirting boards and architraves which have been stained with some almost orange coloured stain. As you can imagine it is hideous and i want to get rid of it. The skirtings and architraves are all about 20 years old and have been installed since house build...

I have an area of plaster near the corner where two walls meet where a strip approx 8mm wide is loose. Ive raked it out and it appears there is scrim tape behind there, but the plasterboard looks to have been cut too short when installed (see photos). What would the best way to fill this be to...

Hello, I have installed MDF skirtings and architraves to a room and have fixed these using countersunk screws in places where the walls arent straight and adhesive isnt covering it. I have used ronseal 2 part wood filler to fill the holes and sanded back. When i came back to the holes a...

Hello, I have had my existing floor screed dug out (over block and beam) throughout the ground floor of my property and UFH and a new screed put in. The screed has been poured about 4 weeks ago and the UFH has only just this week been commissioned on its lowest temperature (manifold outlet...

Hello, I am currently having an extension built and have also got a price to install wet UFH in both the extension and also the existing property at the same time. Existing property is 2001 built. The builder has dug a couple of trial holes in the existing floor and found it is a 50mm screed...

Hello, I need to fix a wall mounted storage unit onto the wall in my bathroom. The cabinet weighs 37kg. The walls are porcelain tile onto dot and dab plasterboard onto a breeze block inner leaf of the cavity wall. Given there will be a gap between the face of the tiles and the breeze block...

Hello, I am currently having an extension built and as part of the scope the builder is going to install underfloor heating throughout the rest of the house. The existing house is 2001 built and block and beam floor. The builder was planning to break out the existing screed and insulation...

Hello, I have recently had some ceilings plastered and the plasterer has left a band of PVA around the top of the walls all the way round the room approx 6 inches down the wall. I need to paint the walls in emulsion and the PVA wont shift so can anyone recommend a good product to coat over the...

Hello, My house has an attached garage in which the consumer unit is located. All the cabling from the consumer unit runs across the rafters in the garage and then comes into the main house via a hole in the external wall of the house (Cavity wall). It looks like the have made the entry by...

Hello, I have recently had an area of wall above a window opening re-plastered following removal of a wooden baton that was fixed in the wall for mounting a curtain pole. Only the area above the window opening was reskimmed (approx 1.7M wide & 600mm from top of the opening to the ceiling). The...

Hello, I have a leak coming from where the pipe enters the bottom of a radiator valve. The heating system uses plastic pipe, 10mm (see below). The replacement valve I have purchased has a backnut with a metal olive in it. Can olived fittings be used with plastic pipe, or does a specialist...

Hello! During some work to replace a section of down-pipe on my house i noticed a small section of brickwork that appears to have a step crack coming from the corner brick. The crack follows the mortar line and travels up between 3-4 brick levels before disappearing. See photos below. The...

Hello, i have a small crack in either top corner of the window reveal (where the sides meet the top). What would the best method be to refill this? Would caulk be better than filler to prevent re-occurence? I have some geocel painters mate and polyfilla also. Is it just a case of raking out...

Hello, I had new windows fitted a couple of months ago. The old windows had some odd shaped trims on them so where the new windows have been fitted, there is a gap at the edge of the reveal. The window fitter filled these gaps with filler, but it has started to crack. I have raked it out and...

Hello, I have had a new partition wall installed and plastered between a bedroom and en-suite. Where the walls meet at the internal corner, there is a small gap all the way up as shown below. What would the best product be to fill this? Caulk or filler? Thanks

Hello, I have removed some skirting boards in a room I am decorating and notice there is a gap all the way round between the bottom of the plasterboard and the chipboard floor. I understand the plasterboard Shouldn’t be butted up against the floor but I can feel draughts coming from the gap...