Search results

  1. M

    How do you knock up lime plaster?

    I've got this from selco, just wondering how to mix it to patch a wall? Anyone had any experience of it?
  2. M

    Patch plastering in a Victorian terrace

    Hi, I am renovating a Victorian terrace in Manchester. Some of the plaster was loose, so I have chipped it away. However I'm not sure how to rectify it now. It's at the front of the house, and I am worried about damp forming if I do it wrong. Should I plaster it with hydrated lime or...
  3. M

    Is this Hygroscopic salts?

    1910s victorian mid terrace here. I've got a damp room downstairs, the symptoms of damp are showing up on the chimney breast and the bottom of the walls either side of it. Here are some pics I've taken, I think its salts causing this on the walls, rusting the plaster beading, flaking some of...
  4. M

    Hole in sub floor

    Hi, I live in a victorian mid terrace with suspended wood floors. At the front where the water main comes in, who ever has done it has just cut a hole in the sub floor, into the soil, and pulled the pipe through. The soil smells damp and spreads through the house. Any one got any ideas what...
  5. M

    How do i join this to an mdpe pipe?

    Hi, I'm sure this would be simple for someone but I'm an amateur plumber and am lost! I have discovered a leak under my floorboards, in the shared mains water pipe. It is part lead, and part metal. It is leaking from the lead section. I want to cut the metal pipe and join it to mdpe, but am...
Back
Top