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    Plasterboarding advice - protruding corners / dry lining.

    Our 1930's house has solid brick walls and rather lumpy, bumpy plaster on the inside. As we've worked around the house decorating, we've tended to spend an awful lot of time makin gthe plaster good before lining papering the walls and painting. The end result is very good but it is jolly time...
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    Fitting DG frames in a rendered apperture

    I have 4 windows to replace, two of them are in plain brick walls where I can easily measure the size required, the other two are in a rendered wall. In this wall, the rendering goes into the reveal on the outtside. I have looked at how next-door have had theirs fitted and it seems the...
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    Mounting into crumbling/hard walls.

    We decided to put up a shelf in the lounge. One of those wher eyou cant see the brackets - used them before in our previous (1982 vintage) house with no problems. Four 8mm holes are required per shelf. I began by marking out where I wanted the holes and started to drill the first 8mm then...
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