flaking

Hi, My exterior wall (south facing - London) is flaking considerably. So I've read that the flaky paint should be removed before a stabiliser is used and then repainted. I'm worried that I may need to render/pebble dash it again. Looking at these photos, is it a simple remove flaky paint...

Hi all, Not sure if I'm in the right place but I'm in need of some help. I painted an external wall around 18 months ago. The wall is breeze block and rendered with sand/cement. The wall was painted with a thinned down white masonry paint as an undercoat and then it had 2 coats of vaspor...

Hi, I have a mid 1940s house so am assuming that the wooden skirtings, door frames etc are likely to contain lead... Should I be worried that many areas have chips exposing bare wood underneath and a few areas are flaky, potentially exposing my family to lead? (I used to think that as long as...

Hi, in my bedroom the ceiling is starting to flake in places. Here is the first place - https://imgur.com/HEa2k2X and here is the other side of the room - https://imgur.com/uFLJofw . I had a sample tested and it came back positive for Chrysotile, what can I do to make sure asbestos fibres aren't...

I have just had a major problem..... New skimmed plasterboard walls, dried for over 3 weeks. Some Tetrion "deep" filling in a few places. Applied 20% mist Farrow and Ball primer/undercoat, which went on fine with roller, brush around edges. ( as recommended by F&B for their emulsion) Filled...

Hi, I am currently decorating my house to make it look presentable for sale. The bathroom ceiling has been getting flakey for a while now so I have decided to tackle it. However, what I thought would be an easy fix, has turned into a bit of a nightmare really. I have been tackling the ceiling...

Hi folks, Excuse the newbie question, I'm sure this is pretty straightforward. Have a couple of areas in the house where the old paint is flaking. Problem is if I sand it, the paint continues to flake off until I have a large area of plaster and still flaky paint around the outside. Attached is...