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We recently had our 1930s house replastered throughout and noticed some patches appearing through the mist coat. It’s been 5 weeks since the plastering was complete and appears to be totally dry.
When painting the issues seem to be where the plaster has some patterning as the attached...
Hi all.
I have recently purchased a house, and it is becoming quite evident that the previous owner DIY skills were lacking.
See attached photos. Whats the best way to tidy up these corners. Im going to paint a different colour, but it looks like he has slapped the paint without a care in the...
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We had our house painted a few months ago. In one of the rooms there are now strange marks at the edges of the walls - it looks like they're stretch marks!
I was wondering if anyone knows what this is?
I painted stairs in a combination of White and a dark grey tinted colour - ‘Noble Grey’ both in oil based Dulux trade satinwood. The white was just an off the shelf tin, they grey was a made to order tint. Both bought at the same time and used less that a week later in March this year. 2-3 coats...
Hi everyone I’m not painting expert, as you can probably tell, I had a new window fitted replastered and new window board, I did the painting first I did the walls and then painted window board with primer and gloss when I removed the masking tape the gloss started to tear and leave a poor...
I feel like I've written about this a million times, but here goes....
When I moved in my property 8 years ago, I had tha bathroom retiled and the bathroom wall replastered. It's an exterior brick wall in a victorian house.
It then transpired the tiles were fixed directly to the plaster, with...
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I painted a door and after the paint had dried some defects were showing. On some areas, it looks some bits of dust/dirt had possibly blown onto it, but other areas the dried paint had mini round indented ditches/spots.
It was a while ago when I painted it, but from my memory, I think...