plaster

I have a conservatory of which the walls are double skin brick. I want to plasterboard the walls and then skim the surface. I have ruled out dot & dab adhesive due to the potential for moisture to be absorbed by the adhesive resulting in loose plasterboard. Instead I have opted for treated...

I noticed this reverse Z-shaped protuberance in the hallway last night with the light on. It is just a wall that separates the living room and the hallway - it does not back on to outside. Does anyone know what it is and how it would be fixed if you think it needs fixing? Thanks.

Hi guys, I need some advise on how to repair my walls so I can paint them. Complete novice so all help appreciated! I’ve stripped the wallpaper in the bedroom and there is a spiderweb of cracks underneath. Some are hairline, most are 1mm and there’s a few that are 2mm wide. There’s a 2mm layer...

My bathroom has a damp wall from where the roof was leaking that (I think) I've cured. The bathroom is a lean-to extension built off the back of the house, and where the roof met the wall there was a big gap. The wall pictured would have been an exterior wall originally. I'm now attacking the...

Hi, I'm having this ceiling overboarded later on this week. I just wanted to know if this is okay for the boards to go directly on or if I should scrape the paper too. I'd initially planned to leave the paper on completely but when I was pulling the coving down the top layer of paper started...

Hi there, Would really appreciate some advice. I bought a house a few months ago and hired a painter and decorator to strip the wallpaper clean the walls and to paint the walls of the living room. He explained the walls were not in good condition but was happy to do it. After painting the...

any ideas on what to do? I recently had all my walls plastered. I left them just over a week to dry and then used an undercoat designed for metal accidentally. The paint is oil based, so I just wanted to check what was best to do? Should I use a paint stripper like paint panther? Will this...

So lets say you were doing a re-wire and needed to chase out walls to run new cables, would you bother using capping over the new cables before plastering over the chase to fill it in, and if so, would you use plastic or metal capping? I know that both plastic and metal capping provide no...

Hi all hoping for some advice. Got some damp patches showing through above fireplace / chimney breast. Moved in 3 years ago and patches were there so nothing new. Was an open fire but now a log burner with lined flue. Any ideas what might be the most likely cause? Have recently sanded paint...

Hi I'm having some plastering done on a few rooms in my house. The plasterer is doing a good job as far as I can tell. I noticed though a few marks on the freshly skimmed room and wanted to know if it is anything to be concerned about, do I need to ask for anything to do done, or is it...

Hi Everyone, TLDR; How should a DPM in a new floor slab connect to the DPC in the walls? Does it seem like I should add a DPM to the walls based on the plastering we found? I'm trying to get my head around how the (rising damp) moisture management in my house should work. It's a 1930s semi...

Hi I live in a new build (been built about 6 years, we have lived here 3). In the en-suite, the tape has blown and we have some paint cracks in the walls. I have been told this is because the walls/ceiling were not plastered. So, I am getting some quotes to: -Plaster all walls and ceiling...

I got my porch plastered by my builder two years ago after the installation of BT optic fiber. This was to hide the hanging cables. Now I would like to have Community Fiber running alongside BT to test and switch to whoever is more reliable later. See the picture with the cable arriving at the...

I recently took some wallpaper off a wall. There was crumbling plaster underneath it. It is a big area. It looks like if you put your finger through it then you will go right through the plaster. Is it possible to save the plaster there without having to replaster it? Any thoughts/ideas would...

Before someone start yelling at me: NO, I didn't. But sadly the people I got my house from did, and now the bathroom paint is peeling off. :rolleyes: I was wondering what is best: applying zinsser base + paint on top, or I need to take a more drastic approach like sanding it/using other...

I got a new boiler fitted. The plumber, however left the wall behind stripped down to bricks, pieces of old plaster. The issue is - there are dust particles falling off the wall and spreading all over my kitchen with boiler use. The solution I imagine would be to plaster behind the boiler...

Hello. One of my bedrooms had its ceiling replastered about 5 years ago and I, at the time, foolishly and unknowingly, didn't mist coat it. It doesn't look terrible, but I'm not particularly happy with it (or myself). We have spotlights in the room and it's very obvious where I've cut in, and...

I’ve had my bathroom ceiling plastered a couple of months ago, we sanded and primed before painting. Recently we noticed this mark coming through. Could this be the plaster?

Just curious about people's thoughts on this I'm currently working on a diy project of a wetroom on a first floor with only loft space abovr. I was planning to use duplex boards and a primer but wondered since it will be a small wetroom with potentially a lot of hot steam would it be worth...

We’ve had some pipes for a new radiator channelled into the walls. It’s already been filled in by the plumber and we need to cleanly finish it off and paint it before the radiator can go on It’s been filled with a rough mix of something. Can I skim over with a ready made plaster as it is? Does...