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Its ok, i'm the customer :) its my house. We rendered it last year but the roofer had to remove cut up for his lead flashing. FOrtunately the area isn't in direct view from the garden.

From the bottom of the belcast i've removed about a foot of render high by a bout 8 feet wide, this goes back to the brick. I added a scratch coat the other day and today I am added the top coat. Do i need to add a piece of tape where the old render will meet the new at the join? ..any...

Haha true that.

That was the only high ceiling the rest shouldn't be too bad and I doubt mind doing it myself, still was a pain to spend all of yesterday evening fixing it. But its ok now. I pushed in a load of drywall adhesive into the big gaps and will give them a fine lick of easifill later before...

I'm putting up a 40cm artex ceiing rose so that should just about cover the hole... just.

This isn't a guy out of the yellow pages, he is a neighbour so telling him hes not getting paid isn't an option, its £50 not £500. Just happy I didn't go with the offer of everything on a price. Anyway.. off to the house now for an evening of making good, perhaps I should send him an invoice...

£50 for 3.5 hours

I would say, just check my board ceiling for proof.

I can give you a recommendation to someone i know :D

Thanks. I don't think the gapes are bigger than 30 mm so the tape will be ok ,haha. I have spare Drywall adhesive so I will go with that, followed by scrim and some pva before skimming. Screws - Yeah, I plan to remove the dodgy countersunk ones (his screwgun kept jamming so he'd take the...

when i've put up boards onto walls and ceilings in the past i'll mark the ceiling or floor in the middle of the joist then get a straight edge and run a pencil line so I know that the screws are in the dead middle of the board. I would think a stringline would be a better method but I don't have...

I can't take them down and redo do it as I would have to do it myself and I can't do a 3m high ceiling on my own with big boards, i get arm pump even with 2 people. I thought i'd: 1) where possible replace badly measured boards. 2) Fill small gaps with easifill and scrim 3) Fill large gaps...

For that very reason i'm going to skim it myself :D

Yeah, its pretty bad. His main excuse was that they're 12.5 boards and he's used to 15mm and that none of the walls are straight. He was a little embarrassed about it and didn't ask for the full amount. I felt a bit embarrassed to as he's self employed. He saw that i'd done the bathroom...

Glad I got the pro in to help: