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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...

A guy in my street is going to help me do some boarding. Said to him about 10 times I don't want a price, I just want him to give me a hand doing some dot and dab and a couple ceilings, regardless he keeps saying he's got a mate to help and he'll do some rate per square meter. Anyone suggest a...

Hello you sexy b*tches. Ok, so i've a plasterer coming next week to render the back of my place with my help :) saving the pennies so sorting all the other things out. He said get Belcast and Angle beads and he's now on holiday so I can't ask him these questions: 1) Are Stop Beads the same...

Nearly fell off my chair when I saw the price of a carpenters quote for alcove floating shelves that go from the wall to the fireplace. the alternative is ikea floating shelves cut then decoraters caulked. But what about shelves made from stuf and plasterboard and then skim?

I have 2 ceilings that after the plumber and sparky have okayed everything will be boarded and skimmed, the joists are about 6-8 inches. Now i would like to soundproof the ceiling but i've found that its either very expensive or very complicated. I am not expecting great results on the cheap...

In the kitchen of the house i'm renovating there is a slight damp issue on 2 walls the kitchen will be fitted, the damp goes about 1/2 a meter up the the wall with the window and the other wall some of the bricks are damp also. The house is a 100 year old victorianand I had damp issues...

Why is it people say this? After my efforts of plastering I have had a few marks here and there, nothing terrible but kinda what you would expect from an amateur. Before I painted everything I gave these a light sand and they came out fine. Just wondered why people say this? or is it just for...

My little bathroom has been gutted and I need to start boarding it after the plumber has done a temporary first fix. Bearing it mind it is fully tiled which boards would you use for walls and ceilings. Cheers

Alright guys. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30346879/plaster_angle.JPG After the boards are butted together along the join do you just run scrim tape and then skim? Do you try and cut the plasterboard at an angle to reduce the gap? Also, is it the same method for an outer join?

This is in the hallway, it feels almost solid and is littered with cracks. Any suggestions on how to attack it? I take it screeding the whole wall is not an option

I recently skimmed a chimney breast and a 1 meter long crack line has appeared, i know that the crack has formed above where the original plaster has met the patching I did with bonding prior to skimming. Sure fellow plasterers have had this kind of hairline crack appear before. Do i sand over...

Unfortunately as my house doesn't appear to have any plumb walls or 45's i've a few gaps between the each piece of plaserboard only around 5mm at the biggest point and a few bits around the edges that need filling. Can a bit of bonding then scrim tape fill the gaps? or is best to use easifill...

Hi, Unfortuantely I can't get hold of Dri-Coat anywhere near me so I am going to have to use limelite which says you must use their high impact finish as a finishing plaster (as opposed to multi). I am only rendering around 1m up the wall to butt up against the existing plaster then skim the...

Sorry for the bad pic, but thought it was better than none. The cladding along this wall I want to remove, I was about to pull it out today when I found its quiet securely attached to the stairs, the skirting on the stairs, the handrails, the architraves etc etc.. So the builder side of me...

Hi, I'm going to be dot and dabbing this chimney breast, its currently got this horrible textured render which looks horrid and also the opening in the middle which I think used to be an oven in Victorian times. This room is forming the new kitchen diner extension so I was planning to put a...

Had to happen sooner or later. Well today I was skimming a big wall (for me around 4mx2.5m) and I found the plaster going off whilst I was doing the first layer :/ Even though I PVA'd the the wall it was about 60% fo the wall and after 3-4 minutes after applying the plaste rwould rip/tear...

Hi Guys, Around 2 months ago I removed the render all around the bay window because it was damp, in some areas the plaster would come off in my hands. I've heard that victorian places are notorious for this kind of damp and tanking is the way to fix. I've done some reading about tanking and...

hi guys, After all of your great help the 3 bedrooms are now made good.. skimmed and mist coated, all good so far. I've moved onto the hallway and removed a big cupboard that kindly removed a lot of plaster from the wall, no problem on this, bond and skim later. In the picture above you...

I'm psyching myself up to skim a upstairs hallway wall, i've plastered the other side of this lathe wall in the bedroom the other week and that was ok, however I notice on this wall there is one crack that is very long... What would you guys do, this crack is about 3 foot long? just scrim...

Hiya chaps, While working at my snail pace earlier I started looking at a wall that had been confusing me for a while. I thought it was a little strange that there was one alcove in this bedroom but not another but after stripping the paper I noticed that on the left side the...

Hey guys, looking at below the window. Can you skim the whole thing in one go or do you have to use stop beads butted together in the between the 3 sections?

When i did a course we had these big nails, clout i think they were call and we'd tap them onto stop adn corner beads and that was that.... in my house I have plaster walls that need beads and last night the nails just bouncd off the wall... i then tried a screw.......dreadful idea, stuck out of...

I am going to skim the whole wall but first I need to sort out this: the socket is a spur. Not sure how secure the socket is going to be in the lathe plaster? I'm guessing that it was pulled out fo the wall prevously as it was not secure.. so I think i'll just move the spur elsewhere in...

Quite new to plastering, so sorry if this has been asked before. Anyone eat Multi? earlier today I was so hungry and just put the first coat on, while I was throwing 3/4's of what I mixed up away I put a bit of it in my mouth, it wasn't that bad, the texture was ok as it was quite fine, i...

Had my first experience with Bonding the other day.... applied it about 11am around 10mm thick, its lovely stuff, feels nice to put on such big amounts compared to multi, I got it level (ish) with a wall brick it butting up against.. left it about 20 minutes and gave it a little scratching up...

Evening, I've started a couple walls in my 'lovely' new house: ..and its going quite well, retained quite a bit from the intensive course last year. Main area I need to improve on is making sure the coverage is even as I do have a couple thin bits. Anyways :)... the house is pretty tired...

Hi all, Let me know how you would do this. I basically cut two chases, 1 for a spur and one for network/coax/ethernet for tv and then went about swapping the surface mounted double gang for a flush one.... except at there was a problem drilling the brick to mount the back box, the brick moved...