Recent content by FourInchesWide

Don't worry, I'm still alive and willing to learn. :-) My concern back then was how easily the foam appeared to delaminate off the board in cold or dampish conditions and, I suppose, was asking has anyone ever had them delaminate once fixed? Thanks all

[QU You'd have to own one to do that! :whistle:

30 bags over 3 gauges has gotta be easier than trawling car boots for a stock of Ladybird books!!!

I've created a s**t load of trouble for myself, family (and everyone else) over the years by over-polishing walls. I used to think the 'don't over-polish finish' advice in books was an old wives tale ... I found this out the hard way late in life only when I've come around to re-decorated my own...

So excuse me for being dense but what's the Bobby Moore on the two mist coats? I get the why behind the first coat? Why the second? I ask as if I'm generally getting my hands dirty, the second coat will be the final paint coat and whether that get's a second coat depends on whether it needs it...

The spine on a trowel is a cast alloy or aliminium? ... is it not? I've had this talk before with someone that knows about these things and was told it was an impossible weld? If you can weld them, put the rivet area in a vice or G clamp under V tight pressure and then apply the weld centrally...

When my lad was ?? ... about 18mths??? ... we're at home in the spare bedroom where I kept a spare trowel. I was so proud when he instinctively picked it up and walked to the wall and started trowelling the wallpaper!!! I thought "Yes... go on there my son" but he's since gone on to a 9-5...

Swear to god I've worked with that guy in the first image!!! :-0 It's Rex, the floorlayer!

Go on ... I'll bite. Why?

Before I could drive, I was doing a job for someone so the punter had to come and pick me up. He came to ours, we packed the car and got to his and found I'd forgot me tools ... took everything else though. The punter had to go back to ours for them while I did bits of prep. He came back from...

You berra believe it you liilterate asre!!

If it's flat and smooth, don't put yourself through major stress. Any bits of plaster that feel rough, like droppings or where he may have left 'fat' on the surface can be removed with the widest scraper you have. On the first image, I can see the odd thing: on the top of the left wall looks to...

Agree with above posts, mist coat it and then see what is what. Sand rough projections down and fill holes, etc. Often paint hides a lot of sins whereas wall-lighting is unforgiving. :rolleyes)

Is this a pub?

Sorry susan, not from North Wales so can't help. But I once watched that 'Don't get Dom, get even' over damp in a conservatory: the punter had the washing machine & tumble drier in there and they got Dom in over the damp (mildew) on the bits of plasterboarded walls under the frames. So errr...