Recent content by Leahjayne

Thanks! Do you think the tiger stripes/marks are mainly due to adding too much water to slow the drying or because my trowel Angle was too open too early?

2 coats. 1 with a trowel and 2nd with roller to be quicker but by the time I'd got back with the ST speedskim it was too hard to flatten out so had to spray water to make it workable.

Had a go at plastering my first wall. Not a great job obviously, with it being my first time but I can't afford to get a Plasterer in. I was hoping that a few kind souls could just give me some tips about where I went wrong? I understand the process and have notes on touch tests to do but the...

Ooh and should I use easfill on he corners with the corner tape instead of multifinish because it's harder to feather out with it?

Thanks for all the advice! Sorry to sound like an idiot but just to double check, with smaller cracks easifill is better than multifinish? And do i need to let the easifill dry out before skimming? Then do the pissy coats of pva? I know all this is very basic but I've only just made my first set...

Thank you! Very helpful! I got this glue. Would you say 2nd tacky coat should be 2:1 or 1:1 with this one? How long after bonding do you do the first coat of PVA? Also, I have some smaller cracks I'm going to scrim and plaster over with multifinish but was just wondering should I do it the...

Does it sound like it would work and not cause any problems?

I am really stuck and after googling, I'm finding varying answers... I want to skim coat this wall but there are some cracks in corners and blown plaster. I want to fill the deep cracks with bonding and use corner tape and multifinish for the cracks in the corners followed by a skim coat. I will...