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    Tiling on Hardwall

    Ffs you can’t pva or sbr before you use porcelain tiles. They stoped that about 10 years ago because it fails Jesus Christ
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    Plastering Charges v brick laying fees

    If your a bricklayer you will be lucky to get 10 months in out of the year. If your a sparky or a gas man you have to pay for regulations and if your a chippy you need 10k of tools. If you skim on site you need a bucket hawk trowel and a 100 quid mixer. Painters get more then site plasterers now ffs
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    Plastering Charges v brick laying fees

    I only really work on price. I’m talking about normal plastering like hardwall not lime
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    Plastering Charges v brick laying fees

    Problem with plastering is if lads can skim they are a plasterer even tho they can’t float render or screed. If your a bricklayer you can either lay bricks or not. In my opinion people who can render and float should be on a minimum of £250 a day because the is lack of people who can do it
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    Lime plaster conduit protection

    That should be fine but you could go overboard and insulate with the foam lagging more so helps with condensation
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    Tiling on Hardwall

    No the tiller would. So the tiller has more then likely covered your arse and sealed it after he has finished so he doesn’t get a call back!
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    Renovating 300 Year Old Cottage

    Think might get into a bit of bother with that you should have really done a lime floor. I would advise to stay well clear of engineered wood now
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    Tiling on Hardwall

    No mate 15k for a bath not bathroom! How would you know do you pop back a few months down the line to check?
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    Tiling on Hardwall

    High end jobs when your dealing with people who pay 15 k for a bath. Probably a bit different if your doing a b and q special. Yes 2 mm of skim does stop it!
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    Tiling on Hardwall

    Use to have a huge contract with a big high street brand doing all the bathrooms. What a lot of plasterers and bathroom guys don’t no is if you tile on to neat bonding or hardwall it will eventually stain through the grout unless sealed. Sealing is another days work for tiler plus the sealer...
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    Lime plaster conduit protection

    Hi mate we always advise cables to put in the upvc oval conduit ( the tube like one ) And fix with stainless steel banding and stainless steel screws. Plastic and stainless steel is fine with lime so would try to avoid any thing else. If you are going for ufh always suggest trying to fit the...
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    Renovating 300 Year Old Cottage

    What’s on your internal floor?
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    Renovating 300 Year Old Cottage

    Not a keen fan on any of the pre bagged nhl and looking into it most contain cement. As your on stone needs to nhl based I’m not overly impressed with adding insulation to older buildings in renders myself I think it can be problematic
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    Is this acceptable?

    All really does depend all high end decorators would use a orbital sander with dust extractor on any plastering even new build between coats. They should be expected to do some level of prep especially on a old house even if it has been plastered!
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    Is this acceptable?

    It’s quite hard to create a bulge in skim it’s only around 3mm thick I would say the wall was most probably like this in the first place but skimming up to the timber would enhance it. It’s not the end of the world and can be sorted and improved with decorating prep surely the guy who...
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