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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...

George mate, who misses scrim off? It's only the very basic bodgers and I suggest if they don't have the knowledge to put scrim on, they probably wouldn't have the skill to lay plaster on a ceiling and if they did get it on, you'd see a lot more issues up there than a hairline crack and the...

Yes, this caught me out recently. I can't believe the things you forget... scary!!!

A lot of shxxe talked in this thread. Scary what strangers are putting into a customers head so he can fire it at some poor guy who's probably done a decent job. [re-skin a ceiling due to a crack? I hope the bonding agent used adheres 100% or there's an even bigger mess!!!] I had the abve...

BG used to make a modified form of Browning for thermalite called 'Browning HSB' [High Suction Backgrounds]. Mustn't be enough demand for it nowadays seeing as dot&dab is king. If cost of bagged background coat is an issue, or you have damp probs, go with sand/cement? I would damp the wall with...

... and half inch would be twice as good! :-)

This may be the explanation. Thanks.

Thanks Peter. So if you decline their services & fee, you still get paid weekly? And there's no bad points coming down the line that will blind-side you? That's all I'd be interested in. But I thought I'd give this an airing as a bit of a warning as it was a new one to me. This isn't just a...

What's 'oversite'? So Malc, you're screed was approx. 1" thick and that was only possible as it was a 'mono' screed? (effectively, there being no joint between the layers) The sand being to keep moisture in the screed and stop brickies sxxt marring the surface? Just trying to understand. ;-)

What the xxxx is it? Certain agencies now only manaage the people managment side of their buisness and they sub-contract the financial side to a seperate firm, the one I met was Crest Plus. One of the options this financial falicitating firm presented me with was do I want to pay £22.50 a week...

I think monolithic flooring is something in one layer. It's a long time since I heard the term in college but I guess you could think of a trowelled, concrete slab as a monolithic floor? A quick Google reminded me that it may be when you lay a s/c screed upon a concrete slab while the concrete...

Have you got any metal 'C' channel from some of the wall lining systems? We used some that was 50mm across by about 12mm deep, we put that across the rafters to catch the boards either side of the join. You have to notch the C channel for the rafters and cut into the celotex as well. But it's a...

Hi Using 8x4 with 1in of insulation on the back for ceilings so they are mechanically fixed. My question: can you dot & dab them? The BG book said "yes" and looking at the insulation, it's polystyrene given a outer surface of brown paper and the paper looks similar to what covers plasterboards...

"Tiger stripes"? Never heard of them but I think I know what you mean. Does it look like you closed in with the same mix as the 1st coat? I got it once, I blamed my using a newish stainless steel trowel on some of the trowelling up (if you don't use them, how are you going to wear them in?)...

Different quarries in diff areas of the UK. We in the North always got grey bonding, browning and carlite finish, the board finish could be either grey or pink. However, I believe those in the south got pink everything. IIRC, first time I ever saw a pink backing coat was in leicester and I...

I have done nothing different than how I've worked thousands of times already. My thoughts take me to contaminated sand, either not washed properly (re: the salt) or whether we introduced something. The wall by the front door (images 1 & 5) is 3ft wide, 9 high and with the original dado...

I did 2 small walls in sand/cement [about 4:1 mix] for family (brother). Now I didn't mix, he got his lad to, but he's mixed before and it's not exactly brain surgery. It was a cold, windy February day but nowhere near icy and I'm pretty sure I skimmed the backing coat next day A few weeks...

30% is emergency code or some such. He'll get the overs back end of year.

Has the finish, including tape or scrim, come away from the board? Has the paper surface of the board come away from the plaster filling within? 'Peaking'? I'm trying to understand that term. We once skimmed a bad batch of boards that had bubbles under the p/board paper. We didn't notice them...

If they are hagging at the front end, you'll face worse once the job is done.

God that's an old one. Does anyone actually do that? I was always amazed by plasterboard 'laths', that system uses that principle and you only scrim the ceiling and internal corners. The edges of the boards are round, iirc, and they rely on the finish being pushed thru to stop the joint...

Serious answr? a crack is due to background movment. The only time I've seen finish crack is down to excessive suction.

No, but it's a bloody good effort! I'll borrow that one if I may. [note to self, if job fails first blame owner for being lazy!]

New York? New York as in Harlem, Kojak and 5th Avenue? Callum mate, you wouldn't enjoy going to NY, it's a nasty, dangerous place, they hate the scottish there and if that wasn't bad enough, it would break your mothers heart and your girlfriend would only start sleeping with your best mate...

No, they don't have to be. In my world, a 'soffit' describes the underside of a lintel or maybe beam. But you hit on a prob I faced last week and was troubled. Plastering a bathroom with a stone lintel that had an internal and external face, i.e. it supported both courses of brick. What's the...

I'll fill yours if you'll fill mine for me! :RpS_wub:

So what does that tell you about the cause of the cracking? Seems clear to me. ;-)

Do window-sills expand when hot from the sun?? I'm asking as I've never heard of this being an issue/problem. I could see it being some sort of elaborate extra on some Govt. build or millionaire home to form a nice joint where two different materials meet and thus hiding the usual hairline...

Are u the guy who's been putting nails in my tyres?