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Hi every one need some advice i have a job where i need to screw fix thermal boards to brick walls what screws should i use and how do i fix cant use board adhesive as custom needs to get floor boards up .walls are old bricks and new blocks boards are 5cm thick thanks

im a tiler with no qualifications but my boss is pushing a lot of the tilers through the health and safety test in order to get us nvqs so i guess he must be getting some money from someone to do it

sorry to keep bringing pva up bust still causing me agro had to re skim some walls in a kitchen,filled some holes with bonding pva d the walls with week pva water mixture let it dry (3 hours) felt dry ? put another coat on a bit stronger let it go tacky then spread on it got 1st coat on then it...

sorry lads you have probably been here before but keep having problem with pva just checking im using the correct stuff. I get my pva from wickes and use the non waterproof one to seal walls when i go to spread on it it goes back to its watery state ,should i be using the waterproof one .when i...

Hi i have just looked at a job that the guy wants a price to re skim two rooms inc ceilings the walls are painted i was going to roll them with bond it then skim is there anything i should watch out for ie paint not bonded to the wall strong enough .Any advice

a little bit of info travis perkins own wickes so why cant they do stuff at the same price ?

sorry but still new to plastering and seem to be confused is the tacky pva coat to stick the plaster to the wall or will plaster stick to the dry pva coat.i have had problems recently re skim on bedrooms put a 5/1 coat on walls 3 days before i skimmed it put a 1/1 coat on let it go tacky but...

Sorry second question been doing a lot of ceiling s usually lug trestles and boards upstairs takes forever have heard of " cripples " can any body advise me where i can get these or what they are ;D is there another name for them ?

Hi everybody need advice been doing re skim work over original plaster ,mate i was working with did not want to pva twice so put course sand in neat pva and rolled over walls ,the next day we skim straight over this .Is this a recognised way to do job ? any poss probs this is my first time on...