plastering

Hi all, need some quick advice. After taking the skirting board off, I've been left with 6 inch tall gaps. Which is fine, my plan was just to fill it up from floor to wall (with a 20mm gap of course). But that's not the major issue, in one of the pictures, under the window a fairly large chunk...

Hi all Bit of a small problem I'm having. I managed to create a small hole in my wall, smacked into it with a laptop and it's somehow hit it with enough force to create a small dent/hole. I'm renting the property so if I can somehow fix this myself I'd be very pleased. These are the...

I am purchasing a lower ground floor flat and we have identified that there is a fairly bad damp problem. We have had a damp specialist in and they have recommended the treatment outlined at the end of this post. They have mentioned we should give the plaster 1 month per 25mm of wall thickness...

Hi, I have a dividing metal stud wall along one side of my new bathroom. One small section of it will be in a walk in shower so I'm cement boarding and tiling that area, but the remainder of the wall (divided by the vertical line of the shower screen) will be moisture resistant plasterboard...

Hi all, I'm fitting a small utility area at the back of my garage with some worktop and cupboards on the wall. Following building work the back wall has ended up a combination of brick, breeze blocks and some smaller areas of cement infill, so I'm looking at plastering it. Part of the wall backs...

Hi I've ended up scraping back some loose flakey paintwork in my kitchen and lounge. I'm wondering if I should just sand the edges and paint it, or should I be looking to plaster these patches? The walls aren't exactly perfect everywhere anyway I have some multifinish, can I just skin a bit...

Hi guys, Just wondering if it's a good idea or pointless to prime paint a door lining/casing in situ before plastering around it to try and block moisture getting into the frame and possibly having it swell as a result? is this a thing? Overthinking?

Hi. We have a residential 'asbestos in textured wall coating' problem in our recently bought older house. (1925 large 3 bed semi). We want to get our hall, stairs and landing reskimmed but one wall has blown from the brick and sections are damaged. I also had an asbestos test come back...

I have a stud wall that has finished depth of pretty much spot on 100mm I have planed timber door lining that is about 108mm is 4mm on each side too much to ask of skimcoat? should i be thinking of getting 2-3mm off the door lining timber or is there smarter ways to do this?

Hi All, like to think I'm generally competent diyer, though regards to plastering have only ever patched up existing blown plaster. correction: 13 years ago dot dabbed drylined garage to room conversion and tapped all joints before pro plasterer called in , he was complementary of my work...

Hi had my kitchen ceiling skimmed about 5 weeks ago, over the top of the old ceiling which was just in a bad state. It was boarded originally. Everything has been fine, until yesterday, I noticed a yellow stain in one of the corners. Ironically it’s the corner than dried out first after...

Hi, our boiler packed in and we're having a new one installed in a couple of weeks, along with new radiators. One of the walls with an existing radiator needs replastering, and more replastering will need to be done around the old back boiler site once it's been removed. I'd far rather get the...

After 3 years of being in our house we've finally come to do up the dining room which is an extension built in the late 80s. It's freezing in the winter because it's essentially got 4 external walls - 1 backs onto garage, 2 are external and the other one is the old external wall of the kitchen...

Hi All, I’ve been having some work done in the garden and as part of that I’ve had the garden wall rendered, the company I’m using have subcontracted the work out and I’m not very happy with the finish. I’m hoping someone will be able to guide as to what’s gone wrong and give me the knowledge...

Can anyone help me with this? The online calculators are pretty basic and don't really do the job. Am in a reasonably prosperous town in Wales. Have had prices of 1.5k and 2k? Any help would be appreciated. 5x4x2.3m room. How much is reasonable to pay for: A) 2 coat skim on pre boarded TE...

I had a go on my first dot and dab for my boiler cupboard ready for plumber to come dowm and first fix. Considering there is no multifinish plaster at moment all around the country. can I plaster/skim the plasterboard directly with bonding 60 of british gypsum or ideally need to wait for a...

As I had now removed most of my hard plastering inside the house due of the age and completely came apart from the wall. I was suggested to use dot and dab plasterboard system instead of plastering the whole house. Can someone advise on pro and cons of each method and which one would be the...

Hi all Renovating our first house slowly. Neither of us any good at any forms of DIY Had a room rewired as plug sockets were still the originals which meant the deep shirting boards needed to come off..... What we are left with is holes! How can they be re fitted once the plastering is done...

Can I just ask when you have two sockets with with about a few cm in between how do you plaster or fill in between them or does the face of the sockets cover them. The thing I am referring to is I have a two gang socket then a small gap about a cm or two and then an Ariel socket. There needs to...

As the lockdown is slowing everything down and no delivery at moment. I was wondering what would be the best plasterboard brand to use. Moast DIY sell Knauf or Gyproc? Are those any good? As I live near a train line I was wondering to use soundblock for ceiling as well. Is it worth the extra...