plastering

I found out that the ceilings on my first floor were renovated but the laths were kept and pins were used instead of screws. My first question. Is it worth to remove the old plasterboard attached to lath and replace with a fresh one and maybe just tape and joint or new plaster? Why the lats...

Hi all, So I'm plastering onto a wall and needed some pregrit. However can anyone tell me what the difference is between yellow and blue pregrit? Any recommendations as to which ones to use/avoid?

So I'm a little confused as to what the plasterer is supposed to be doing having had some different advice. I've taken the walls back to brick in my 1930s victorian home. I have spotted some damp in the kitchen so got a damp specialist in to have a look. He noted some of the work of the...

Hi, I have moved into a victorian house which had a dripping stopclock in the cellar, which has been fixed up and has now started to dry out. Now looking at the plaster in the room above it. I have taken a picture of one of the (Edit: internal brick) walls, that was under the woodchip...

Leopard spots on wall after fooling in 2015 gas turned of for 2 years caused by leak and there maybe exposed asbestos from popcorn ceiling

Hello I have a hole in the wall from an old power socket which I would like to fill in and then skim with plaster. What's the best way to fill the hole which gives the plaster layer something good to adhere to? Thanks for your advice

Hi All First time post, hopefully someone in the know can help me out. Currently in the process of having my fully bathroom renovated. It's been tiled and grouted the issue now is the plumber doing it has said the cabinets are too heavy to hang on the plastered/tiled wall. Theres a mirrored...

Hi All. I plan to install internal french doors into a gap but I need to add some stud-work on either side and a header plate. One side the stud wall will meet an existing wall at 90 deg so straightforward. However, the other side needs to join onto an existing section of wall. This...

how best to leave this for plastering? I will be hiring a plasterer for the job. The insulation is 25mm. Just insulation tape and let the plasterer sort it out insulation tape and stick in a strip of plasterboard something else

We are currently refurbishing our bathroom and installing a new suspended plasterboard ceiling to replace a suspended tongue & groove ceiling. When removing the t&g ceiling this evening, I noticed that the old lath & plaster ceiling above has a large hole in the plaster, about 50 x 80cm...

I've had some new smaller radiators fitted leaving patches behind where the plasterer before we moved in didn't remove the radiators. As the patches are so small I was going to scrape off the woodchip wallpaper as it's falling off anyway and then skim the patches with thistle mutli-finish. My...

I'm going to have a go at skimming some plasterboard in a walk in closet over the weekend and just wanted some guidance with regards to whether I can skim two walls one after the other without the first fully setting, and what the risk is of damaging the skim on the first wall whilst working on...

I'm in the process of constructing a small stud wall / door way (around 250mm of stud either side of the doorway), which butts up to a brick wall so that the entire thing runs like one continuous wall. The brick wall has had the plaster stripped away approx 200mm back from the new stud wall...

I was hoping I could get some help with plastering a window reveal. There's roughly 80mm of the cavity at the head of the window lying open between the frame and inner leaf of block work and the cavity gap is packed with mineral wool, so how would a plasterer go about bridging this? I ask...

Hi, guys, Currently having a nightmare, my ceiling plasterboard has been removed by my plasterer because of cracks and leak. I have him booked in for Friday (Tomorrow) 22nd September 2017 to put up the new plasterboard and skim etc.... Sadly, my plaster does not have a van to pick up the...

Hello so I've got a future project I'm going to be doing with me and some mates, I have a shed that we're gonna do up and we're looking for advice? Now I'm fairly competent with the electrical side of things so that's not a issue. Here's some photos now my granddads a builder but he said he...

My chimney breast had severe rising damp and damp patches all around skirting board level. I found that the hearth was completely made up of soil, so I dug it all out and laid a damp proof membrane and concrete hearth. I'm now looking to have the chimney breast replastered (well, preferably...

Hi, we moved into an old terrace 3 years ago that had been renovated by the previous owner. Most of the plastering is quite good except in the hallway and up stairs, we thought some sanding would solve the uneven walls......We now know why the walls are so bad, we can see wall paper pattern...

Hi guys (photos attached) I recently moved in to a Victorian terrace and I'm in the process of giving it a bit of a face lift. This includes replastering the hallway. In the hallway there is an arch, which had been hidden away behind a stud wall, and the arch itself was covered with wallpaper...

Hi there, Just moved into a new house,a semi detached and it needs work. Part of which is addressing the cracked and broken render around the base of the house . See image below. In some sections the brickwork is exposed. Obviously it needs repaired, but just how serious is this?How would you...