Plastering & Rendering Questions

Ceiling bulging following plastering?
Plastering & Rendering  •  2097 views  •  7 answers

I have just had artex living room ceiling plastered over. Since then have noticed a huge bulge in part of the ceiling and one or two smaller bulges. My family have owned this house for 40+ years and have never noticed these until now. Plasterer says not to worry it …

Taping ceiling angles
Plastering & Rendering  •  1936 views  •  8 answers

When your floating internal block work with sand and cement should you scrim ceiling angles and skim ceiling prior to floating walls??

Cleaning roughcast
Plastering & Rendering  •  1933 views  •  20 answers

Hi there I have a small mortar stain on the side of my house which isn’t coming up with water. Do you know how I’d clean it?

Plastering new shower
Plastering & Rendering  •  1932 views  •  9 answers

I'm plastering a new shower, theres an existing block wall and newly framed wall with cement board up. What kind of base coat and plaster do I need?

Finished plasterwork exposed to the elements
Plastering & Rendering  •  1910 views  •  8 answers

Hello We have had a conservatory built and basically the company we employed to build it sub contracted the work out. The brickwork is substandard and the contractors agree. The roof and outside brickwork needs to come down and rebuilt so my question is; As the wet weather is fast …

Who fixes render board
Plastering & Rendering  •  1874 views  •  7 answers

which trade should fix fibre cement render board to provide substrate for stonepanel cladding or through coloured render.

Window kitchen wall
Plastering & Rendering  •  1800 views  •  31 answers

I’ve took tiles off and had the old rails which you used to hang curtains from removed it’s in a bad state with some parts down to the brickwork can you fill in the holes and then plasterboard or is it best to take it all down to the brickwork …

Which trade needed for ceiling?
Plastering & Rendering  •  1725 views  •  24 answers

The utility area in my house has wooden beams, and I want to put a ceiling (plasterboard?) to cover them. Which tradesmen can do the job? A plasterer?

Is it safe to overboard asbestos artex?
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We have a few Asbestos Artex ceilings which we want smoothing as they're cracking, we had a quote from a plasterer and they said we'd need to overboard because the cracks will come through if skimmed. I'm just concerned about drilling into the Artex when putting up the plasterboard or …

Quote for rendering front elevation
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We've received a quote for rendering the front elevation of our (detached) house of £2500. I wasn't expecting to pay that much so was wondering if that was on the high side or just average for rendering just 1 elevation