This is the tool of choice for damp proofing companies https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feuchtemesser.jpg The Protimeter is pretty much ubiquitous in the damp and building surveying world. The meter is used to show owners how damp their homes are. This is also invariably …
How is this possible? Damp on an internal wall? – So no water ingress from blown render or poor pointing, no leaking gutters, no cracked tiles, no raised pavements above damp proof course, so what is going on? Internal walls …
I called LaFarge a couple of weeks ago to see if they had a product that might solve an issue I had some with very old lime plaster / render in my home. This was the response from their Technical …
I have just been renovating one of the rooms in our house. This has meant taking off the wallpaper and stripping it back to the plaster. Aprt from the multitude of other layers of paper and paint that we uncovered, …
Gypsum plastering is the modus operandi of the common plasterer. It is smooth, fine and cheap and colleges train people how to work it and get it looking as flat as you like. What is there not to like? On …
Gypsum plasterboards are a quick and cheap way of covering up walls. Combined with a skim of gypsum plaster this is the predominate way of getting a smooth finish on internal walls in the UK. Gypsum is a common mineral …
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