Professional plasterers will tell you a good chunk of their work comes from sorting out botch-job attempts at plastering walls or - even more calamitously - ceilings. So, we'd advise you to limit your ...

Patching a lath-and-plaster wall can be an interesting experience. Until about 70 years ago, before plasterboard was widely used, ceilings and internal partition walls were lined with individual ...

Q. We're buying a house that is probably close to 100 years old. It has been vacant for the past several years and needs a good amount of cleaning up and fixing up. One thing we're concerned about is ...

Q:We are getting ready to repaint our home office. The walls and ceiling were cracked during the 1989 quake and poorly patched before we moved in. We had the roof redone this summer, and the banging ...

Enjoy throwing the sticky plaster against the wall, pressing it on and spreading it out! Start plastering the wall and get an optimal, smooth surface to wallpaper or paint your walls. In this guide, ...

Houses around Reading will have many sorts of walls from plastered brick and mortar to stud walling with lath and plaster or plasterboard. Putting fixings into some walls presents DIYers with an ...