Plastering & Rendering Questions

Work required to get rid of black walls?
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Walls are black in utility room I think it has been flooded from house above do i need plasterer or mold remover

Cracking plaster?
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I bought a new home two years ago and on the outside wall above the patio doors in the lounge and kitchen the plaster keeps blowing and cracking. It has been scraped and unbounded twice and had done it again. Can anyone help please?

Can I plaster over 30-year-old board with SBR/PVA post wallpaper removal?
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I have just removed wall paper from dining room wall and it was papered straight onto existing board. Its probably 30year old board,Is it possible to plaster over this if I SBR/PVA it.

Gaps between plasterboards
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I am having a refurbishment and the builders have installed double plasterboard in the ceiling. The top layer of the plasterboard has an area where the boards are not joined and there is a gap between them. Is this an issue?

Plastering damp line
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We've recently had damp proofing carried out throughout our downstairs. They took 1.2m of plaster off round the bottom half of the walls, back to brick and treated them. Then rendered, plasters etc and went on their way. We waited the advised 3 weeks, sanded down the wall as there …

Artex damp wall?
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Can you artex a damp wall

asbestos on valuation report
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im remortgaing and ive had to get a specialist report for utility room querying asbestos in artex. Outcome is its 1% chrystaline and recomends removing it as its badly damaged in some places. All the knobbly bits have previously been removed and its quite smooth. Do I really need to …

Replacing section of very old thin external rendering
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Property is very old 2up/2 down cottage extended each way, so in middle, old rendering on old part dropping off and appears to be only about10 mil thick.the newer sections have more recent rendering I assume to modern standards only the upper part of this section effected and want to …