V upset, cracked the plaster
Hi,
Hope all is well
My weekends are generally uplifting with all the diy I do
Today was one bad day
Waa trying to drill hooks for the curtain rods.Bought a bosch drill hammer and some hooks from amazon. Seen a couple of you tube videos and decided to crack on
Drilled through plaster and then inserted the plug.After which I put the screw in and gave it a buZZ from the drill. Boom, a big chunk of plaster fell off, v upset
Don’t know if this was my poor drilling or something wrong with the plaster
Will now go back to the builder
No more drilling for me, will leave it to the int decorator
upset,hope it’s not something more sinister
Mel
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last yearI tried to look through my pics and see what was done on this room wrt plaster
Usually,for the ground floor
they used those grey ? plasterboards ,then plastered them and then painted
Don’t think it was done in these rooms
Mel
Builder’s quote mentioned
Due to the amount of damaged caused by the chasing for the electrics and heating pipes we recommend that these are filled with bonding compound and then all walls to the bedrooms, bathroom, landing, stairs, lounge, kitchen/sitting room, utility are unibond and skimmed with new beading where required.Labour and material £4200.00
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