Finishing a new wall or room with plaster or joint compound takes practice. If you have no experience with plaster or its near relative, joint compound, don’t learn in your living room. Experiment ...

Walking into the meditation room at the Academy for the Love of Learning a few years ago was a memorable experience. There was no one around, and there was a freshly applied coat of plaster inside the ...

Imagine unsightly damp patches marring the look of your otherwise beautifully done up house. Does the idea fill you with either disgust or dread? Both reactions would be quite understandable. In fact, ...

I am in charge of an old parish house called Millbank in Trillick, Co Tyrone. It has been unoccupied for some time but kept heated. The external plaster has extensive cracking and flaking paint. It ...