How to use your skin patches
Skin patches are thin pads with an adhesive back that are applied to the skin rather like a plaster. Patches contain a reservoir or matrix of medicine that passes slowly from the patch through the skin and into the bloodstream. Patches may be ... [... more]
Net Doctor |
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I was just about to start my first teaching job. I went for a run and did about five miles. The next day my knee swelled up. Both the doctor and I thought IâEURd pulled something. He put it in plaster. When the plaster came off it hadnâEURt [... more]
Male Health |
Plastering a Wall
Chris Frediani's guide to plastering a wall for the first time. Half fill a clean bucket with clean, cold water. Add the plaster slowly, mixing all the time, until you reach a double cream consistency with no lumps. Scrape round the edges of the ... [... more]
BBC |
Painting
Jake from Big Strong Boys offers some painting advice for those wanting to brighten up their walls. Before you start painting, make sure the walls are as smooth as possible. If you are painting straight onto plaster, the walls need to be sanded ... [... more]
BBC |
Sub Base Calculator
Useful online building material calculators - quantity, volume, area and cost for plaster, render, stucco, stud, cement, sand, bricks, mortar etc. Area & Distance Conversion Calculators - if you require a conversion for metres, yards, feet & ... [... more]
Hints and Things |
Russell Horton
Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all ... [... more]
Random House |
Cornices and Coving - general
Cornices and coving - there's a range of materials used for cornices and coving (plaster, gypsum, expanded polystyrene, polyurethane and timber), here we explain the different types, their advantages and disadvantages - also details of the ... [... more]
DIY Data |
Putting up coving
Putting up coving and cornice - guide to putting up plaster, gypsum, expanded polystyrene, polyurethane and timber coving and cornice. There's no real 'correct' place in a room to start putting up a coving, if possible, start with a simple corner ... [... more]
DIY Data |
easyfit coving
Easyfit coving is an innovative form of uPVC coving offering a quick and easy alternative to traditional plaster and modern polystyrene coving. The coving which comes in long lengths (2.5 or 5 metres) and which fits into the base plate. The ... [... more]
DIY Data |
Cladding with plasterboard
Plaster board cladding for stud partition - once the frame is up, the next job is to fit the plaster board. This page tells you how. The plasterboard should be cut 13mm (1/2 inch) shorter than the floor to ceiling height, taking account of any ... [... more]
DIY Data |
Coving - preparation walls and ceilings
Preparing walls and ceilings for putting up coving and cornice - guide to preparing for putting up plaster, gypsum, expanded polystyrene, polyurethane and timber coving and cornice. Always read any manufacturers instructions supplied with the ... [... more]
DIY Data |
Traction
Traction just means steady pulling. It is used in medicine to straighten and align broken bones that are too difficult to align with a plaster cast. Fractures of the shaft of the thighbone (femur), for instance, are commonly treated by traction. ... [... more]
NHS Direct |
