r/Plastering

Hi all,

This is my 6th attempt at plastering - this wall was a cupboard so after that was knocked down I put bonding coat over the brick and skimmed over to match the existing plastering done by an actual plasterer. It's for my sister who didn't realise she wanted to get rid of the cupboard until she's already had a plasterer in for the other walls.

Advice and comments welcome :-)

I have had chases plastered but you could clearly see the sparks white housing through the plaster.

The plasterers have returned and threw a loud of filler on it, demanding the rest of the payment as it’s all “complete”

The filler shows the wall bulge out as it’s added a few mil on - would you pay and is this acceptable? How else could they fix? Isn’t a case of feathering the plaster wider?

Need some advice please. Just had a kitchen ripped out and this is how the walls are now. Can this be patched (professionally) or would it be better to take the whole wall back to brick and start fresh? The plasterer has been scheduled for tomorrow by the kitchen company.

I don't know if this belongs here so please redirect me if there's another place that would be better.

I'm 19 and have never done anything like this. My family built this house and I've lived here my whole life, but I have ALWAYS hated the textured walls. I can appreciate the art of it and definitely see the appeal (especially after scrolling through this subreddit), but it just isn't for me. The ceilings are textured too but that's fine; I don't care about that.

When I started hanging up my own pictures on the walls, I discovered that NOTHING sticks to them because of the texture. I have been putting them in picture frames, but oftentimes that has a "professional" look that doesn't really vibe with the rest of my room. (Yes, I'm aware how ridiculous that sounds.) This past week I gathered up all of the decorations I've yet to hang up due to do a lack of picture frames and I realised how frustrating this is. I'm finally ready to be done with it.

I started asking questions and my family said that the texturing is made with plaster. They told me there's no way to get rid of it and they won't help me try. I have no experience in this type of thing so I've got no clue where to start. How can I get rid of the plaster? Is there a not-super-destructive way to do that? If not, what will I be left with afterwards and how can I fix it? I'm sort of incompetent when it comes to anything handy, so any information will help. (Just...sorry in advance when I ask stupid questions.)

TL;DR: I want to make my walls be flat and smooth and don't know how to do it. I have zero knowledge about plaster and even less knowledge about renovation-like things. Any insight would be super helpful and appreciated!

Hi there,
W/D is on the 4th floor of old brownstone in kitchen and I pulled it out from the wall because I saw a mouse scurry in the kitchen and want to mouse-proof my apartment and found a huge hole in the wall. I want to try and install lath and plaster a new wall corner to begin sealing out mice.

First pic is zoomed in second pic is larger morass.

Should I attempt to plaster and put in lath?
Is it common for lath to just stop halfway through a wall if there's plumbing behind it? There is no stud on the far side of the wall for the lath to be drilled into.
Could the mice family be behind the wall?
If i should go through with this, any advice on my situation? I've never done it b4.

Thank you!

Need advice fixing small scratches/nicks in gyprock plasterboard walls without repainting the whole wall.

The damage has gone through some of the Gyprock Gold Topcoat. Walls were finished with Gyprock Gold Topcoat, then primed with Zinsser Bullseye and painted with 2 coats of Dulux topcoat.

I’m trying to avoid skimming the whole wall or repainting everything. Can these spots be repaired/blended locally? What products/process would you recommend to make the patches disappear as much as possible?

I had a skim coat done almost 4 weeks ago, there are still patches that look darker than others. Does this mean it's still wet?

The plaster is coming down from this wall. The wall feels almost like cement. Is this normal plaster? Where do I go from here to repair?

My painter self wants to just pull it off, prime, build up with hot mud, finish and prime and paint but maybe I'd be better off to try my hand with proper plastering.

Thanks!

Taking down blown plaster on a solid external stone wall (first floor) and found what looks like an old window, next to the existing window. I’m not sure how to redo this as there’s a real mixture of things going on in this 1850s cottage.

On the external side it’s rendered and painted white. Internally it’s lime underneath with a couple of layers of gypsum on top around the window, with a rock solid sand and cement finish within the window and gypsum on top.

I’m tempted to lime the exposed stone and gypsum skim the whole lot. Know that defeats the objective of using lime, but the rest of the wall is a mix anyway. Plasterer has suggested just battening and boarding over the top which I know may cause moisture problems but doesn’t seem like I can go all the way back to lime anyway due to the cemented window.

What would you do?

Bought our first house back in December. 1969 ranch in the midatlantic USA. The entire house seems to be plaster over I'm guessing gypsum board (edit: The house is timber frame, there's no brick). The plaster is heavily textured with swirl patterns.

There are a lot of holes throughout from old picture hooks, some quite deep. See pictures - that's a USA quarter for reference.

I've never lived in a house with plaster before, so this is all new to me. Obviously filling in the holes is the main objective, but you also want it to match the adjacent texture so it disappears after painting. Do I have any hope of accomplishing this with this swirl pattern on everything? Pointers / tutorials / pulling expectations back? Not sure where to start.

I'm stripping this wall of paint bc the old paint started peeling. The paint stripped off really easily. Once I got a paint scraper under the surface it started peeling off in sheets. The plaster has these shiny spots. The bright white surfaces are clean, the darker spots are very smooth and reflect light. I'm concerned this is why the paint peeled off so easily. Why are there shiny spots and do I need to sand it down to pure plaster in order to paint?

Got a ceiling to do for my FIL. Wondering what I can use that may be similar to GB board or multi finish.
Seen these in a local merchant, they any good?
Thanks in advance!

Hi,

We're renovating our 1930's house and we're removing wallpaper and about to get some plasterers in but we are unsure of what exactly we need.

The plaster is OK, contains some kind of hairs or fibres but is rough and needs skimming before paint.

The house has a cavity wall filled with insulation, so we're slightly wary about breathability and moisture.

- Is this plaster likely to be lime or breathable?

- Can we just skim this with regular plaster or do we need to ask for something specific?

Had some plasterers out already and one said its probably lime and one said its not. Both said it would be fine to skim with regular plaster.

Thanks for your!

Hello all,

Recently bought a 1950's council house, and am tearing it apart. The bathroom is one of my main focuses to begin with, and on removing a lot of tile, this is the plaster that was behind it. It's pretty much intact still, although quite rough, would you guys recommend taking it back to brick and replastering, or just skimming over the top?

Cheers