Filling large plaster holes

garuff · 4 Sep 2015

Hi

Have stripped wall paper and with it came a lot of plaster in some areas... See photo below!

Looking for any advice on filling the gaps and 'refinishing' the wall for painting... I'm all ears!

stevethespreader · 4 Sep 2015

If the rest of the plaster is sound I would PVA the patches and whole wall then give the patches a skim once its picked up a bit skim the whole wall "buuuuut" looks like the existing plaster needs to come off because you can see its not attached at the edges or at least take it back to where its sound

garuff · 4 Sep 2015

A solid point on the plaster, hadn't got round to finishing chipping off the rest of the loose stuff - bit worried how much more will be coming off!

Any recommendations on products to use? I wasn't sure whether the patching would need a different approach to general skim

Cheers

joe-90 · 4 Sep 2015

You didn't use one of those silly steamers did you?

garuff · 4 Sep 2015

Ahem... Urm... Might have started with one... Until realising the plaster was bad enough without steaming it off the wall too!

stevethespreader · 4 Sep 2015

Just use multi, if that was my wall I would take the steamer to the rest of the wall and take the lot off looks like you have a really good base coat.

garuff · 5 Sep 2015

The base is very sandy, a pleasure to just scrape out for wiring channels! Not sure if that makes it particularly good or not, this type of wall is a bit new on me (1970s lightweight clinker, with this sandy base and naff/old skim - plus two or three layers of horrible wall paper...)

The base coat is also quite deep. I keep wondering if going back to block and boarding over would save me hassle in the long run - my skimming is amateur level at best, "keen to improve" category

joe-90 · 5 Sep 2015

Just board over it as it is.

garuff · 5 Sep 2015

joe-90 said:
Just board over it as it is.

I do keep coming back to this... I think my problem is not knowing how that works around the door frame, window and radiator?! Can't seem to find a good description of how to deal with those bits which makes me a bit wary

stevethespreader · 5 Sep 2015

Show us some PICs of the stuff you want to board round

garuff · 5 Sep 2015

Many pics attached!

stevethespreader · 5 Sep 2015

Take all the architraves off around the door frames, take all the window trims off , but I would not stick it on that loose plaster I would take it off.

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