Hi there,
My detached, 3 bed house was built in 1970 and we are looking to totally modernise it a room at a time. The first room we are set to tackle is my sons bedroom which has large areas of badly blown plaster particularly on one internal wall.
We have a plasterer booked in to skim the walls and ceiling in a couple of weeks time but last night I decided to open up the worst section of blown plaster to see how big it was and what things were like underneath.
Large areas of plaster just fell away with very little persuasion but what bothered me was the "mortar" (that's probably not the right word) underneath. It was incredibly sandy and just fell away when I scratched it with my thumb.
It's an internal wall on the second floor so I don't think it's a damp problem.
My question is, how far back will it need to be stripped before it is safe to replaster, and would it be safest to do the whole room in this way? The worst bit is confined to one wall but there are smaller bits of plaster that sound live dotted around the room and I want to make sure they are all found and fixed.
Is it more of a brickie job than a plasterer's stripping back the underlying mortar?
I can post a pic if that helps?
Cheers,
Andy.T
My detached, 3 bed house was built in 1970 and we are looking to totally modernise it a room at a time. The first room we are set to tackle is my sons bedroom which has large areas of badly blown plaster particularly on one internal wall.
We have a plasterer booked in to skim the walls and ceiling in a couple of weeks time but last night I decided to open up the worst section of blown plaster to see how big it was and what things were like underneath.
Large areas of plaster just fell away with very little persuasion but what bothered me was the "mortar" (that's probably not the right word) underneath. It was incredibly sandy and just fell away when I scratched it with my thumb.
It's an internal wall on the second floor so I don't think it's a damp problem.
My question is, how far back will it need to be stripped before it is safe to replaster, and would it be safest to do the whole room in this way? The worst bit is confined to one wall but there are smaller bits of plaster that sound live dotted around the room and I want to make sure they are all found and fixed.
Is it more of a brickie job than a plasterer's stripping back the underlying mortar?
I can post a pic if that helps?
Cheers,
Andy.T