Hi
Currently doing up an old Victoria terrace house and in the upstairs bedroom there are some large cracks in the skimmed wall which have previously been filled but you can hear the plaster is blown. In the middle of the wall there used to be a chimney breast and the cracks are running down the edges of where it used to be. It seems that either side of the chimney breast the old lime and horsehair plaster has been left and where the breast was sand and cement has been used with a skim across the whole wall.
In the picture the sand and cement behind the skim is on the right hand side of the picture.
Should I:
1. Leave the wall as it is and just dot and dab plasterboard straight over it
2. Remove all the lime plaster then put fresh plaster to get it to the same level as the sand and cement
3. Remove everything back to brick
4. Or something else
Thanks in advance.
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Currently doing up an old Victoria terrace house and in the upstairs bedroom there are some large cracks in the skimmed wall which have previously been filled but you can hear the plaster is blown. In the middle of the wall there used to be a chimney breast and the cracks are running down the edges of where it used to be. It seems that either side of the chimney breast the old lime and horsehair plaster has been left and where the breast was sand and cement has been used with a skim across the whole wall.
In the picture the sand and cement behind the skim is on the right hand side of the picture.
Should I:
1. Leave the wall as it is and just dot and dab plasterboard straight over it
2. Remove all the lime plaster then put fresh plaster to get it to the same level as the sand and cement
3. Remove everything back to brick
4. Or something else
Thanks in advance.
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