Hi,
I've found this site really useful over the past few weeks as we are in the process of renovating a Victorian terrace and hopefully someone can share their thoughts on a couple of things...
1. Our builders have plastered various walls and have used finish plaster, but have now gone on to coat the entire surface in Gyproc Easyfill! I thought it was purely for filling? Can someone confirm either way please? Also, if it isn't meant to be used like this does anyone know if it will be fine to paint straight onto it or would we need to line the walls?
2. We removed the chimney breasts throughout the property and needed to get the gaps where the flues were filled in. Same builders rendered but not as they were instructed by a relative who used to be in the trade, i.e. threw clumps at the wall (looked like cowpats) rather than building up in layers with a bonding agent, and now these areas have been plastered (and fully Easyfilled!) cracks are forming outlining where the breasts used to be and all over that area. We're not happy but they are saying you would always expect this with render below. Is that true? We're not talking very fine hairline cracks here either!! If it's normal it'll save them an earbashing...
Any comments would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks for making it to the end of the waffle!
I've found this site really useful over the past few weeks as we are in the process of renovating a Victorian terrace and hopefully someone can share their thoughts on a couple of things...
1. Our builders have plastered various walls and have used finish plaster, but have now gone on to coat the entire surface in Gyproc Easyfill! I thought it was purely for filling? Can someone confirm either way please? Also, if it isn't meant to be used like this does anyone know if it will be fine to paint straight onto it or would we need to line the walls?
2. We removed the chimney breasts throughout the property and needed to get the gaps where the flues were filled in. Same builders rendered but not as they were instructed by a relative who used to be in the trade, i.e. threw clumps at the wall (looked like cowpats) rather than building up in layers with a bonding agent, and now these areas have been plastered (and fully Easyfilled!) cracks are forming outlining where the breasts used to be and all over that area. We're not happy but they are saying you would always expect this with render below. Is that true? We're not talking very fine hairline cracks here either!! If it's normal it'll save them an earbashing...
Any comments would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks for making it to the end of the waffle!