Hi
Some advice please.
I have just finished pulling out all my old kitchen units and pulling a ropey old ceiling down and taking about 60% of the plaster off the walls in the room, which was in bad condition. (its quite a big old room too)
Now, I know I need to get the kitchen fully replumbed and re-wired (It's in a shocking state at the moment, almost literally!). I will obviously need a new ceiling and plastering of the walls done etc. Then I can get someone in to fit the new kitchen.
My question is this...
Can anyone tell me what order I should do this in? I was thinking of getting the sparky in first and then the plumber. Lastly the plasterer before finally getting the new kitchen fitted in. Is this the right order???
Also... Will I need to knock off ALL the plaster on the walls? The remaining is stuck fast to the wall and is obviously newer plaster than the rest (I suspect some sort of decent previous replastering effort on parts of two walls). I know this will be a living nightmare to remove. I have chased it back to nice straight lines down the walls, so its not all higgledy piggledy patchy plaster remaining. We are talking half a walls worth here and a third of a walls worth there - that sort of thing.
I am hoping that a good plasterer can skim over the entire wall to the same depth without me needing to take ALL the paster off the walls first. Is that possible? I don't really want the hassle of putting up plasterboard on the walls first and I just hope that new plaster can be put directly on the brickwork and skimmed over the remaining sound plaster.
Please help. I am confused and am not afraid to admit to being a bit stuck at the moment!
Some advice please.
I have just finished pulling out all my old kitchen units and pulling a ropey old ceiling down and taking about 60% of the plaster off the walls in the room, which was in bad condition. (its quite a big old room too)
Now, I know I need to get the kitchen fully replumbed and re-wired (It's in a shocking state at the moment, almost literally!). I will obviously need a new ceiling and plastering of the walls done etc. Then I can get someone in to fit the new kitchen.
My question is this...
Can anyone tell me what order I should do this in? I was thinking of getting the sparky in first and then the plumber. Lastly the plasterer before finally getting the new kitchen fitted in. Is this the right order???
Also... Will I need to knock off ALL the plaster on the walls? The remaining is stuck fast to the wall and is obviously newer plaster than the rest (I suspect some sort of decent previous replastering effort on parts of two walls). I know this will be a living nightmare to remove. I have chased it back to nice straight lines down the walls, so its not all higgledy piggledy patchy plaster remaining. We are talking half a walls worth here and a third of a walls worth there - that sort of thing.
I am hoping that a good plasterer can skim over the entire wall to the same depth without me needing to take ALL the paster off the walls first. Is that possible? I don't really want the hassle of putting up plasterboard on the walls first and I just hope that new plaster can be put directly on the brickwork and skimmed over the remaining sound plaster.
Please help. I am confused and am not afraid to admit to being a bit stuck at the moment!