What is the best option for making good thus cieling?
We're eight months in to owning a 1905 Edwardian house and trying to get one of the two main rooms redecorated.
Having removed the lining and textured paper, the decorator says it needs repair rather than repapering and the plasterer who was filling electricans chases at the time suggests some small sections are coming away and need removing, which he proposes to fill with bonding before taping the cracks and skimming the lot.
Three men, one day, £700 or £600 cash.
For the brick walls he used Limelite lime and cement Renovating Plaster for filling in the chases, for the lath and plaster stud walls just normal Thistle MultiFinish.
Due to the age of the building and cornice work I would like to be as sympathetic as practical.
However we are also living in the house, so there is obviously a time limit to getting it less like a building site!
Photos of the room attached.
Daniel
We're eight months in to owning a 1905 Edwardian house and trying to get one of the two main rooms redecorated.
Having removed the lining and textured paper, the decorator says it needs repair rather than repapering and the plasterer who was filling electricans chases at the time suggests some small sections are coming away and need removing, which he proposes to fill with bonding before taping the cracks and skimming the lot.
Three men, one day, £700 or £600 cash.
For the brick walls he used Limelite lime and cement Renovating Plaster for filling in the chases, for the lath and plaster stud walls just normal Thistle MultiFinish.
Due to the age of the building and cornice work I would like to be as sympathetic as practical.
However we are also living in the house, so there is obviously a time limit to getting it less like a building site!
Photos of the room attached.
Daniel
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