Painted over plaster skim. Not a great finish

[maxm007]

Hi,

I've had my artex ceiling skimmed. I've never had that done, so I didn't really know whether the plasterer had done a very good job or not. It looked allright. Few marks that looked sandable. I then mist coated it with thinned out paint. A lot more imperfections appeared. I sanded any visible protrusions. Filling in every recess seemed like a very very long job. I thought maybe after 2 coats of emulsion it would look a bit better.

So I've got one mist coat, 2 coats of emulsion and I think it doesn't look great. I would like a really smooth finish, but when the spot lights are off, the ceiling is visibly imperfect and cloudy. I've attached some pictures.

What are my options if I wanted smoother aside from replastering? Should I :
* Keep adding emulsion coats , it will reduce the cloudiness
* Use some sort of polyfill basecoat and apply 2 coats with emulsiom
* Use lining paper and recoat with paint until good finish. Will lining paper hide imperfections well

Anything else I can do?

Untitled

• maxm007
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

Untitled

• maxm007
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

Untitled

• maxm007
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

Untitled

• maxm007
• 7 Oct 2012
• 1

 

[dcdec]

Thats **** poor plastering.

Lining will be better than it looks now if its done properly but getting a decent plasterer to skim it again would be best, doubt you'll be able to get anything out the original guy

 

[maxm007]

Thanks for the reply.

I think I will go for lining and see how it looks.

The guy was pretty messy as well. Assuming I would go for a good plasterer, would he be able to protect my painted walls and furniture, or is plastering just inherently very messy.

 

[dcdec]

A good plasterer wont be messy

 

[maxm007]

OK, we will finish everything else and have the living room and master bedroom reskimmed next time we're out of town for a few days.