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I am about to plaster a large loft conversion and I was wondering what advice you could give me. I know from plastering a large ceiling area it has to be done in sections, so am I right in assumimg that this would be the same for the loft conversion? cheers

It sounds as if its the porous wall scenario. It was drying on contact is there anything that can be done to counter this?

the walls were painted, bt in parts it was bare plaster

I completed a job a few days ago and noticed something strange with my mix. When I applied it to the wall it seemed to be drying almost immediately. I applied a pva to the wall prior to applying skim, used clean water etc, basically did everything by the book. The plaster was well in date and I...