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Thank you for all of your responses and advice. If the cause of the penetrating damp is fixed (externally), will this not allow the plaster to dry, instead of hacking off all of the plaster? Why should plasterboard never be used? Is that due to having solid walls? Or does it always have the...

Thank you for your response, as far as I'm aware the plasterer used plasterboard followed by a much thicker layer of plasterer in that area due to the previous plaster crumbling on that wall. I don't have cavity walls as it's a victorian property.

Hello, I had some plastering done last August, there was one section of the room where the previous plaster was crumbling off the walls, so that wall had much more plaster used to full it, so has taken much longer to dry. It is now 7 months later and the plaster still hasn't dried (see first...