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    Plasterer didn't skim walls!!!

    I think it's 2.9 wide x 2.6/7ish high. Has a window in it too. Just a big strip of bonding up the middle around 3/4 of the way up. The bonding is perfectly flush with the rest of the wall, if I put a skim on it would either stick out or I'd have to skim the whole wall. I'm not bothered if the...
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    Plasterer didn't skim walls!!!

    In that case I'm happy just to paper straight onto it. Most the plaster on the wall is at least 80 years old and has accumulated lots of gouges and nicks over the years, it would be want the whole wall knocking out and replastered if it was to have anything but wallpaper on. When the time comes...
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    Plasterer didn't skim walls!!!

    It's quite a big patch... 6' high by 18"/24" or so wide. I take it the wallpaper won't adhere to the bonding plaster then regardless of what I put on it?
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    Rising damp on internal wall, concrete floor

    I just had to have a lot more than that done as a condition of my mortgage on a house I just bought. £985 it cost for a PCA registered company to do everything bar remove and refit the skirting with the guarantee the lender wanted. I was very sceptical until a load of plaster came off with a...
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    Plasterer didn't skim walls!!!

    Hi. I had a couple of patches of blown plaster in an old wall I needed redoing. I was on the verge of trying to tackle this myself before a guy decided he could do it. When I saw the finished job it was just pure bonding plaster filling the entire hole back to brick, now nicely level with all...
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