Removal of wall - dip in ceilng

[simcfc73]

Evening all,

I recently removed a wall in out kitchen which left a hole in the ceiling and walls. When I plasterboarded the gaps I found that there was a obvious dip in the wall and the ceiling so it looks pants.

I came up with a brilliant idea (ok I thought it was) to use a darby to level the ceiling and walls. In my head this worked, when I offered it up dry the level touched both sides of the dip leaving about 300mm to level up. Stick a layer of muck on and use the darby to level it, flatten it and stick another coat on. It didn't work as it pretty much pulled the plaster off to I flatten it and left it to try again. It didn't seem to dry out that quickly when I started.

I managed to get the walls pretty cock on, not with the darby, just by trowelling and the feathering worked well.

I used multifinish btw.

I fancy buying a sppedskim to see if that would get me a better finish.

Or I may just bite the bullet and get a pro in.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[23vc]

you can do as you describe, use bonding to do the levelling out, fairly wet consitency, use Darby/feather edge/speedskim to level. Then skim with multi/board finish