We a number of rooms including our spare room brilliantly plastered by some great plasterers, but then had a leak and had to cut through the pitched ceiling to fix it. As they are a distance away, getting them back for a relatively small repair is really not practical, so I may be mad, but am going to attempt it myself.
I'm fairly practical and building etc is fine, but never really succeeded in plastering so looking for a bit of advice.
The pictures below show the patch ready for repair. I will Scrim the joints then PVA the pitched ceiling and leave to dry. After that I'm not sure if I should plaster the patch level with the rest of the ceiling (max 2mm but mostly less than 1mm) and leave to dry before skimming the whole area, or just go straight to the skim.
I was intending to put on just one skim coat as the ceiling has already been skimmed.
So how mad am I to do this as the first plastering and should I approach it differently
I'm fairly practical and building etc is fine, but never really succeeded in plastering so looking for a bit of advice.
The pictures below show the patch ready for repair. I will Scrim the joints then PVA the pitched ceiling and leave to dry. After that I'm not sure if I should plaster the patch level with the rest of the ceiling (max 2mm but mostly less than 1mm) and leave to dry before skimming the whole area, or just go straight to the skim.
I was intending to put on just one skim coat as the ceiling has already been skimmed.
So how mad am I to do this as the first plastering and should I approach it differently