Skimming walls

[fartknocker]

Hi all,

Getting round to deciding what to do with the walls now that the dreaded lining paper is off. The walls are gouged and have been abused by someone who had a heavy picture fetish!! Seems like instead of normal picture hooks they decided to use rawplugs!!

I'm thinking of getting the entire house skimmed but would this mean I would have to remove the coving, skirting and architraves?? Or can it be done without? Coving is normal B&Q coving and skirting/architrave is the rounded over type.

Thanks

FK

 

[RKB]

Nice name

You can get the rawlplugs out if you screw in a say a 2" screw just over fingure tight, and then use a pair of pincers to draw the plug out. It will leave a hole, but these can be filled with a normal filler.
If however you are having the rest of the house skimmed, maybe that's the way to go. Reskimming involves two coats of 2mm plaster, and any proficient plasterer could redo the walls retaing your joinery and coving.
If it was my call, I'd go for the reskim....
Hope that helps.

 

[Thermo]

Alternativley push the plugs in further and then fill the, as it is likely to cause less damage then pulling them out if tour existing plaster is dodgy.

 

[legs-akimbo]

Just to be finicky its a three mill skim.....Hey thats a whole full millimetre here!!