Hi all, first post.
Have done a small bit of plastering already (in my own house) with reasonable results, but am getting braver....
Walls throughout the house are drylined/taped - in most cases poorly during the original renovation. Since we've bought it, and as I'm renovating room by room, I'd like to skim the walls, starting with the smaller rooms.
First Q, where walls have been drylined/mesh taped/easifilled and then emulsioned, is it ok to skim on top of the emulsion/easifill - I'm assuming so, but didn't want any disasters. (Presumably would need to PVA first)
Second Q. This is in an old converted church. The upstairs windows are the top half of the original stained glass windows. The walls are thick - around 600mm, and there is deep arched top reveal in each window. The radius of the arch next to the stained glass is smaller than the radius on the inner wall (ie it flares outward into the room). I'm lining the arched reveal with wedge shaped pieces of celotex, and that will covered with pieces of plasterboard - I need to make this threepenny bit shaped arch into a curve with plaster. I'm presuming I'd use bonding plaster to rough form the curve, and then skim using multifinish? Or.... I could score the back of my plasterboard every couple of inches and form a crude curve that way (and stick in place with foam). Given the arched reveal is quite complex, I'm hoping for some alternate ideas or suggestions on how best to approach it. When it was originally renovated, the arched reveals were formed with hardboard over celotex wedges, but the result was a bit naff, hence me wanting to redo with plasterboard and plaster. Any other ideas? Sorry I've not got a pic handy, but hopefully you'll figure what I'm on about!
Thanks for any pointers or suggestions,
Simon
Have done a small bit of plastering already (in my own house) with reasonable results, but am getting braver....
Walls throughout the house are drylined/taped - in most cases poorly during the original renovation. Since we've bought it, and as I'm renovating room by room, I'd like to skim the walls, starting with the smaller rooms.
First Q, where walls have been drylined/mesh taped/easifilled and then emulsioned, is it ok to skim on top of the emulsion/easifill - I'm assuming so, but didn't want any disasters. (Presumably would need to PVA first)
Second Q. This is in an old converted church. The upstairs windows are the top half of the original stained glass windows. The walls are thick - around 600mm, and there is deep arched top reveal in each window. The radius of the arch next to the stained glass is smaller than the radius on the inner wall (ie it flares outward into the room). I'm lining the arched reveal with wedge shaped pieces of celotex, and that will covered with pieces of plasterboard - I need to make this threepenny bit shaped arch into a curve with plaster. I'm presuming I'd use bonding plaster to rough form the curve, and then skim using multifinish? Or.... I could score the back of my plasterboard every couple of inches and form a crude curve that way (and stick in place with foam). Given the arched reveal is quite complex, I'm hoping for some alternate ideas or suggestions on how best to approach it. When it was originally renovated, the arched reveals were formed with hardboard over celotex wedges, but the result was a bit naff, hence me wanting to redo with plasterboard and plaster. Any other ideas? Sorry I've not got a pic handy, but hopefully you'll figure what I'm on about!
Thanks for any pointers or suggestions,
Simon