Hello there,
I am new here... really a woodworker, but have done many odd remodeling jobs over the years.
Now I am in a 110 year old French "maison" trying to figure out what to do with the walls of a bedroom.
Some ugly wallpaper (from the last remodel job, ca. 10 years ago) started to come off, so I removed it all. But there was a bunch of glue still on the wall, so I ended up sanding off every little bit of wall in the room... with some 100 grid sandpaper on an orbital sander. The old plaster is very solid, there are very few cracks, no hollow sounding bits.
I could attempt to just paint over everything, but the original moldings around doors and windows are sticking out a bit (but not loose), there is a clear gap. My thinking was that 3-5 mm of new new gypsum plaster would solve this... make it a colored plaster and I won't even have to paint.
But reading here and elsewhere on the 'net I have the feeling that it ain't as easy as I thought it was... the least thing I should do is use a primer over the existing plaster, before I attempt to put any new plaster up.
Others say to remove all old plaster, or else I'll be asking for trouble...
I am not quite sure what would be best in my situation... any suggestions are appreciated!
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I am new here... really a woodworker, but have done many odd remodeling jobs over the years.
Now I am in a 110 year old French "maison" trying to figure out what to do with the walls of a bedroom.
Some ugly wallpaper (from the last remodel job, ca. 10 years ago) started to come off, so I removed it all. But there was a bunch of glue still on the wall, so I ended up sanding off every little bit of wall in the room... with some 100 grid sandpaper on an orbital sander. The old plaster is very solid, there are very few cracks, no hollow sounding bits.
I could attempt to just paint over everything, but the original moldings around doors and windows are sticking out a bit (but not loose), there is a clear gap. My thinking was that 3-5 mm of new new gypsum plaster would solve this... make it a colored plaster and I won't even have to paint.
But reading here and elsewhere on the 'net I have the feeling that it ain't as easy as I thought it was... the least thing I should do is use a primer over the existing plaster, before I attempt to put any new plaster up.
Others say to remove all old plaster, or else I'll be asking for trouble...
I am not quite sure what would be best in my situation... any suggestions are appreciated!
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