Recent content by ecartmon

Thanks to you all for the replies - the majority is blown so I'll take it all off and dry line. Much appreciated! Andy

Thanks for the replies so far guys. I might try and salvage where I can. @lucius - this plaster pretty much falls off with very little encouragement. In fact I've been putting holes in then blocks for socket boxes which requires a decent few blows with a hammer. The plaster is long gone by that...

Yes we did. Is that going to exacerbate the problem? The plaster upstairs still has cracks and areas where it just comes away from the wall but it's certainly not as bad and we didn't use a steam stripper.

Hi guys, I've searched (not extensively) on this forum so hope I'm not repeating old questions but... I've recently moved into a semi-detached house built in 1956. The entire house had wallpaper up and on removal I found that the plaster underneath had plenty of 'spidering' cracks in it. By...