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I currently have some plasterboard which has some of the ivory paper pulled off (not all over it, just some strips in places). Will this cause any issue when it is skimmed.

It's floorboards with about a 12"-18"space under the floor. Ground floor.

I am the plasterer:p

Skirting is about 4" deep

Currently replastering (floating) the bottom 6" of a wall to match the existing floated wall. I believe a gap should be left between the plaster and floor so that any damp or spillages are not soaked up by the plaster. What size gap should I leave between the bottom of the plaster and the...

Because I wanted to leave enough room for a skim coat, but did not get it quite right, as I am not skimming the whole wall it has to be level with the rest of the wall.

Thanks I assume a 4mm finishing coat would not be a good idea and would not bond well to the bonding coat ?

Can you put another thin (3mm) bonding coat on top of a thick (8mm) bonding coat ? Will it fastern ok if I pva it ?

Yea but can you imagine how much polyfiller it would take :-) Do I just dampen the bonding coat with water ? Or pva?

I was not intending to skim the whole wall (it's quite large). This is more of a patch repair. Are you suggesting just dampen the bonding coat with a spray of water, and not pva ?

The bonding coat is recessed by about 2mm , to allow for the finishing coat. So do I put pva on it and at what strength ? It's touch dry but will have only been on the wall for about 16 hrs

So do I put pva on it and at what strength ? It's touch dry but will have only been on the wall for about 16 hrs

It's about 10mm thick ? What to you call totally dry ? Whilst it's dry to touch, I guess it will take a week or so to dry out ?

30 inches by 18 inches

Ok, I have but on the bonding coat, about 3pm, it has firmed up but no doubt will take a while to dry out. Now I am going to put the finish on tomorrow about 10am. I assume that I need to pva it (even though it won't have totally dried out) ? Do I put one or two,coats of pva on it ? What...