Recent content by wastedenergyuk

Ok mate, i'll go with the 2 coats. I could do with the practice anyway especially for the speed and getting the consistency of my mix right, I think my first coat had gone off in patches whilst I was putting on the second coat. But I guess thats the joys of learning how to plaster.

I ask because I plan on having another go at it tomorrow, plan being the key word there. And I'm not out drinkng because I have an extremely short supply of babysitters. and I'm watching the darts.

I've just finished re-skmming my first wall and it didn't turn out quite as well as I was hoping. I'm not too disheartend by it not being brilliant because it was first time and I was reletively slow doing it, I know next time I need to be quicker. What I want to know is, do I pva over what i've...

Thanks for prompt replies, I can see I'll be using these forums alot in coming weeks.

can i plaster onto the pva if its dry? I'm new to plastering and I dont think i'd have time to pva the wall then mix the plaster before the pva dries.

literally 20 minutes if that.

I'm about to have a go at skimming my spare room and have applied a couple of coats of pva to 1 wall where i'm going to start. Is it normal for the pva to soak straight in leaving the wall looking like it's had nothing put on it in the first place?