Hello Plasterers Forum
Was doing a bit of googling to try and find some answers and stumbled across this site so thought I ask the experts.
My house was built in the 1920s/30s (cavity walls) and I want to start getting some rooms skimmed. I've had 2 plasterers out to look at it and got 2 different opinions. First one was happy to crack on and skim over existing painted walls with multifinish and the 2nd one seemed to suggest you shouldn't use multifinish because there is likely to be lime in the existing plaster. My previous 1930s house was skimmed throughout with multifinish with no mention of the lime thing .
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Tom
Was doing a bit of googling to try and find some answers and stumbled across this site so thought I ask the experts.
My house was built in the 1920s/30s (cavity walls) and I want to start getting some rooms skimmed. I've had 2 plasterers out to look at it and got 2 different opinions. First one was happy to crack on and skim over existing painted walls with multifinish and the 2nd one seemed to suggest you shouldn't use multifinish because there is likely to be lime in the existing plaster. My previous 1930s house was skimmed throughout with multifinish with no mention of the lime thing .
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Tom