On the hottest day of the year I decided to make my DIY return to plastering. It was a newly overboarded ceiling in a hot house with poor insulation in the roof.
After a bit of a delay I started at 11am, temperatures already rising. As I was starting I must have spilt a few litres of water out of my bucket which ended up with my wife telling me we had a water leak and the mains needed to go off. So I lost a few minutes isolating the water and dealing with that. All in all a terrible start.
I throw the first coat up, all is going well but plaster is stiffening quick and going off before I can make it round the room. I continued at speed thinking all would be fine. I make my second mix and as soon as I go for coat two it is clear the water is being sucked straight out of the plaster. I ditch the effort realising this is futile. I re-wet some of the plaster and try to smooth out roughness of the 1st coat, thinking I might just have to see what I can salvage with a 1 coat finish.
I left the house after clearing up and returned a few hours later to find extensive crazing.
Ultimately this was a series of s**t decisions but I guess the upside is I learnt a lot in the process.
My thought now is whack on a good layer of bond-it pre grit and skim with a single layer. If that doesn’t work, ripping down the boards and starting from scratch will be necessary. But for the price of a bag of multi finish I may as well try to fix with a skim and see where I end up.
Any help would be appreciated.
After a bit of a delay I started at 11am, temperatures already rising. As I was starting I must have spilt a few litres of water out of my bucket which ended up with my wife telling me we had a water leak and the mains needed to go off. So I lost a few minutes isolating the water and dealing with that. All in all a terrible start.
I throw the first coat up, all is going well but plaster is stiffening quick and going off before I can make it round the room. I continued at speed thinking all would be fine. I make my second mix and as soon as I go for coat two it is clear the water is being sucked straight out of the plaster. I ditch the effort realising this is futile. I re-wet some of the plaster and try to smooth out roughness of the 1st coat, thinking I might just have to see what I can salvage with a 1 coat finish.
I left the house after clearing up and returned a few hours later to find extensive crazing.
Ultimately this was a series of s**t decisions but I guess the upside is I learnt a lot in the process.
My thought now is whack on a good layer of bond-it pre grit and skim with a single layer. If that doesn’t work, ripping down the boards and starting from scratch will be necessary. But for the price of a bag of multi finish I may as well try to fix with a skim and see where I end up.
Any help would be appreciated.
All jokes aside as a fellow DIY plasterer it's so hard. I'm not touching any plastering in this heat.