Amigos,
Just been to price an outside rendering job, but client also asked me about the following problem which they have on a couple of areas in their dining room and I'm not at all sure what the problem could be. Perhaps some of you have come across this?
Powdery paint and some slightly crumbling plaster which is coming off in patches about 2 ft up the wall (see pics below, sorry they need rotating! No.3 is the fireplace)
The areas are around their patio doorway and also (strangely) around an unused and capped fireplace.
They have had the damp checked out (only 1 of 4 companies consulted said they had damp.....hmmmm) The clients say it doesn't feel damp.
It looks blistered, similar to the outside my house which I always took as being salts leeching out of the old lime mortar (I live in a 1900s mid-terrace which previous owners thought would be a good idea to paint the whole outside of...thanks a lot!
Plasterwork looks fine throughout the house apart from here and they have tried all kinds of paints, treatments etc and each time it has come back same place.
I'd like to re-skim for them but don't want to do it and have their problem come back.
They have paving outside which could be a little high but that wouldn't explain the fireplace area (and paving is still well below dpc)
Any thoughts??
Just been to price an outside rendering job, but client also asked me about the following problem which they have on a couple of areas in their dining room and I'm not at all sure what the problem could be. Perhaps some of you have come across this?
Powdery paint and some slightly crumbling plaster which is coming off in patches about 2 ft up the wall (see pics below, sorry they need rotating! No.3 is the fireplace)
The areas are around their patio doorway and also (strangely) around an unused and capped fireplace.
They have had the damp checked out (only 1 of 4 companies consulted said they had damp.....hmmmm) The clients say it doesn't feel damp.
It looks blistered, similar to the outside my house which I always took as being salts leeching out of the old lime mortar (I live in a 1900s mid-terrace which previous owners thought would be a good idea to paint the whole outside of...thanks a lot!
Plasterwork looks fine throughout the house apart from here and they have tried all kinds of paints, treatments etc and each time it has come back same place.
I'd like to re-skim for them but don't want to do it and have their problem come back.
They have paving outside which could be a little high but that wouldn't explain the fireplace area (and paving is still well below dpc)
Any thoughts??
