Evening all. Circumstance brings me to hopefully learn from your good selves.
Had some walls skimmed earlier in the year. Old Victorian house, walls in question covered in Artex. Plasterers primed with PVA and skimmed with Multi Finish. F/fwd a few months and plaster has come away on a good 2/3 of that section of wall as in clean away.
Don’t want them back, that room had long vertical cracks, bubbles and finish was just dire from the off. Odd as rest of the work including 2 tricky ceilings was spot on.
Figured I’d have a go myself as a fairly small run of wall. Prepped with Blue Grit and used Multi Finish. Got a fairly good finish considering my first go if I do say so myself. Struggled to blend seamlessly into the old new plaster but will just sand it down and make it as good as I can.
I’d not really looked into kit properly but did buy a 14” Refina Plaziflex. Bit annoyed with myself as I’ve put a fair few scrapes into the plastic blade going onto the Blue Grit. I know Rookie error and all that. Having read a bit around things seems I’m best using that for my dry trowel so need to get me a standard trowel and maybe a medium flex trowel. Found the Plaziflex quite nice to use but it’s clearly not for applying and flattening!
Can only get better with more practice and fortunately the house has plenty to offer me so yeah that’s me. I’ll be checking the site out trying to pick up tips and tricks as I go.
Cheers
Had some walls skimmed earlier in the year. Old Victorian house, walls in question covered in Artex. Plasterers primed with PVA and skimmed with Multi Finish. F/fwd a few months and plaster has come away on a good 2/3 of that section of wall as in clean away.
Don’t want them back, that room had long vertical cracks, bubbles and finish was just dire from the off. Odd as rest of the work including 2 tricky ceilings was spot on.
Figured I’d have a go myself as a fairly small run of wall. Prepped with Blue Grit and used Multi Finish. Got a fairly good finish considering my first go if I do say so myself. Struggled to blend seamlessly into the old new plaster but will just sand it down and make it as good as I can.
I’d not really looked into kit properly but did buy a 14” Refina Plaziflex. Bit annoyed with myself as I’ve put a fair few scrapes into the plastic blade going onto the Blue Grit. I know Rookie error and all that. Having read a bit around things seems I’m best using that for my dry trowel so need to get me a standard trowel and maybe a medium flex trowel. Found the Plaziflex quite nice to use but it’s clearly not for applying and flattening!
Can only get better with more practice and fortunately the house has plenty to offer me so yeah that’s me. I’ll be checking the site out trying to pick up tips and tricks as I go.
Cheers
