Hello from a new poster,
I have a guy in plastering my whole house and he isn't doing a bad job, it just isn't what I was expecting. Can anyone help me understand if I am being too picky and getting a great job or if this guys is rushing perhaps because he is on a price. I don't want to insult his work un-necessarily or get done over by someone taking advantage.
When you walk into the rooms they initially look good. There is a little crazed cracking in one room he says he will fix but there is nothing else visible from a couple of meters other than some walls are more mottled in colour than others, the darker colours feeling courser, but nothing that would show after even a light sand.
What worries me is that when you run your hand along the wall you can feel them waving in and out. Place a straight edge against the wall and you can see it as well, (over any 1.5m you will see the walls touch about 4 times and the three hollows will be perhaps 3 mm). Most walls will have places where the straight edge rocks what I would call significantly, (the protrusion perhaps 1/2 cm), you can usually tell what he was struggling with as it will be a transition between old and new build or getting over a conduit for wire. I must stress, in the most part, you can't see any of this without a straight edge. Each room will have two or three small areas that you can see and are clearly going to need significant sanding or filling. An unexplained ridge or dip, perhaps near some complex transition. Ironically these bits look the easiest to fix before paint as they are so localised.
I had pretty much expected to be able to spray the walls after a light sand. Was that always unrealistic or if I can't see it and only feel it now, will it be the same after paint? Was I always going to need to do much more work to get a high class paint finish? Is the reason I don't feel this rippling in other houses that they have been sanded and painted several times over the years knocking down the ridges or are they always there and you just don't notice them once painted?
Thanks for any thoughts
Scott
I have a guy in plastering my whole house and he isn't doing a bad job, it just isn't what I was expecting. Can anyone help me understand if I am being too picky and getting a great job or if this guys is rushing perhaps because he is on a price. I don't want to insult his work un-necessarily or get done over by someone taking advantage.
When you walk into the rooms they initially look good. There is a little crazed cracking in one room he says he will fix but there is nothing else visible from a couple of meters other than some walls are more mottled in colour than others, the darker colours feeling courser, but nothing that would show after even a light sand.
What worries me is that when you run your hand along the wall you can feel them waving in and out. Place a straight edge against the wall and you can see it as well, (over any 1.5m you will see the walls touch about 4 times and the three hollows will be perhaps 3 mm). Most walls will have places where the straight edge rocks what I would call significantly, (the protrusion perhaps 1/2 cm), you can usually tell what he was struggling with as it will be a transition between old and new build or getting over a conduit for wire. I must stress, in the most part, you can't see any of this without a straight edge. Each room will have two or three small areas that you can see and are clearly going to need significant sanding or filling. An unexplained ridge or dip, perhaps near some complex transition. Ironically these bits look the easiest to fix before paint as they are so localised.
I had pretty much expected to be able to spray the walls after a light sand. Was that always unrealistic or if I can't see it and only feel it now, will it be the same after paint? Was I always going to need to do much more work to get a high class paint finish? Is the reason I don't feel this rippling in other houses that they have been sanded and painted several times over the years knocking down the ridges or are they always there and you just don't notice them once painted?
Thanks for any thoughts
Scott