Old house new problems

[Vermelho]

Hello, I'm Paul and I've been lurking here for a while. I have an old house built in 1940 in Dublin and trying my hand at plastering as part of rehab. Going okay so far but plenty of questions.

I'll be doing a deep dive on plastering onto old rendered shite block walls also to see how it's done. Did my first wall and it went off very quick and plater is very questionable on it but it's still up.

 

[johnzo]

Old houses are a different beast what are you plastering on to ,

 

[Vermelho]

It's old plaster that had wallpaper on it, never painted. That was put onto really bad porous block work (clinker block?). I did one wall and had put plasterers pregrit on it but the plaster dried so quick when I put it on. It's all done but dodgy, won't be winning any competitions for it. I've enjoyed the process of learning though but don't know how you lads do it full time, some toll on the body.

Anyway, I read up on this forum and found loads of conflicting answers and I probably should have boarded it or used hardwall but I'm not even sure that's available in Ireland. So anyway I'm gonna sbr it (I've already but a heavy base of plasterers pregrit on it but I think that's basically just pva) and give that a go.

 

[Spitandpolish]

Hello, I'm Paul and I've been lurking here for a while. I have an old house built in 1940 in Dublin and trying my hand at plastering as part of rehab. Going okay so far but plenty of questions.

I'll be doing a deep dive on plastering onto old rendered shite block walls also to see how it's done. Did my first wall and it went off very quick and plater is very questionable on it but it's still up.

Mate the last thing you want to be doing as part of rehab program is trying to have a go at plastering a wall....its sure to drive you on to the drink ,... as standard !
Where did you think the..... "that c**t was F*****g plastered last night" ...came from ?