Don't use LG Solo, it goes off quicker than a 2 week old bottle of milk in the midday sun. You'll be chasing it right from the off and you won't win. Use a putty based ready mix, it will stay fresh in the bucket all day giving you plenty of time. Fill any deep holes first and make sure its suitably scratched up to provide a key. Start very early in the morning and give the wall a good drink multiple times well before you begin.I've stopped draught proofing windows for the year so we have returned to the hallway. We still have a fair amount more prep to do before I skim.
Stripping more of the wallpaper has lead to a huge amount of the skim coat being removed. There are some "islands" of firm skim left which I'm planning to marry the new skim up to.
I'm thinking pre prepared Mike Wye Heritage Lime Plaster or perhaps Lime Green Solo. Any recommendations based on the open texture I'll be skimming on to?
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I've been reading about your trials and tribulations with LG Solo so I will heed your advice! This will be my first time so I'm very happy to take things slow and steady.Don't use LG Solo, it goes off quicker than a 2 week old bottle of milk in the midday sun. You'll be chasing it right from the off and you won't win. Use a putty based ready mix, it will stay fresh in the bucket all day giving you plenty of time. Fill any deep holes first and make sure its suitably scratched up to provide a key. Start very early in the morning and give the wall a good drink multiple times well before you begin.
Don't get me wrong its pretty decent stuff in the hands of a competent professional, it can give you a really nice finish. I did a couple of really small walls and got a decent open textured finish but it was frantic and very hard work. If you're a first timer you really don't want to be using the stuff especially on a very large space and quite frankly a lime putty based finishing plaster will be cheaper and much more breathable than Solo which is NHL. It also has more flexibility if your house has a tendency to move about a bit.I've been reading about your trials and tribulations with LG Solo so I will heed your advice! This will be my first time so I'm very happy to take things slow and steady.
If you ever need to put lime plaster over plasterboard again, save some money and use something like Febond Blue Grit - It works just as well, and is also permeable to a certain extent. Used the Blue Grit when I did a ceiling here that had a thin lime skim over the top of plasterboard and gypsum plastered walls.We tried a few. Our preferred one was Limecote from Best of Lime near Haverhill. This was applied to areas with new lime basecoats or over existing walls and plasterboards that had been primed with the rather expensive DG27.
Good call, or even make your own out of watered down finishing plaster (or lime putty) and sand. The one thing people don't often know about standard plasterboard is it has breathability. LG Solo can also be used straight on to plaster board.If you ever need to put lime plaster over plasterboard again, save some money and use something like Febond Blue Grit - It works just as well, and is also permeable to a certain extent. Used the Blue Grit when I did a ceiling here that had a thin lime skim over the top of plasterboard and gypsum plastered walls.