plastering and floors.....

[skier-hughes]

or plastering and ceilings.....

What order should I do this?

I have the kitchen and the bedroom to plaster.
Equal sizes.
All walls are straight up and down (well as straight as they get )
One directly above the other.

New floor to go down in bedroom, which is the ceiling in the kitchen.

Should I plaster the walls while the floorboards are up, maybe difficult as will need to loose lay the old boards, therefore giving easy access though to all the walls.

Or, should I plaster after putting down the new floor?
If I do, I'd have to guess the depth of plaster and cut the boards to not fit against the bare brick wall, then plaster to the boards, or, cut the boards to fit to the wall and the plaster will encose the boards, that doesn't sound good to me, as removing the boards will be impossible without damaging the plasterwork.

What sort of depth would the plaster be?

Graham

 

[Gervase]

Floor first, then plaster. If you're plastering onto bare stone/brick, then allow for a half-inch gap to play with between the boards and the wall. If you're having skirtings then you can leave the plaster shy of the floor. If not, then plaster down to the floor. It's what was often done in houses without skirtings. Or you can nail an 25x10 strip of batten along the edge and fill any irregularities with decorator's caulk.
I'm puzzled as to why you'd want to remove the boards after plastering.

 

[skier-hughes]

What I thought.

Well maybe 50 years down the line a board may break, or something?
I have no intention of removing any boards in the near future, of course now I've said that I'll make some crass mistake and they'll all need to come back up in a weeks time :roll:

 

[Jon Maine]

We did all of our plastering whilst temporary flooring was in place so not to get lime burns and water stains on the new oak and as we have underfloor heating I did not want to install the boards which are between 8" and 14" until all of the wet trades were gone as I wanted minimal shrinkage when the heating went on.

Fitted the boards afterwards and made good the plaster down to the boards. All a little tricky but the flooring is all good.We only have fictive skirting boards, much easier to mitre and scribe cut.

What Gervase says is the normal way of doing it and how I would have done it had I not had the other considerations to make.

 

[Jon Maine]

I'm puzzled as to why you'd want to remove the boards after plastering.

He is guessing that he will forget something in the void 8) :twisted:

 

[skier-hughes]

I'm puzzled as to why you'd want to remove the boards after plastering.

He is guessing that he will forget something in the void 8) :twisted:

The only void in our house is in my head
No, the floor is the ceiling of the room below.