plastering

[plasticpigeon]

Hello people. I have started plastering my kitchen. I am doing lime plastering on the external walls and have found that I can get around 8m^2 of backing render done per day. This seems very slow to me. I am having to put up screeds in order to get the walls even close to straight and plumb. One wall needed the plaster to be an inch at the bottom, grinding out to about 8 mm at the top!!! However it is such hard work and so slow that I am considering boarding the internal walls as I don't expect to get condensation on these so the plasterboard dabs won't matter so much. I may just do lime again as I'm a perfectionist nutter but what do people think about the boarding???

 

[Zebra]

Hi, I'm a perfectionist nutter too, but you wouldn't believe it if you saw the inside of this place at the moment. I was going to say don't you just have to love your lumps and bumps though, your bits which lean and your bits which bow? If the wall's not straight, it's not straight.... but then I reread you post and saw that you're talking about a kitchen. I can see why you would want straight walls to hang cabinets on.
I think you're doing well at 8 sq m per day. I'm about to start, well, soon... ish... plastering my entire bedroom, and I only hope I can get that much done in a day. I'm going to be doing two coats of coarse plaster, floated and sponged off with no top coat of fine plaster, to leave a slightly coarse finish, and if it's at an angle, it's at an angle. Having said that, a bedroom will suffer the unevenness more than a kitchen. Ooh, that's an idea though - I'm using lime plaster over woodwool boards. They are of course more expensive than plasterboard but depends on the area you're looking at. You could use woodwool boards to get the wall straight and then lime plaster onto them. You don't dot and dab them though, or at least I don't know if you can. Then you wouldn't have some walls in gypsum and some in lime.

 

[skier-hughes]

I've just measured my bathroom and that's about 45sq m and it took 2 professionals 3 days to do each coat, I think you are doing amazingly well!!

 

[MatthewC]

I'm going to be doing two coats of coarse plaster, floated and sponged off with no top coat of fine plaster, to leave a slightly coarse finish

I would have thought you would get more than a slightly coarse finish if you sponge the top coat of coarse plaster - it'll be like coarse sandpaper, surely!

 

[LadyArowana]

I would have thought you would get more than a slightly coarse finish if you sponge the top coat of coarse plaster - it'll be like coarse sandpaper, surely!

Just the way she likes it, nothing better than a good scratch.

 

[Zebra]

Ha ha yes, one great big scratching post! But no, I need to go out into the churchyard if I want to have a roll about, it's a bit too small in here.
Yes, the sponged coarse plaster is rough, but once it's limewashed, that smooths things out a bit, and I think it's OK for my house, I'm not saying it would suit other houses.