Been doing a bit of plastering at 5 in the morning.
 

Dunno why I woke up that early like?

Anyway one of the bathroom walls needed plastering before tiling and it was
unsound in some places it being very old victorian plaster(crumbly stuff) so
I wasn't in the mood for hacking it all off yesterday so hit on the idea of
drilling random holes in the old plaster down to the brick with an well used
scarat cutter that was near blunt,in these holes I slapped some dry wall
adhesive and sized it all over to make a bond for the new plaster.

This has worked pretty well and I know I could of hacked off the old plaster
that seemingly was in unsound areas but that meant a lot of mess and dust
and filling in bigger holes that might of occured and possibly big pieces
falling off the wall.

Is this a good tip?

Your ever loving
George

Been doing a bit of plastering at 5 in the morning.
 

George wrote:
Dunno why I woke up that early like?

Anyway one of the bathroom walls needed plastering before tiling and it was
unsound in some places it being very old victorian plaster(crumbly stuff) so
I wasn't in the mood for hacking it all off yesterday so hit on the idea of
drilling random holes in the old plaster down to the brick with an well used
scarat cutter that was near blunt,in these holes I slapped some dry wall
adhesive and sized it all over to make a bond for the new plaster.

This has worked pretty well and I know I could of hacked off the old plaster
that seemingly was in unsound areas but that meant a lot of mess and dust
and filling in bigger holes that might of occured and possibly big pieces
falling off the wall.

Is this a good tip?

Your ever loving
George


My late uncle used to simply use lining paper...in fact I seem to recall
even newspaper soaked in wallpaper paste..and then hand applied plaster
'looks pretty authentic doesn't it'

He WAS an artist...

Been doing a bit of plastering at 5 in the morning.
 

"The Natural Philosopher" whilst munching away on his sugar puffs wrote in
message ...
My late uncle used to simply use lining paper...in fact I seem to recall
even newspaper soaked in wallpaper paste..and then hand applied plaster
'looks pretty authentic doesn't it'

He WAS an artist...

Pardon?

Been doing a bit of plastering at 5 in the morning.
 

In article ,
"George" writes:
Dunno why I woke up that early like?

Anyway one of the bathroom walls needed plastering before tiling and it was
unsound in some places it being very old victorian plaster(crumbly stuff) so
I wasn't in the mood for hacking it all off yesterday so hit on the idea of
drilling random holes in the old plaster down to the brick with an well used
scarat cutter that was near blunt,in these holes I slapped some dry wall
adhesive and sized it all over to make a bond for the new plaster.

This has worked pretty well and I know I could of hacked off the old plaster
that seemingly was in unsound areas but that meant a lot of mess and dust
and filling in bigger holes that might of occured and possibly big pieces
falling off the wall.

Is this a good tip?

Don't think so. I don't believe it would have been any more
difficult to do the job properly. If you wanted to repair
blown plaster without replastering, the method for doing
that is in the FAQ, and even less messy than yours.
As to how long your repair lasts for, let us know in a few
years time if the skim coat fixed in a few places to adhesive
has managed to hold the weight of the blown scratch coat
behind and the weight of the tiles. Good luck.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

Been doing a bit of plastering at 5 in the morning.
 

George wrote:
"The Natural Philosopher" whilst munching away on his sugar puffs wrote in
message ...
My late uncle used to simply use lining paper...in fact I seem to recall
even newspaper soaked in wallpaper paste..and then hand applied plaster
'looks pretty authentic doesn't it'

He WAS an artist...

Pardon?


Granted.