Hi I'm new to plastering, been a decorator for 30 years.
I hired a plaster to do my home, he did my ceilings due to limited time.
I had 2 smallish walls and left to do in 2 rooms where plaster coat had fell off the walls and left old bonding.
He recommend I apply a coat of hardwall and fill out plaster over the top.
The original bonding was a dry powdery surface.
I applied pva to the surface and left for several days, then applied a coat of hardwall.
I mixed it like plaster applied with a trail and could not play with it to much after as it started to pull but got a level surface.
After 3 days now it is soft.
If I run my hand over the surface dust comes off and if I run my finger tip over it I can leave a mark, I've never used hardwall is it not meant to go hard?
Spoke to plasterer and he recommended i apply PVA and fill?
Many thanks for any future replys
Rob
I hired a plaster to do my home, he did my ceilings due to limited time.
I had 2 smallish walls and left to do in 2 rooms where plaster coat had fell off the walls and left old bonding.
He recommend I apply a coat of hardwall and fill out plaster over the top.
The original bonding was a dry powdery surface.
I applied pva to the surface and left for several days, then applied a coat of hardwall.
I mixed it like plaster applied with a trail and could not play with it to much after as it started to pull but got a level surface.
After 3 days now it is soft.
If I run my hand over the surface dust comes off and if I run my finger tip over it I can leave a mark, I've never used hardwall is it not meant to go hard?
Spoke to plasterer and he recommended i apply PVA and fill?
Many thanks for any future replys
Rob