Bonding to straighten out a concaved dot and dabbed wall?

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Hi all,

Hoping someone could help me out here.

I have a wall that has been dot and dabbed, but has clearly been pressed in too far in the middle of the board causing a bit of a concaved wall. (Put the straight edge on it and there’s a 3-4mm gap in the centre of each board.

Would you fill this part of the wall in with bonding and then feather edge it to straighten it out? Or just plaster it with multi finish and try to bring the curve out slightly with that?

Thanks in advance to all replies :)
 
Maxski14 said:
Hi all,

Hoping someone could help me out here.

I have a wall that has been dot and dabbed, but has clearly been pressed in too far in the middle of the board causing a bit of a concaved wall. (Put the straight edge on it and there’s a 3-4mm gap in the centre of each board.

Would you fill this part of the wall in with bonding and then feather edge it to straighten it out? Or just plaster it with multi finish and try to bring the curve out slightly with that?

Thanks in advance to all replies :)
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Yeah just fill with bonding if you need it dead flat. If not you can level it up with skim slightly and have a 1 or 2mm dip in the middle by the end of it, which probably wouldn't be the end of the world. Better than most builders would dot and dab it anyway
 
Keegan88 said:
Yeah just fill with bonding if you need it dead flat. If not you can level it up with skim slightly and have a 1 or 2mm dip in the middle by the end of it, which probably wouldn't be the end of the world. Better than most builders would dot and dab it anyway
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Thanks a lot, will just skim it slightly thicker in the low spot!
 
if it was being tiled, I’d want them dead flat and plumb, so would redo, but for plastering, a bit of bonding would sort it.
 
ChrispyUK said:
if it was being tiled, I’d want them dead flat and plumb, so would redo, but for plastering, a bit of bonding would sort it.
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Y redoit if you can get it rhight whith bonding. 3 4m nothing get that whith skim leave it for 20 minute skim over happy days
 
What a load of b*ll***s, 3mm in every 1.8m is acceptable to any trade standard and anyone who believes that their boarding is always 100% spot on is delusional. You'll hardly ever skim a wall where everything is within 3mm and no one would notice if you just cracked on and skimmed it. If bonding out I'd rather put a coat over the whole wall to get a more even suction, rather than have it patchy as hell.
 
lurpak said:
Oh Crispy.
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When a tiler doing a job after me I always have a word whith him before you start. Get straight edge on that wall if your not happy tell me before you start in front of customer. What ther playing at they start when you gone start complaining it 3 5 mm out just to get mor money out of people then it gives you a bad name ther wankers some of the tilers.
 
carys said:
When a tiler doing a job after me I always have a word whith him before you start. Get straight edge on that wall if your not happy tell me before you start in front of customer. What ther playing at they start when you gone start complaining it 3 5 mm out just to get mor money out of people then it gives you a bad name ther wankers some of the tilers.
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Better to sink in the belly out
 
If it’s super thick i’ll just bond it. Otherwise 50\50 ish. I don’t measure tho could be 70/30 skim bond
 
lurpak said:
Can’t be a correct measure for an incorrect concoction. All depends on the artex. And size of ceiling. Bonding in multi gives you loads of time for big hits imo.
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There is no correct gauge for it mate it’s an old trick of the trade after all which I was taught donkeys years ago. it all depends on how you like working with it? For me it’s a double handful per bag of multi.
And the mix would give you loads of time at 50/50 that’s for sure! Hahahahaha!
 
Cockney1 said:
There is no correct gauge for it mate it’s an old trick of the trade after all which I was taught donkeys years ago. it all depends on how you like working with it? For me it’s a double handful per bag of multi.
And the mix would give you loads of time at 50/50 that’s for sure! Hahahahaha!
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I know mate, that’s my point lol. I used
To give zombie s**t about claiming that mix when I first joined haha.

I do all sorts with artex. All depends. Sometimes just mix first up bit
Thicker is all it needs. Sometimes not too much bonding but never only a handful I cannot see the point in that.

On this job i just knocked up 5 bags of bonding no multi n covered all the artex. So can just pva n skim tomo. Cold walls so played it safe.
 
John j said:
Ha ha . Need some advice of you . How much bonding to a bag of finish for zombie coat.
I.ve only landed a full upstairs n stair case of artex to skim . Shoot me now
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ask lurpack hes the one that still puts that s**t on for us to cover
 
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