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Oh my goodness. I should have thought twice and three times before posting that thread on here. I'm a Christian lad and it's not as if I'm not familiar with the content on here as I've been grateful to pick up many a helpful tip whilst browsing incognito.

Well it did look super 'til it cracked! Still it only cracked so that I noticed it after over one year....but it did go right the way across the room. Incidentally I wasn't "super" enough to plaster it expertly without putting cream of tartare in the mix and also I needed to put on a third...

Well it did look super 'til it cracked! Still it only cracked so that I noticed it after over one year....but it did go right the way across the room. Incidentally I wasn't "super" enough to plaster it expertly without putting cream of tartare in the mix, and also I needed to put on a third...

...just noticed as well that I didn't explain properly that I was thinking to cut out a 6 inch or 1 foot wide strip for the long kitchen wall crack. Whether using wider heavy duty scrim rather than just regular self adhesive 50mm stuff would be able to spread the contraction/expansion forces...

...... I did once skim a Victorian lath and plaster ceiling after having put about 100 metres of narrow scrimtape over multiplied cracks. Other plasterers would definitely have overboarded, yet 5 years later it was still in great shape. However the folks certainly didn't live on a tight budget...

Hi, I've previously worked quite a few years as a plasterer/decorator, and now, for a change, have had the privilege of plastering in my own house as previously I was renting. Having plastered some big rooms in a Victorian House with eleven foot ceilings, having given my imported US stilts a try...