Rechasing Walls After Lime Plastering Applied

[Orbison]

My builder has walked off site and had his own plasterer doing the plasterwork in a terraced house that was built in 1939. I have a number of questions about lime plasterwork and hoping someone here could help me out with them.

1). We want to reposition some vertically aligned sockets on a bedroom wall (see photos attached) but i'm unsure what the best approach is to chase the wall without damaging/cracking the new surrounding plasterwork. Would anyone have any recommendations that i could pass onto a recently qualified electrician to limit cracking?

2). The only evidence I have of the material used on the walls is a photo of a bag of 'Rhino - Hydrated Lime' and 'British Gypsum Thistle Bond-It'. Once the hydrated lime is mixed, is this the only material applied to the wall after the Thistle Bond-It is applied? Is there something else applied before/after the hydrated lime is applied??

Thanks

Orby

 

[leefaithfull]

hydrated lime ????,,,mate for starters it wanted to be hydraulic lime nhl 3,,,,bond it ?????,,nooooo he,s sealed the wall when it needed to breathe

 

[Stevieo]

hydrated lime ????,,,mate for starters it wanted to be hydraulic lime nhl 3,,,,bond it ?????,,nooooo he,s sealed the wall when it needed to breathe

Oops

 

[Deleted member 32554]

Don't let a sparky chase walls even if they have 40 years experience ,,,, end of

 

[The Hobo]

hello ROY cut out and patch with samegear

 

[johnzo]

Another home owner who hasn’t a clue what he is talking about

 

[Orbison]

Another home owner who hasn’t a clue what he is talking about

What are you talking about?

 

[Brimstone]

Wonder why the builder walked off site...

 

[Deleted member 32554]

Wonder why the builder walked off site...

Now now , let's be fair ,,,,,,
And let's have builders name lol

 

[stuart23]

Another home owner who hasn’t a clue what he is talking about

I don’t get this, are homeowners supposed to know all about lime plastering? 3/4 of the forum know nothing about it.

 

[johnzo]

No they are not but he’s on about lime plaster and his evidence is a bag of hydrated lime which is not used in lime plaster it’s hydraulic lime ,then he wants to use thistle bond ,as I said he hasn’t a clue what he’s talking about my point is get a qualified plasterer to come and do what needs doing ,he’s builder walked off site and took he’s plasterer with him ????