Olivercottenham
New Member
Ey up, New here and been lurking the last few weeks. Went to do my first plastering job ever after going on a course 2 month ago and doing my house (which has gone really well) I did everything I was taught.
Yesterday, everything was going great but then literally a nightmare came true on one bit.
I was doing an old wall which had wall paper removed, bits of filler all over, few cracks but was sound with no hollows. It had 3 coats of 3:1 Pva applied but seemed to soak in really quick. I started skimming, did 2 coats but the whole time I seemed to be chasing it and was going off pretty quick (a normal sized bedroom wall) Got both coats on and looked great but then looked 5 mins later and it was peeling off the wall in once place above the bedroom door!! Just that bit. I'd already done the ceiling the previous day and another wall and everything was fine.
Scraped it off just that bit, rest of it was fine (I think) and blathered some neat Pva on that bit of scraped off even that dried pretty quick, so I skimmed it again while it was tacky and was OK after that.
Just wondering why that would have happened? Could have done without that stress on my first real job, confidence is knocked a little and my finger knuckles and wrist are killing, been taking glucosamine and fish oil capsules for a week.
Yesterday, everything was going great but then literally a nightmare came true on one bit.
I was doing an old wall which had wall paper removed, bits of filler all over, few cracks but was sound with no hollows. It had 3 coats of 3:1 Pva applied but seemed to soak in really quick. I started skimming, did 2 coats but the whole time I seemed to be chasing it and was going off pretty quick (a normal sized bedroom wall) Got both coats on and looked great but then looked 5 mins later and it was peeling off the wall in once place above the bedroom door!! Just that bit. I'd already done the ceiling the previous day and another wall and everything was fine.
Scraped it off just that bit, rest of it was fine (I think) and blathered some neat Pva on that bit of scraped off even that dried pretty quick, so I skimmed it again while it was tacky and was OK after that.
Just wondering why that would have happened? Could have done without that stress on my first real job, confidence is knocked a little and my finger knuckles and wrist are killing, been taking glucosamine and fish oil capsules for a week.