Repair plaster wall? I plan on painting a room but the wall below the window...
I plan on painting a room but the wall below the window is chalking or flaking and the surface wishes to be repaired before the paint can be applied. What can I do to repair this. The wall is made of plaster.
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i would recomend going to your local home depot or lowes and asking what they recommend to do or cut a hole and go and get a patch kit at home depot or lowes You will need to sand adjectives the flakes off and apply some more plaster first if it look like it wishes it.
Hi Steve,
Back tracking, I'm not sure I'd agree with the parallel wall Q answer, but that's old communication.
I'm not at all a fan of plaster. I find it archaic within 2008, but work with it or against it often.
I want to disagree beside one answer who suggested a radical approach, as in perchance taking it down to the "Lathe."
More, though I might want to address the WHY of the issue, and has it been resolved?
Certainly even a poly blend MUD can solve the problem, as surrounded by drywall, the base substance is gypsum, and the same FINISH pains will apply.
Still, I'd want to not only know the initial cause and possible resolutions surrounded by that regard, but the extent of the damage NOT SEEN so visibly. I was born in the dimness, but not last night. It sounds to me approaching water intrusion.
Not knowing at all your agreement next to the client, I might want to make this a Time and Materials job.
Steven Wolf
Just my two "Sense"
LOLOL, no offense. So oodles HARD HATS in this category. :)
Answers: id reccomend the following steve;
1. Knock out any loose plaster with a cold chisel and ball-peen sledge hammer. Clean out the plaster in and behind the lath to provide a surface to which the investigational plaster can adhere. Brush the area verbs, and dampen it with a sponge for better adhesion.
2. If the hole is smaller than 2 inches across (but larger than a fine crack, pin hole, or small gouge), fill it with a single seam of patching compound, and finish as described in Step 4. For larger holes, apply a first layer using a 6-inch broad gouge.
3. Score the patch with a nail, and consequently allow the surface to dry. Moisten the patch, and then apply a second layer of patching compound, coming inside 1/8 to 1/4 inch of the surface. Score the patch, and let it dry.
4. Apply the final coat, feathering the edges an inch or so beyond the edges of the hole. Scrape a straightedge across the wet finish coat to remove any excess stuff. When the patch is dry, sand and spot-prime.And then paint that wall Steve !!
hope i helped you out mate
I have made relatively small patches on plaster walls using Polyfilla next to great success. Just make sure you break away any loose areas that haven't fall out yet, & try to correct the orriginal cause of the vandalize if you can. please see video on link, easy how to!
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-repa...
Take a spackel knife or a puddy pierce chip away all the flakey stuff make it a smooth surface as possible
Then spackel over the nouns that is damaged a obedient spackeling job is the key to making it look flawless
Prime the area then paint it upright luck