Hi There, my hallway has been plastered, then painted but there are many gouges, scratched and small pitted marks all over the place, i have filled the big once but it's covered in small gouges and nics - is there anything i can paint on first to even out the blemishes before i repaint ?
Thanks for your help!

You can't paint it on, but you can get a plastering trowel and mix up some easifill (slightly loose) and spread it over the offending areas, then leave to dry and sand over with a cheap electric sander.

This filler is cheap and easy to sand. Polycell do a DIY version call smooth over. I would avoid it at all costs. It is very expensive and almost impossible to sand.

did you plaster it your self or did you get someone in to do it. if you got someone in to do it i would call them back to sort it out if thats the standard of work they are charging people for they need to realise......give it up, of course if you did it yourself i would guess you have little experience in plastering and well done for tackling the hallway and jozeffo's method should sort it out.
out of interest did you get someone in or do it yourelf

only thing i wouldn't do is use an electric sander. Use gypsum sanding paper and do by hand.

..........and as said if its been a plasterer, then get them back.

Thanks for the replys, no i didn't do it myself but have moved into a house with it - one of the upstairs rooms is awful, loads of little holes like someone has shot needles into it !

i have little experience and not much budget so think i may have to fill the worse bits and sand by hand and try and think of it as rustic ! Yes i tried that smooth over stuff elsewhere and it's horrible, horrible, horrible - think they should be done for misleading the public !

Is it just little bubbles? You might find knocking the high spots off with a sander (electric or pole) then putting lining paper up gives you a decent finish.

Thanks for all your responses ! I thought about lining paper but on my own and with no experience of papering i think it would be too much to attempt. i think i will try the easyfill idea with some gypsum sanding paper - i will have a look in B&Q nest week.

Would it be worth using a PVA coat on the wall first - i have heard this from somewhere ?

Bev

No, not on finished plaster

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