Hi,

I have just had a plasterer in to skim our bedroom wall and have noticed some small gliches. I was expecting it to be virtually perfect but my wife reckons that I am being to fussy. I have attached 2 pictures of the type of glitches I am talking about. These pictures are stood directly in front at close range to the glitches.

For info the house was built 1969 and we stripped the wall back to plaster from wallpapaer then called the plasterer in.

Many thanks.

No scale to go by....1cm ..10 cm ..???

If those are the only glitches just sand them back with fine sandpaper before mistcoating...

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Sorry about the scale.

The area pictured is around 12 square cm.

How many patches are like it?

If they are proud, then as wine~o suggested. I'd certainly sort them, or you'll stare at them forever more.

I suppose the other question is, was it a cheap job?

BG

About 10 dotted around the room. They seem to be near the ceiling or other objects. They are not noticeable from a distance.

Also they are not proud so sanding them wont help. If I fill them the texture will still look odd.

Thats not an unreasonable level of finish. I would expect to take ten minutes to fill a room after I have plastered and another ten to sand.

Plasterers are not supposed to be 100%, but they any filling required should be easy to do once the mist coat is on.

Just be thankful you didn't get the spreads I know......they tend to do a lot of new builds and LOVE to wind up the decs from time to time.

They produce an AMAZING finish, that is polished and polished and polished until it's that smooth, paint won't stick to it......

BG

:D

Yeah I would be interested to know if it was a cheap job

If I was out there and for whatever reason (…dodgy bag of skim, excessive heat, that sort of thing) I had a few marks left on the wall I would quickly knock up a bit of filler for them as the last task of the day

But yeah mate just a little bit of a filler is all you need and sand it nice and flat once its dried, simples.

If it is just the odd one or two then it is just one of things but 10 on one wall is just poor! It does depend on price if it was a cheap job then you won't be paying for perfection but still a poor showing.

Plastering is a trade that seems to attract a lot of fast trackers now i.e do a two week course and you're a fully 'qualified' spread. Maybe I'm imagining it but 10 years ago I don't remember coming across such shoddy plasterers, they were the minority rather than the majority

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The quality of the finish varies alot between plasterers and CR is bang on the money. There are many who can skim a wall or two, but give them a whole flat or house and you would see the difference in terms of speed and finish.

I know decorators who will skim the odd wall, but they tend to use their decorating ability to make up for what they lack in the plastering department. Thats fine, and a useful skill to get work that other decs can't do.

What is not acceptable with a skim are ridges, bumps and areas which are textured in finish. These cannot just be filled and sanded, they have to be feathered and that isn't acceptable. Scratches caused by grit when polishing, trowel marks, dinks, divots etc are easy and quick to fill. Corners can be poor, especially if the underlying plasterboard has big gaps at the corners, or they have been brushed out too early and you can see the brushmarks.

Price has a bit to do with it because if you pay £ 200 for a room, it will be done in a day, i.e rushed a bit. Cheaper than that and you will be getting a one coat, sponge float finish which is not good practice, but I have done it in commercial kitchens etc because an excellent finish was not required.

in my eyes thats not good enough, no matter how small or large the patches are, they shouldn't be there. yes you can fill it and try and hide it but thats not the point. once ive finished a job no sanding or filling is required. guaranteed. if a plasterer cannot leave a job to this standard then they are not a plasterer.

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wish you were near me, I've got a bathroom that needs doing in July (if I can pull my finger out)...haha

Just been to a bathroom I am doing and the decorator has put ten spots of filler on the walls. Took him five minutes and will take another five minutes to sand. I am on day rate. If I had plastered slower it would have taken an extra two hours and cost them an extra £ 50.

On a recent job, I had five spreads working and none were perfect as SB suggests, but the decorators only complained about one ceiling.

looks more like dodgy paintwork than dodgy plastering...

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