How to fill walls were plaster has lifted off please?

clairibel

Hi,

I'm in need of some advice please. We have just stripped the stairwell walls and found the plaster is pretty good we were going to re paper as we thought the walls would be bad, but now want to paint.

The issue is there are a few holes in the plaster some quite large biggest about 10cm across where the handrail was attached and has lifted the plaster.

So my question is what would be the best way of filling these to match in with plaster, bear in mind i'm a novice

Thanks

pimento

If I were doing it myself, I'd use polyfilla and then use lining paper over the top and paint that.

If I had some spare spondulicks, I'd pay to have it professionally filled and skimmed.

WestonDave

I personally find polyfilla and paint sometimes don't stick together. Tetrion filler is better, but for smallish holes like that you should be able to get a good finish provided you have a big enough implement to put it on.

Ideally you want something (Wilko's do proper rectangular plastering trowels for a few quid and whilst not up to pro standards if you keep them clean after use are fine for patching) which is big enough to let you smooth across the whole hole in one go so that the surface of the patch lines up with the old edges. If you have to do a number of strokes to cover the width it gets hard to make sure you don't have a dip or ridge in the middle.

Give it a quick polish with a wet trowel after its just started to set and with a bit of effort and practice it'll be like new. Its when you get A3 size holes like we got when we did our stairs that it gets more fun - its patched for now but will probably get skimmed later when we can afford it.

Plasterer

Pay me a grand to do it

Just kidding easy fills probably the best for this

clairibel

:rotfl:Thanks for the replies i will be off to wilkies and b&q later. This is just to patch it up as we are skint and spent what cash we had on main area's, so hopefully in time we will be able to have it done by a proper plasterer Not for a grand though!