Plasterer advice please

jojo2910

Hi,

We are starting to renovate our 1960's bungalow. Three rooms (two bedrooms and the lounge) have anaglypta wallpaper on them and as we are removing it the walls aren't looking too good. We are looking to get a plasterer to skim the walls and remove the artex ceilings.

My OH seems to think that if a plasterer came in and skimmed the walls in the morning, it would be dry enough by the evening for us to be able to hang the curtain rail back up and sleep in our room. I'm not so sure. I think we'll need to renovate the bedrooms one at a time, so we can sleep in the other room whilst we wait for the plaster etc to dry.

I'm after some advice as to how we should procede.

Thanks

nickj_2

if you can ,i would do one room at a time ,get it finished and then swap rooms ,

art_for_arts_sake

If it's just a skim it might appear to be dry, but plastering takes days to dry properly IMO. It causes high levels of humidity so that, and the moisture from breathing, etc., will leave your windows running with water. It's your call but I'd move a bed into another room while it's being done as it's very dusty too. Talking of dust, is the Artex being skimmed over or removed and are you aware it may contain asbestos fibre?

jojo2910

art_for_arts_sake wrote: »

If it's just a skim it might appear to be dry, but plastering takes days to dry properly IMO. It causes high levels of humidity so that, and the moisture from breathing, etc., will leave your windows running with water. It's your call but I'd move a bed into another room while it's being done as it's very dusty too. Talking of dust, is the Artex being skimmed over or removed and are you aware it may contain asbestos fibre?

At this stage, we don't know. Were going to take some advice from the plasterers who come to quote. The house hasn't been decorated in years.

We've just lived through a full re-wire, so we're used to dust.

cyclonebri1

There will be no problem moving back in the same evening, all that will be in the atmosphere will be condensed water, harmless.

Yes it will be wet but not for long if it's just a skim over.

To save messing with holes for the curtain rails, assuming the same ones are going back in, take co-ordinates of the holes so you can simply poke the holes clear.

By that I mean measure from the ceiling to the hole and the wall to the hole and note the measurements, (allow for the fact that the wall will move in a little due to re-skimming).
Or you could leave a screw in the wall plug but plasterers don't particularly like that for obvious reasons.