1 week old plaster coming off wall!!!!

Doozergirl

Kellez wrote: »

Doyou mean the febond blue grit?

He means the wall. The wall that he referred to earlier in his sentence.

societys_child

Is it the PVA? I noticed that he used B&Q PVA and the container was already opened, it was not brand new

Never known PVA "go off", I used some which has been open ~5 years, worked fine.

if this is the case does this mean that the PVA didn't stick to the wall?

If there was some kind of yellow coating remaining on the wall it may have stuck to this ok, but the yellow coating may have been pulled from the wall. No one can really tell from here.

Kellez

I talked with the plasterer today, he said that he applies PVA 24 hours before, then he does a base coat and then he skims over.

He said he will remove any loose bits and do them again and then skim the whole wall again so i don't get patches, however is there a problem if i get patches? does he really have to skim all over again? The patches will go away once i paint right?

He thinks that the problem is that the plaster dried too quickly because he put the heat on over night (on the forth or fifth day), because it was supposed to freeze during the night.

or he says it could be the glue from the wallpaper.

Once he removes the loose bits we will know if the base coat came off or if the 2nd coat came off.

shall i ask him to use the febond blue grit to repair the loose bits?

suisidevw

I'd let him do his job rather than telling him what to use!

phill99

Don't start telling tradesmen hiw to do jobs. Let them use their experience to sort the problem out.

FiremanDave

suisidevw wrote: »

I'd let him do his job rather than telling him what to use!

phill99 wrote: »

Don't start telling tradesmen hiw to do jobs. Let them use their experience to sort the problem out.

hellohellohellohello

So there is an echo in here tonight. :rotfl:

Kellez

well he never heard of this febon blue grit before when i told him about it. He is also planning to do the same as he did before, remove loose bits apply 2 coats of pva and then base coat and then skim and then skim the whole wall again, but i asked him not to skim the whole wall again if the patches will not be visible after painting.

if there was a problem when he used pva then if he use pva again then we may have problem again,

Well it wasn't my idea about febon blue grit, but people from online forums.

we will see once he removes the lose bits

Kellez

He said he will remove any loose bits and do them again and then skim the whole wall again so i don't get patches, however is there a problem if i get patches? does he really have to skim all over again? The patches will go away once i paint right?

phill99

Kellez wrote: »

He said he will remove any loose bits and do them again and then skim the whole wall again so i don't get patches, however is there a problem if i get patches? does he really have to skim all over again? The patches will go away once i paint right?

Again, you are trying to tell the tradesman what to do.

He's doing you a favour by reskimming. It gives a far superior finish. Patching looks awful and even with the best plasterers, its difficult to reather in properly.

Let him skim the whole wall.

Kellez

ok i will let him do what he wants