I'm in the process of moving house at the moment, so my planning tendencies have gone into overdrive for the bits I want to do to the new house.
In a couple of the rooms there are patches where I'd say something has been removed from the wall and (poorly) covered up. I'm intending to do the house up room by room, but I've not done any plastering before...
- If there are just a few patches that are the issue and on closer inspection the majority of the wall is fine, would I be best just sorting out the patches? If so, given the walls are painted, would I just use something like Thistle bonding coat to each it out (there wouldn't be the thickness to then put a multi finish top layer on it)?
- What are the criteria when looking at a painted wall to decide between patching and re-skimming?
Thanks.
In a couple of the rooms there are patches where I'd say something has been removed from the wall and (poorly) covered up. I'm intending to do the house up room by room, but I've not done any plastering before...
- If there are just a few patches that are the issue and on closer inspection the majority of the wall is fine, would I be best just sorting out the patches? If so, given the walls are painted, would I just use something like Thistle bonding coat to each it out (there wouldn't be the thickness to then put a multi finish top layer on it)?
- What are the criteria when looking at a painted wall to decide between patching and re-skimming?
Thanks.