new plaster

Hi, We recently had our 1930s house replastered throughout and noticed some patches appearing through the mist coat. It’s been 5 weeks since the plastering was complete and appears to be totally dry. When painting the issues seem to be where the plaster has some patterning as the attached...

Hi had my kitchen ceiling skimmed about 5 weeks ago, over the top of the old ceiling which was just in a bad state. It was boarded originally. Everything has been fine, until yesterday, I noticed a yellow stain in one of the corners. Ironically it’s the corner than dried out first after...

hello! I hope someone can help. We recently had a hallway replastered, following a damp course. I applied a mist coat of watered down emulsion, and it has come up with a mapping effect - that is to say big raised patches where the mist coat hasn’t properly sunk into the walls. I somewhat...

Hi, Had an extension done and builder has skim plastered the walls. He recommended using matt emulsion to prime the walls rather than artex sealer as this would stop the plaster drying. He was keen to stress that we shouldn’t use silk as it would peel off. However, the final paint I want to...

Hello We had an extension, and I painted one of the new rooms with a coat of Dulux Matt emulsion {edit - thinned by 10%}, followed by another normal coat on the upper half of the walls about 4 hours later. My intention was to mask off horizontally and paint the lower half with a couple of...

Hi I've just had an extension with newly plastered walls & ceilng. In the bathroom I used Wickes paint for new plaster with 10% water as the mist coat then followed by 2 coats of dulux bathroom paint 12 hours later. Hopefully this should be ok. Stupidly I then applied the excess bathroom paint...