Best alternative to lime?

[liam546]

I own a victorian solid brick house with lime mortar and soft bricks. The inside is lime plaster.

Im completely renovating my property and I'm looking for some advice of what plaster to use in my bathroom and upstairs generally.

Akthough ive ive had rising damp issues downstairs I have no damp upstairs. I have had a quote for lime and it's just too expensive (although I realise this is best option to allow house to breathe) so I'm looking for an alternative.

Ive read about avoiding bonding at all costs on solid brick houses due to bonding sucking up all moisture. Then I've read about Hardwall but again I'm not sure as this is another gypsum based product which I'm worried will attract moisture. Lastly I've read about dri wall but here my concern that the content is 46% cement and this will potentially make my bathroom walls very cold and attract condensation as well as sealing moisture in the wall not allowing it to breathe

Any advice on what is best would be great??

 

[mrsdean]

Lemon?

On a serious note I will ask my husband when he wakes up. I just really wanted to say 'lemon'.

 

[nicksey]

After the bathrooms completed are you going to tile and paint the bathroom with bathroom paint ?

 

[Alastairreid]

Lemon?

On a serious note I will ask my husband when he wakes up. I just really wanted to say 'lemon'.

 

[mrsdean]

I am less drunk today, and can offer not much more advice than before really! I have just bought a late 1940s/early 1950s semi which looked like a major cosmetic overhaul and has become a back to brick shell money pit.

One of the contractors that came out to survey the mildly disconcerting shell noted that the plaster ceilings that I had left whilst awaiting advice had a 'lime wash' on them which meant that they could not be skimmed and would need to be overboarded given the different absorbancy factors. I have failed to speak to my husband about your issue sadly (he spent a year working on a Grade 1 listed building that had to use lime plaster to comply with planning[not as a plasterer sadly, or indeed any trade that could help rebuild my house]). But I can pass on that the advice given to me was to overboard anything lime rendered because plaster just won't stick.