I live in a 160 year old Yorkshire Stone house which has a fairly large but also fairly underused cellar.
We've lived in the house about 2 years now and have finally got round to doing something with said cellar. We are lucky in the fact it is very dry most of the time so no damp issues or anything like that however the previous plaster & paint job looks to have been done an very long time ago and has just given up the ghost through age.
My original plan was just to take all the flaking paint off and repaint with an appropriate paint (as I am not looking to tank out the cellar or anything like that, just a lick of paint). However when I have scraped the paint off in certain areas I am taking nice big chunks of light blue plaster too.......
I know a professional would probably strip the entire thing back to bare brick and start again but i have no real desire to do that especially when the plaster seems intact in the most part. So I guess my question is can I just use some patch up plaster to fill in the areas where the plaster have come away and then proceed with the painting? Is there a certain type of plaster to use for this or perhaps something a bit stronger?
I have attached a couple of photos of the sort of thing I am encountering with the plaser coming away.
Cheers, Dave.
We've lived in the house about 2 years now and have finally got round to doing something with said cellar. We are lucky in the fact it is very dry most of the time so no damp issues or anything like that however the previous plaster & paint job looks to have been done an very long time ago and has just given up the ghost through age.
My original plan was just to take all the flaking paint off and repaint with an appropriate paint (as I am not looking to tank out the cellar or anything like that, just a lick of paint). However when I have scraped the paint off in certain areas I am taking nice big chunks of light blue plaster too.......
I know a professional would probably strip the entire thing back to bare brick and start again but i have no real desire to do that especially when the plaster seems intact in the most part. So I guess my question is can I just use some patch up plaster to fill in the areas where the plaster have come away and then proceed with the painting? Is there a certain type of plaster to use for this or perhaps something a bit stronger?
I have attached a couple of photos of the sort of thing I am encountering with the plaser coming away.
Cheers, Dave.