just had a plasterer plaster my house, one of the rooms where he's trowled up at the end he's got water marks all down the plaster ,when I'm painting in other rooms I've noticed it's hard to,cover these marks, but this room has loads is there something I can use to cover like a stain blocking undercoat paint instead ?
New plaster question
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Are you mist coating the new plaster work. As that is the correct process to follow, ideally two coats of mist coat as prep.
Thats a bad technique causing the water marks - the plasterer was badly taught or has got into careless habits with the damping brush.
Water should be applied very lightly, sometimes not at all. And the finished surface should show no trace of trowel, brush or slap-dash.
Its all in the technique - technique includes skill and organising the time for prep, spreads and coats. Turning back & catching the finish just right, which any skilled plaster will do as second nature, means you need very little water.
Water should be applied very lightly, sometimes not at all. And the finished surface should show no trace of trowel, brush or slap-dash.
Its all in the technique - technique includes skill and organising the time for prep, spreads and coats. Turning back & catching the finish just right, which any skilled plaster will do as second nature, means you need very little water.
Genreally speaking and right handed plasterer will start on the left hand side working towards the right unless left hand then right to left.
So when troweling the plaster up any water used will be moved along the wall with each stroke. As the comment above suggest the plasterer you employed either has been taught incorrectly or uses far to much water. I would ask him or her to come back to sort the issue out
So when troweling the plaster up any water used will be moved along the wall with each stroke. As the comment above suggest the plasterer you employed either has been taught incorrectly or uses far to much water. I would ask him or her to come back to sort the issue out
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