We have stripped some walls which are very pitted. I would rather not plaster the hole room as seems very over kill but its too much to just to fill and rub down. Is there something I could use to put a thin coat over the wall which will fill the fits
Thanks
Glenn
Polyfiller (or Wickes cheap equivalent filler), mixed with water 'till it's fairly runny, and applied with a steel trowel (or filling knife if not too much area. Smooth it on, let it dry, remove ridges with fine paper on a block, done.
blown vinyl wallpaper covers a multitude of sins.
Quicker and cheaper to mix a bucketful of plasterboard adhesive and use a plastering trowel to fill the dints.
Yup. A steel trowel is the thing, filler is filler... depends on what he's got to do (hence the ref. to Wickes filler, which is cheapish). Perhaps one-coat might do? I haven't thought about using that before, do you think it'd do? Dunno if it'd rub off easily.
you mean like a skim? One of us is confused here.
NT
Polyskim, followed by a merry hour or ten of sanding.
I used some special "surface preparation" paint from B&Q that you apply with a roller, forget what it was called but came in a rectangular tub (Possibly made by Dulux). It was the consistency of thick porridge.
It did an OK job, imperfections less noticeable although still there.
sponix
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