To cheer up my s*it week I managed to find a customer today that has bricked up a fire place and plastered it ready for an electric fire to be fitted.
It'll sand!
We will see.
I had no SDS drill with me today so I could not actually mount the fire.
It seems that damp is already coming through the wall.
Who's responsible for the minitrunking and making good round the sockets?
Owain
I installed the trunking to supply the electric fire.
Nothing else is of my concern or my job. The whole room was plastered 3 years ago (apart from the fire place)
Shabby chic rustic look?
Ah economy of plastering brings bumpy finish. Having said that most of the walls in this 1930s terrace are wobbly tilted, bumpy or curved near corners. I don't think accuracy was strived for at the time in 1939. Brian
And the dust will persist for years. grin. Brian
In my 1905 (ish) house the plaster often curves outwards at the top and bottom of a 2.8m high internal wall by around an 25mm. No corner seems to be 90 degrees. Everything seems to have done by eye without using a straight edge, spirit level or set square. When the windows were recently replaced it was discovered that the window pillars were not truly vertical.
Greek owners ?
And accuracy (of plastering) had not improved much by 1976, when my house was built.
The only thing the plasterers had developed to a fine art was applying a wafer-thin coat of gypsum plaster over the sand and cement base coat. The latter was also weaker than normal so that any sort of remedial work breaks through the gypsum top coat and the base coat disintegrates into sand and fine dust.
Andrew
Many people who blocked the chimney flue this way would get huge blooms on the faces of the stack. Many would call a roofer because they thought that rain came in from the exterior stack.
...Ray.
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