r/Plastering • u/Maverick8492 • 2d ago
Help/advice needed
Well I found this lovely surprise when taking off painted over wall paper on my lathe and plaster walls. There is a gap from the top of the Cieling all the way to the top of the chair rail.
It looks like POs attempted to fix this several times, but it did not work. I found original plaster wall, some sort of glued on backing board, repair plaster, glued on drywall (16th of in or less?), wallpaper, and paint.
Fixing this is a bit mind blowing for me and daunting. Took my motivation for the project and yeeted it out the window.
Any advice and help would be appreciated. I did find mold and will be properly doing the abatement for that.
Ps. Veteran with TBIs and the lovely spicy sprinkle of ptsd. I'm just trying to finish this project without raging at a inanimate wall and having the local authorities show up at my door lol.
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u/fantazmagoricle 2d ago
Is it an external wall adjoining a stud or block/brick wall? My ex partners daughter bought her first house and found the same under the bedrooms wallpaper on the wall separating the 2 bedrooms in the corner up to the houses face. Had it surveyed for anything structural but was passed to be safe. Still i used helibars to tie the brickwork and filled the crack (which was ceiling down to the floorboards) using bonding plaster as the room was having a re-skim. I'm a plasterer so it wasn't nothing for me to sort on my own once we'd had the surveyor in.
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u/Maverick8492 2d ago
It's an old external wall to a screened porch (renovated in 1920s) to now an internal wall. We do know it's load bearing and have to keep it. This will be my first crack at plastering....so I'm gonna see how well this goes before I lose my stuff at it lol
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u/Specific_Algae_4367 2d ago
Have the nasty bugs all crawled out yet?