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    Cracking skimmed plaster without PVA

    Postby Bob DIY » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:24 pm

    I recently had my walls skimmed in my house and at the time took the advice NOT to use a pva on the wall. Instead I use a contract paint directly on the walls once the plaster had dried, then painted with a standard emulsion on top.

    It's now been a few months and the walls are really starting to crack up, and my question is how can I fix this and stop it from cracking any more? I have a flexi paint will that work?

    Many thanks in advance for you help.

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    Re: Cracking skimmed plaster without PVA

    Postby stoneyboy » Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:02 am

    Bob DIY,
    Either the plastering is defective - is it the paint or the plaster which is cracking,
    or if it is the paint layer you did not thin down the first coat sufficiently.
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    Re: Cracking skimmed plaster without PVA

    Postby Bob DIY » Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:45 am

    It differently the paster that's cracking
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    Re: Cracking skimmed plaster without PVA

    Postby Bob DIY » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:40 am

    It deffo not the paint that's cracking it's the plaster
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    Re: Cracking skimmed plaster without PVA

    Postby stoneyboy » Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:50 pm

    Bob DIY,
    Unless you have been playing a fan heater on the wall then the plastering is defective.
    Get the plasterer back.
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