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Temporary solution for exposed internal rubble wall

  • 01-10-2015 11:24am
    #1
    Pepe LeFrits
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    Looking for advice. I’ve just moved into a 1920s cottage with walls constructed of a small rubble/mortar mix, which look like they’re coated in about 2cm of a fairly grainy cement. While attempting to strip off 90 years’ worth of wallpaper some of the plaster and the cement covering has come off over the fireplace, leaving the mortar/rubble mix exposed. The rubble is extremely crumbly and the cement coating is pretty brittle in the same area also.

    Early next year I will be getting in a builder to completely renovate the entire cottage so I’m looking for advice on how to best deal with the problem area in the meantime. Should I leave it exposed or attempt to plaster over it? I’m concerned the rubble isn’t very solid for plastering, and if the builder has to remove the plaster next year anyway, it’ll end up pulling even more of the wall off…


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  • #2
    DublinDilbert
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    Can you take some pictures?

    You'll need to remove any loose mortar or material. Then coat in PVA to stabilise the material and plaster back up with patching plaster or if its very big bonding followed by patching plaster.


  • #3
    rolliepoley
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    Get the walls injected first before you cover any of them.


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