Touching up plaster

kelbal

Hi guys.
I've ripped down old tiles in the kitchen and will be putting up new ones. After taking down the old tiles, some of the old tile adhesive came away easily enough with a chisel scrape, leaving the smooth plaster underneath, like this....



However in many other spots, the skim plaster coat came away with the tiles adhesive, leaving the rougher bond coat exposed, like this..



Can you advise please if this rougher exposed surface can be skim coated over easily again so that I can tile it - or will it all have to come back to brick to be redone fully? The tiling is only 50cm up from the counter top, there's a whole lot more wall besides, and I really don't want to have to contemplate going near the rest of it.

Thanks

Dublin City Handyman

I'd bond out the rest of the wall first and then skim.. If you think you can do it yourself, bonding is a bit more for giving then skimming.. You can tile over the bonding.