How soon after plastering can someone paint the repaired wall?
I advise clients not to paint a newly plastered surface for two to three weeks. What kind of paint is best to use on a plastered wall? An oil-based primer is best. Water based paints will work, but oil-based ones give a richer and smoother surface. If you’re going to take the time and expense to do the plaster right you should put on the finishing touch that will look the best and is the easiest to keep clean. Which one of your many jobs are you the proudest of? I did a 1795 house that had hand-cut lathes that were very jagged. The plaster was an inch and a half thick. I had to dig out parts of the plaster to do the repair. On another job, I replaced eighteen feet of plaster molding on a ceiling and twelve feet of a side wall on a half-timbered English Tudor country house. The house was originally constructed in the 1860s as a hunting lodge, and about fifty years later converted into a formal residence. An air conditioning system with a faulty overflow tray had caused water to come pou
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