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Advice on plaster drying
Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.09 PM
We moved into our old Victorian house a couple of years ago, and the survey alerted us the rendering of part of the house needed redoing. Whenever we repainted the wallpaper, damp would come through on a central strip, corresponding with the blown plaster on the outside wall. We finally got around to affording it this summer, got builders in to take of blown rendering (tapped it and it was hollow underneath) and they did a job, although there's probably still a little strip that sounds hollow (about 6 inches by 2 so minor really). We removed the wallpaper inside and let that dry out but didn't re-wallpaper or paint to let it 'breathe'. Ten days ago we got a plaster in to give it a coat of plastering as we are redecorating the room and were painting the walls. The bottom half and the top strip dried out within a couple of days, but the parts which used to come through the wallpaper as damp are still not dry. And for five days it's stayed exactly the same, in fact last night it rained and I swear it's a little darker again. Is it normal to take this long to dry, our whole room has been redecorated and I have this awful panel of wall which is orange and patchy. I wanted it nice for my family for Christmas. Also should we hire a dehumidifier do you think? Would that help?
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