Ready to hire?

Post your job in minutes, browse real reviews and choose who to speak to.Post a job

Need some tips or advice?

Painting & Decorating

Painting walls after electrician

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.22 PM

I had an electrician make channels in my wall to put in new sockets. Our wall is currently lined with paper. There are channels about 10cm wide across the wall and he has filled in the spaces with plaster so it is fairly flat. Can I just paint over the new plaster? Do I need to re-do the paper for the whole wall? I have no idea what to do! I just want it to look neat for a year as we're going to take the paper down and re-do the walls completely at a later date. Thanks!

Are you a tradesperson and able to answer this question?

2 Answers

MB Property Maintenance

Rating: 4.9 out of 5

Wilmslow

The Texture of the paper will always look different You need to remove all the paper to just that wall Sand down plaster and fine fill the joint Then re-paper the whole wall again for the Best Result

Answered20 August 2016

Alan Bohan Painting

Rating: 5 out of 5

Nottingham

If you require a temporary measure until you strip paper at a later date, then sand any jagged edges of the paper down, then on top of the existing plaster patching apply 2 coats of Gyproc easy fill, it's a 2 coat system which dries in a couple of hours and can be purchased from major did stores in 5 and 10 kg bags. Remember to lightly rub down between coats and feather in to existing wall area when filling complete.

Answered1 April 2017