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Cracking plaster
Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.21 PM
My kitchen has suddenly starting cracking in the walls and the ceiling not in one place on all walls, the cracks are getting bigger and are not just in one place. I believe it’s been plastered back in June this year. Now I don’t know if I’m panicking over something small or something serious is wrong. I’m a first time buyer and everything seems to be going wrong at once. These aren’t isolated cracks they’re on every wall. Any advice on what or who I need to contact?
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C COPE DECORATORS
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Hi there, first of all don't panick there is always a solution, did you have the house serveyed to see footings are solid & not causing subsidence?
Answered2 February 2019
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PK Plastering Ltd
Rating: 4.9 out of 5
If it has been reskimmed over old walls and cieling. The weight of the new plaster is likely to be pulling the old already decintigrating plaster away, which is causing the cracks. The cieling should have been reboarded not just reskimmed. This is what I tell all of my customers as skimming over artex or old cieling cannot be guaranteed due to not knowing what condition the old cieling is like underneath the artex. As for the walls if the blown plaster is just reskimmed over cracks will ALWAYS appear after!
Answered2 February 2019
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Timothy David Interiors
Rating: 5 out of 5
What age is your house? If its old enough to have been finished in lime plaster and it was that that was skimmed over with gypsum plaster, then what you are experiencing is all too common. I come across it all the time. Its possible to rectify to a certain level with re-decoration. If you would like me to elaborate then edit you Q.
Answered2 February 2019
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TGS Design and Build Ltd
Rating: 5 out of 5
The plaster is applied without preparing the background surface, the surface have oil and greasy spots or the joints in masonry are not raked properly, etc
Answered6 February 2019
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pickering plastering
Rating: 5 out of 5
hi
you need to check the exterior of the walls that are cracking if the joints between the bricks look like new then their may be a sub sidence problem
Answered14 February 2019
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