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Plaster interior brick chinmey breast
Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.02 PM
I'd like to plaster and paint over my fireplace chimney breast on the ground floor. It's exposed brickwork and not sure the best way to go about it. It will be used as an open fire, not a wood burning stove. YouTube videos seem to suggest a lime render with beads on the corners and then plaster over that and then paint it. Struggling to find the best direction online, please advice Thanks
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Anonymous user
As you have found online, starting with a lime render would provide the required heat protection required on an in use chimney breast. The lime in the render allows it expand and contract with the heat stopping it from cracking and falling off.
You can then just use normal plaster and 99% of the time this works fine. The other, more reliable, solution is to finish with a heat resistant plaster. If your going to use it as an open fire I would probably go down this route. It's a little more expensive but we'll worth the peace of mind.
Answered15 June 2019
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Johnstone Plastering
Rating: 5 out of 5
I personally would use sand and a heat resistant cement. Once lime gets hot it has the potential to crack as it needs to breath, therefore could fall away.
Answered17 June 2019
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Anonymous user
Just dot an dab plaster board and skim it would be alot easier and quicker.
Answered15 June 2019
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CC Plastering Systems
Rating: 5 out of 5
I would use a metal gypline system covered with fireline plasterboard, then skim. It's quick and clean
Answered21 June 2019
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