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Plastering & Rendering

Lime plastering existing Lime

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.31 PM

I have a 2 bedroom Victorian purpose built flat, circa 1898. The walls are present are all lime mortar and some slight alterations in one of the rooms has been repaired with cement and gypsum, this is less than 20% of the total wall in one room, and less than 5% in another. One of the rooms has distemper on the walls also. Blown parts of the room have been hacked out in both rooms. My question is, can Natural Hydraulic lime (NHL2) be used to patch plaster the blown parts and then when evened out, skim the room? Is there any considerations I need to have?

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cw plastering & property maintenance

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Bedlington
if lime plaster is already on and a listed building. lime plaster will have to be used to reskim
Answered14 July 2020
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Chris flower

Rating: 5 out of 5
Devizes
Remove all cement/ gypsum plaster and replace with traditional lime plasters
Answered30 July 2020
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PSA PLASTERING LIMITED

Rating: 5 out of 5
Walsall
Replaster in limeplaster
Answered10 August 2020
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SAS Plastering

Rating: 5 out of 5
Ashford, Kent
You will have to get rid of all the cement/gypsum plaster, then replace with lime in the patches you can get a sealer to seal all the walls then re skim the entire room in a lime putty plaster
Answered11 August 2020
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Anonymous user

yes you can use an nhl2 for making good the backing coat. a 3:1 mix should suffice (sharp sand:lime). It is recommended to use a lime finish plaster with 70%+ minimum pure lime content to finish the areas required. hope that helps
Answered3 January 2022
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