I figured this was a more factual question - if it belongs in another forum, mods feel free to move!
I’ve recently purchased a house with my fiancee, and we’ve started the “tear out the ungodly horrible kitchen” process. Unfortunately, all the walls are plaster, and the cabinets came out with chunks of the wall…
We are planning on hiring someone to fix up the walls, but I’d like to know what we can do beforehand to make the walls cheaper/easier to fix for the poor guy/gal… the largest hole is only about 3 feet x 1 foot (where we had to tear off tiles).
What can we do to prepare?
Find out if the plasterer wants you to do anything first.
If it’s at all crumbly or dusty at the broken edges, it probably wouldn’t hurt to stabilise it all with a splash of watered-down PVA glue.
Are we talking plaster on brick, lath and plaster or stud and board?
This house was built in the 1920’s, so I just roughly assumed plaster on plaster until studs are reached!
I’ve chipped off anything funky until the base plaster is reached (you know, chipping off the nice white stuff until you get down to the funky grey). I’m not trying hard to chip off anything, I just want to make sure anything remaining is still actually hanging on. Most holes, like I said, are small, and just around things like nail holes and things that we’ve removed that have peeled off that initial plaster layer (like the idjits and their silicone caulk+glue shelving).
This is also all interior plaster.