Smooth rough plaster on interior walls
Now that you have lived with rough plaster as a wall covering in your interiors for a few years, it is time for changes again. You want to move away from the rough surfaces and back to smooth walls. However, to properly smooth the walls, you should prepare your interiors well.
Preparations for smoothing rough plaster
To smooth the rough plaster on your interior walls, you need a new layer of wall covering, which you apply over the existing plaster and then create smooth surfaces from it. Of course, this will result in a lot of dirt. You'll also need to touch the new wall covering somewhere, so there is a fair amount of work to be done before you can start smoothing your interior walls.
- To smooth the interior walls, you will apply a layer of special adhesive plaster to your existing rough plaster. Before doing this, however, you should ensure that all home furniture is removed from the affected rooms.
- If this is not possible because you do not have a storage space, you have to cover everything with protective film. Back the furniture As far as possible from the walls to be plastered.
- In the next step, lay out the floors of the affected rooms with tarpaulin that is as stable as possible. You can also use old carpets and other blankets.
- Make sure that your masonry bucket, which you need to mix the adhesive plaster, is on a covering material that is as thick as possible. Then you should still have all the light switches and sockets concerned walls Mask off completely before you can start mixing.
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Mix and apply the new wall covering
- If you want to smooth the rough plaster on your interior walls with adhesive plaster, you have to mix the adhesive plaster first. The same happens in your large masonry bucket, in which you then mix the ready-to-use plaster you bought at the hardware store with a little water to form a wall covering.
- To be able to pull off the walls well, screw long metal rails vertically to the walls. On each wall there are 4 or 5 rails that are screwed on with small screws. Since you will remove the adhesive plaster over these rails with a long aluminum batten, the rails should be about 1 cm high.
- Then apply the adhesive plaster to the walls with a trowel and pull it off with a long aluminum batten. Now remove the rails and also plaster the resulting joints with adhesive plaster. Then, when the plaster has tightened a little, rub all the walls with a damp rubbing board and your rough plaster walls are smoothed.
When mixing the adhesive plaster, you should make sure that it does not become too thin.
