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They need to get closer to the wall, they're 6cm away.

What's the solution to that? Battening it out to square and using plasterboard? If they square it with just plaster it'll still be drying next year.

If they moved the measure out of the way, they could put the level right up close

There's 3 solutions:

1. Dot and dab plasterboard and then skim
   
2. Use a traditional two coat plaster system, in this instance hardwall to level followed by skim coat.
   
3. Batten and plasterboard followed by skim.
   
   

Non of these will be exactly easy at present as there is a shortage of almost all gypsum plaster products. Also @Señor_Bear will likely need more than just one pallet of either undercoat plaster or dot and dab adhesive to do the job if that is an accurate sample of the walls.

Out of curiosity is the wall out of plumb or is there a belly in it?

Whoever did work in our place levelled the wall with cement, then skimmed with gypsum.

It was amazingly efficient at wicking water up from below the DPC that they also cemented across.

Also as an option 4. lime plaster (with horsehair, pozzolan and all of hat old-fashioned gubbins) then skim.

You’d hope it comes down mostly to the wall fixings/ quality of the steel. Nothing more annoying than fitting something that then wiggles loose. I nearly went vola but u-turned massively with this little number from Ikea - folded painted steel - blends into a white wall unless my wife buys coloured loo roll to fuck with me. Two screws so kids ain’t gonna pull it off. £2.

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Both. There's not many straight walls in the house

Same in my house all the internal walls are rendered. Make hanging pictures interesting.

The joys of renovating an old house.

Knock it down. Start again.
Live.
Love.
Laugh.

<£10 dunelm special

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Who wants a white bog anyway?

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Who wants a white bog anyway?

I find it provides the best contrast when painting my walls with shit.

I’d have thought a nice steel blue..

On the plus side, the cement mix they used was so badly mixed, there were softer patches...

Serious question; why bother making the walls vertical? I’ve never worked in a house with plum walls and right angled corners, it’s just part of old buildings. Why spend a grand and several days trying to make it perfect?

I have some shelves hanging perfectly level across the width of the room while the ~2.5m sideboard below visibly slopes away with the floor. It annoys me when I clock it but then all is well once I forget again.

Because furniture is usually square?

That's a massive swing for what looks like only half the height of the wall. Bookcase, chest of drawers, tv cabinet etc would never sit flush against the wall.

That would fuck me off every time I walked into the room.

I think it’s character. Old buildings are wonky, making them a forest of right angles and straight lines gives them a sterile air.

If you wanted new, buy new.

Here’s an angle that’s not right, just revealed by renovation work. Presumably whoever slept in the room straight ahead was fed up with someone stumbling into their room and peeing on them in the middle of the night.

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I'm guessing the carpet fitter was a mate who was doing them a favour so only used the 100mm off cuts of gripper rod he'd been saving over the course of a couple of months.

On the toololololols

I agree to a point. There’s furniture that works with wonky walls. And stuff that doesn’t like system shelving.

Whilst losing space...