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The box room/office in the new place has a massive hole in the lathe and plaster wall. Plus a load of cracking by the window. I am imagining it will look similar to the above once I start pulling the liner paper off. But fully prepared. It is going to be my "how hard can plastering be?" practice room.
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The other side of the room looks a lot better, and I would still be up for doing it myself, but if I've got someone coming in anyway then there's little point as it shouldn't take a pro very long to do a small area like the attached.
My walls are, as they say (in Scotland at least) "plastered on the hard" i.e. directly to the brickwork. Plastering onto laths seems like it would be much trickier. Good luck!
Cupcakes
Decided to clean up (with the delicate use of a cold chisel) the edges of a small area of plaster that needed patching behind our sink. Lots of it came off. It wasn't bonded very well. Now its no longer a small patching job :/