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@absurdbird Do you know what a rough cost would be to take it all back to brick and replaster? It's a hallway wall in a victorian terrace house.
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Would be useful to know the sq. meters involved.
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Taking it back to brick at least a few days for one person with a scutch comb SDS attachment.
Then there's the cost of disposal.
From the look of it, it will be lime plaster, which is a magnitude more pleasant than stripping gypsum to brick.
How would you have it re-plastered? With lime would be the purist way (ask @Señor_Bear about that), and likely the priciest, gypsum to brick is doable, or you could dot & dab tapered boards and just paint / paper them for cheap & effective.
Also what @absurdbird wrote - why bother? If it's in reasonable nick, just skim it.
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The entire hallway?
Put up a pic and dimensions.I would avoid stripping back to the bricks unless the plaster is blown. Especially as you’re living in the house. I’ve stripped lime plaster walls down to brick/studs and lath and the dust goes everywhere - I once had a room I was trying to keep clean with gaffer tape around the door and a poly sheet over that, the dust traveled under the floor and up through the floorboards and coated everything.
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Hall, stairs and landing in my 60's 3 bed semi cost just under £500 before Christmas to skim coat over the old plaster. Ripping old and starting with bond coats won't be cheap.
Airhead
NotThamesWater
absurdbird
Grumpy_Git
Unlucky. That's a lot of work however you approach it. Time wise it would probably be better to strip the whole lot off plaster included and start again from bricks or stud with new plasterboard or render and plaster, that's what a builder would do.
Just estimating the alternative in time and materials and it's a lot. Is it possibly 'Artex' since that was used to cover all manner of problems.