I managed to ‘save’ this lime plaster ceiling in my house, which I had stripped the paper off in a fit of exuberance, only to discover cracks surrounding large areas, it was the cornice I wanted to keep really but a dead flat plasterboard ceiling would look all wrong.
I primed it heavily with SBR then stapled up glass fibre rendering scrim and skimmed over it.
It was an experiment but it’s been up 2 years and all seems solid.
I managed to ‘save’ this lime plaster ceiling in my house, which I had stripped the paper off in a fit of exuberance, only to discover cracks surrounding large areas, it was the cornice I wanted to keep really but a dead flat plasterboard ceiling would look all wrong.
I primed it heavily with SBR then stapled up glass fibre rendering scrim and skimmed over it.
It was an experiment but it’s been up 2 years and all seems solid.