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Moving on.. I removed some tiles that formed a shitty looking splashback in my kitchen. A lot of plaster came off too and all in all my kitchen wall now looks rougher than your mum after a sweaty session with Starfish and Coffee.
Any advice appreciated as to how to move on from here. It seems to me the options here are filler, masonry filler or then there is mult-coat plaster. Or a combination of these. I've never used masonry filler before mind you. I would like this wall perfectly smooth and flat as I am considering gluing a glass splashback to it.
I am especially clueless as to what I need to do about the weird holes around the backboxes/electrical fittings.
Then there is my pipework boxed in with aquapanel. The aquapanel was awful to work with so it crumbled in places and there are gaps here and there. It seems I will have to use masonry filler before applying scrimtape? Then thin layer of plaster on top of that again?
Or should I consider paying a plasterer to come in? The area is only 3 - 4 sqm how – much would that cost? Is it realistic to hire someone to only do 'touch up' plastering, seeing as the wall above the affected area is perfectly fine.