I may as well have just wallpapered in the first place and saved a lot of money. He has suggested that the walls have lining paper on them and then repaint them. The decorator says no matter how careful the cracks are filled in you will always see some evidence of where the cracks were. Apply a second coat of patching plaster, feathering it out along the wall. I am wondering if anybody could give me an idea of what can be done. I was told it would take two weeks in total but has now gone past 3. I am absolutely gutted as it has taken over 3 weeks to get to this all done and we've had to stay out in a freezing cold conservatory while the work has been done. However, I'm not so happy about that because surely the plaster is mixed wrong and therefore going forward I am going to have problems. Everbuild’s One Strike Multi Purpose Filler is a product that is ready to use ‘out of the box’ and is ideal for beginners and DIYers. He spoke to his plasterer who is coming out to have a look tomorrow but whilst he was on the phone he asked to speak to me and said that he would fill in the cracks. As a preliminary step, apply plaster primer into and around the crack. Its bad enough to where if you run a putty knife over it, it will 'skip' unless you go fairly slowly. He says his plasterer has been plastering for 30yrs and this has never happened before. After filling the cracks and sanding smooth I skim coated the walls with joint compound as whoever did the plaster veneer in this house wasnt that good and there are a lot of small ripples in the surface of the plaster. The main chap of the company has just come to have a look and can't believe it. Now there aren't just a couple of cracks it is like crazy paving. The hall stairs and landing appear to be ok, but they were plastered a couple days after the front room so they may yet appear. Mix up plaster according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Brush in a PVA mix to give the plaster the best possible chance of bonding with the existing wall. Today, when the decorator came to finish off the job we noticed that the walls have started to get fine lined cracks in them. First remove any loose chunks of plaster use a hammer and chisel if necessary then vacuum out the area to get rid of the dust and debris. My front room walls along with the hall, stairs and landing have just been skimmed and now painted by a local firm.

Cracks on plaster walls