How long on average is everyone who is finishing their builds currently in winter waiting from plaster to paint? I've heard 6 weeks to let the plaster dry but given it is the middle of winter is this long enough?
Also any painter recommendations in Perth central/NOR?
And any recommendations for skirting board installers?
Painting plaster
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When I built my first house (40 years ago) the recommended time was 12 months. I did not wait and had hairline cracks appear (looking a bit like crazy paving) as the plaster shrunk so I completely repainted again after 2 years.
Possibly today's paints are more flexible.
Possibly today's paints are more flexible.
If you are talking hard set plaster on brick walls as opposed to plasterboard then yeah you should wait a fair amount of time. If the bricks at any time during your build got wet then that can take a fair while to dry out let alone all the wet mortar the brickies used then the renderers who usually give the walls a good drink before they start to render.
If it was summertime it'd be a different story.
Stewie
If it was summertime it'd be a different story.
Stewie
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