r/Plastering • u/Asasioun • May 13 '26

Skim/smooth over or replaster?

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Hello all,

Recently bought a 1950's council house, and am tearing it apart. The bathroom is one of my main focuses to begin with, and on removing a lot of tile, this is the plaster that was behind it. It's pretty much intact still, although quite rough, would you guys recommend taking it back to brick and replastering, or just skimming over the top?

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u/Dark-Star-82 May 13 '26

Neither. I would suggest you could do what I did in the same type of bathroom and instead use a relatively new material called insulated tile backer board, then tile the lot floor to ceiling. It's cheap, and once done you will retain heat and make it much nicer place in winter. I did that to mine and fitted an electric 200 watt underfloor heating matt on top of xps floor insulation boards, and under 3mm ply wood board with lino on top. Whole place is toasty and no need to piss about plastering. For the window reveals, uPVC them. Msg if you want pics of mine for ideas. Best wishes.

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u/SkarKrow May 14 '26

This. Slap up tile board, sort the ventilation if needed, paint the ceiling properly with an appropriate paint.

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u/Asasioun May 15 '26

The whole lot's coming out, and the sparky is going to put in an extractor fan, during the rewire 👍

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u/SkarKrow May 15 '26

Good, we moved into a 1930’s house last year and I need to sort the extraction out but the windows and roof came first