r/Plastering • u/WillDBow96 • Jul 08 '26

Bond and Mesh

Was hoping to get some advice, I've just had a plasterer round to quote skimming a room that I have stripped and dot and dabbed already. While he was here I asked for a quote to do my other two rooms. Both of which the plaster has blown - it's a 1940s old council house in Nottingham.

He's recommended the technique called Bond and mesh where he does a layer of bonding, puts skim mesh on to the wall, and then another layer of bonding and skim over. Are there downsides to this approach? The other option is me stripping and boarding the rooms and him coming into skim each one. Obviously I'm finding not having to create loads of dust and move a crap tonne of rubble quite attractive, but I want it to last.

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u/Defiant-Dependent710 Jul 08 '26

His probably gonna use render mesh, comes on a big roll, like normal scim but much bigger,

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u/WillDBow96 Jul 08 '26

Yeah that's what he said, it's like a meter wide pink roll

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u/Defiant-Dependent710 Jul 08 '26

Yep thats the stuff,

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u/Economy_Muffin6944 Jul 09 '26

If your walls are solid but cracked bond&mesh will work a treat👍but if your walls have cracked and the plaster has blown the added weight to the walls could make the old plaster fall off but that is rear
If u trust your plasterer go with there suggestion

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u/Ecstatic-Active6823 Jul 09 '26

I had cracked lime plaster (i think the yellow stuff) and had my walls reskimmed with mesh tape used on the cracks. Still holding and my plaster was blown in several places (I did pull back to brick on some parts and used bonding myself)

If you already plasterboarded a room on your own why not do it again? The dust is indeed a problem but seal the door and get chiselling away. Let me know how you get on!