Any DIY'S here - plaster advice needed.

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    Every room in my new house, except bathroom and my bedroom, have been papered with lining paper. I started stripping it off in the smallest room, expecting to find more than 1 layer of paper and the walls not in great shape. There is 4 layers of paper in this room:gaah:, top layer came of quite easily, remaining layers all stuck together and coming off in small pieces. Been working on the longest wall and around window area.The plaster is also coming with the paper, lots of it. Most of plaster has now parted company with the walls ( assuming other 2 walls will be the same) :hate-shocked::dunno:. The solution would be to replaster the walls, but I don't have the budget to do this and bearing in mind all the other papered walls in the house could well be in same state. I'm not sure how to proceed now as wasn't expecting to lose so much plaster off the walls. Anyone got any advice, please?
     
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    Depending on how big the areas are you can use polyfilla or similar. You can buy skimming plaster in a big tub. You might end up with it looking worse if you've never done anything like this before.

    A big skimming blade will be a worthwhile investment, but I'd have a go first on smaller patches. to see how you get on.

    I taught myself to plaster years ago from DVDs but it's something that needs a lot of practice and energy, I started on areas that were going to be hidden by kitchen units.
     
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    I would leave the lining paper on, that's what I do here in older parts of the house. The old plaster underneath has lots of micro cracks. Lining paper painted it looks fine to me. It's been put on for that kind of reason in your place, to hide issues I guess.
     
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      I never touch plastering myself.
      It can look really bad if you get it wrong. :biggrin:
       
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        Can you say what depth of plaster is coming off, just a mm or two or 10mm+ ?

        A picture of the whole stripped wall plus a close up of a small section would help.

        Are the walls solid brick etc or stud partitions, the latter just sound hollow if you knock on them.
         
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