The happy home builder who built my house in the mid-seventies was a concrete worker and probably fulfilled his happiness when he could "plaster" the whole basement floor with concrete ala pizzeria...
She who decides is now quite tired of these walls and we need to do something about it. Simply filling is said not to be a good option as the walls are painted with plastic paint. Additionally, there's at most 10cm between the foundation and the bottom of the plaster.
I believe some walls are concrete and some are concrete blocks.
Does anyone have a better suggestion than going at it with a jackhammer?
She who decides is now quite tired of these walls and we need to do something about it. Simply filling is said not to be a good option as the walls are painted with plastic paint. Additionally, there's at most 10cm between the foundation and the bottom of the plaster.
I believe some walls are concrete and some are concrete blocks.
Does anyone have a better suggestion than going at it with a jackhammer?
I had the same problem with pizza väggar. Now I don't know what material our walls were made of. What I had to do was take a rasp and scrape off all the "peaks" on the walls. Then I used gipsputs to make it smooth. A heck of a job but it turns out well. You can paint, which we did, or put up väv or wallpaper.
Lucky you... My pizza stone oven has been constructed with plaster mortar = concrete!!!
This means more heavy-duty tools are required...
Someone mentioned the tool "concrete surface grinder," does anyone know if you can use one on a wall? Is it possible to use on a pizza surface? Can you handle 40 sqm?
This means more heavy-duty tools are required...
Someone mentioned the tool "concrete surface grinder," does anyone know if you can use one on a wall? Is it possible to use on a pizza surface? Can you handle 40 sqm?
Damn, now I feel old, what is pizzayta????
Excuse me... I thought it was generally accepted that walls painted with textured paint in all its patterns existed in every pizzeria in the early '80s. My problem is that I have a textured wall plastered in concrete with substantial textures, about 80-100mm difference between top and bottom.
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Apply gypsum plaster!
http://www.byggahus.se/forum/showthread.php?t=41105
Assuming the peaks are quite close together, I am sure it will work just fine, it doesn't matter what the quality of the plaster mortar is behind it or if it’s painted with plastic paint as long as the paint adheres well to the substrate and doesn't dissolve when it gets wet (prime in that case).
To check the strength, you can test with a knife tip
A-mortar / concrete - barely leaves a mark when scratched
B-mortar - requires some pressure to scrape a mark on the surface
C-mortar - offers some resistance but it is quite easy to drill the knife tip in
Don't know if that makes sense, but it was an attempt
Good luck!
http://www.byggahus.se/forum/showthread.php?t=41105
Assuming the peaks are quite close together, I am sure it will work just fine, it doesn't matter what the quality of the plaster mortar is behind it or if it’s painted with plastic paint as long as the paint adheres well to the substrate and doesn't dissolve when it gets wet (prime in that case).
To check the strength, you can test with a knife tip
A-mortar / concrete - barely leaves a mark when scratched
B-mortar - requires some pressure to scrape a mark on the surface
C-mortar - offers some resistance but it is quite easy to drill the knife tip in
Don't know if that makes sense, but it was an attempt
Good luck!