Unfinished fireplace plastering
Our fireplace installer has skimmed the front of our chimney in the living room, but didn't skim the sides. The rest of the living room has been done a few weeks previously, but the on the advice of our plasterer chimney was left as it needed to be done in one go (corners required beading).
Are we going to have to get the whole chimney reskimmed when we get the sides skimmed due to the need for beading?
Many thanks
Chris
Advice from 20 local tradespeople
Hi Chris, ideally it should have been skimmed using beads but you could feather the corners in.
A skim bead is used to give a straight angle on corners a decent plasterer should be able to feather this into the chimney brest
No you can use stop beads.
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Yes you will need to skim the whole chimney again if you need beading on the sides
Yes a professional job will require the skimming of the whole Chimney.
yes it will all need to be re done with angle beads on first then skimmed
You could use stop beads in place of corner beads and would just need to put a little filler along the bead edge at the face of breast
Or use corner beads and either fill/skim just 3” in from the bead edge on the face of breast /feather in
You can just install one sided plaster beads on the the two sides. These are called thin coat bead stops.
Yes we have to reskimmed full chimney
Hi,your plasterer is right. You maybe should have got fire place done first. Let him fit his halve and work around it. If you have had the rest of the room plastered you will always notice its not been done. I think get him back and plaster it. Stove fitters only go to a point of fire place
hi chris you can bead it and easy fill up the side of the return thats has aleady been plastered making sure it picks the bead up on this side plaster the face rub it down all back to normal but thats for big walls really so it would be quicker to just plaster the sides as well again mate
Ideally to make the best possible job you’d have to set the new corner beads on and have the whole lot reskimmed , not a massive job.
It will look properly done, been plastered in full
No it can be patched in with out the need of a full skim as long as your happy with that
Yes the beading should have gone on when the front of the chimney was skimmed. So beading on and skim the full breast
everything should be done in one go, you must not leave the customer with an additional problem
You can use stop beads for the side parts of the chimney breast and plaster these separate to the front. Would recommend putting normal standard angle beads on the corners and plaster the whole chimney breast as the finish on the corners will be much cleaner and sharper on the eye.
Sort answer. Yes. Corner beads need applying before any plaster is applied on chimney breast
A fire place should be plastered with a different kind of plaster to the rest of the room if fireplace is regularly used
If a bead has not been used yes you could have it plastered with no bead but the edge will not be a sharp edge and the longevity of the edge will be shorter
Yes unfortunately u will have to bead the edge to skim the sides meaning the bead will be over the fresh plaster on the front and u will have to skim the front as well as the sides
