Transform brick walls with professional plastering to add a touch of sophistication and elegance to your home. Plastering hides imperfection, insulates a surface, and gives it a smooth, paint-ready surface that can also be painted the required colour and shade that blends with home décor.
Benefits of Plastering Brick Walls
- Conceals imperfections: Stuccoing covers shrinkage joints and other imperfections found in brickwork to give an aesthetically pleasing and smooth facade.
- Enhances insulation: The plaster layer also provides additional insulation to your home and regulates the amount of heat imported into it, lowering your bills.
- Creates a smooth surface: It is an easy-to-apply solution perfect for painting or applying wallpaper directly onto the wall in a style of your choice.
- Adds durability: Painted plaster is also long-lasting. It helps brick walls avoid dampness, mould, and other disrupting impacts and, as a result, increases their lifespan.
How to Plaster Brick Walls
- Prepare the surface: Use a brush and water to wash the space of dust present on the brick wall proper to clean the brick wall. It is necessary to fix all the cracks or holes in the wall with some suitable material that can perfectly fit the wall.
- Apply undercoat plaster: Using a trowel spread and undercoat plaster thinly on the wall, particularly on the brick surfaces, so that it is uniformly distributed all over the wall.
- Apply topcoat plaster: When the undercoating plaster is dry, spread another layer of topcoat plaster to the desired thickness using a finishing trowel. Gradually climb down the mounting to polish the surface as much as possible.
- Let dry: When the plaster is done, the painting or wallpaper should only be applied once it has dried up.
Conclusion
Brick walls are a sound method of beautifying the outer side of your house while enhancing its strength and heat resistance. To achieve this, you can improve interiors with brick wall plastering, adding a smooth, durable finish that elevates the overall look. If you are patient enough or need professional assistance, following these steps will help you achieve a beautiful and long-lasting plaster finish for your old brick walls.
