What is the best way to fix plaster walls?
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If you are having limited success with scraping off the old paint, spackling and sanding, then priming and painting, you will have to get to the root of why your walls continue to crack. Is it a house settling issue? Is it a moisture issue?
Clean out the cracks by making them a little wider and deeper and scrape all areas of loose paint . The compound has to have something to grip to. If the cracks is really deep fill it in in stages.
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Once you figure out the reason for the continuing ope up of cracks on your wall and address those issues, there are repair screens for your plaster walls avaliable at the hardware store. The screens give the mud something to stick to and give some stability to the area to prevent the new mud from cracking.
Hope that helps
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To me plaster is an art, and even though I am fairly good at feathering in old with new, I called a true plaster master to fix for me, wasn't expensive.
No the best way is to deepen and widen the cracks If you use dry wall tape then you are looking at plastering over and evening out and unless you are good at it you will be frustrated. I only use drywall tape over seams on new dryboard-and It is hard to plaster over it and get it not to show when you paint
I'd go into the attic and see if there are any water marks, maybe running along a beam.
This may be a job for my husband. Don't like the attic.
Thanks for your help!
You are very welcome