Plastering advice

[stanwan]

Hi all,

I've got a plastering conundrum here. Owing to the order of works our plastering had to be done in 2 stages. The floor was levelled to fit a pocket door and then they would return to finish the works.

I did express concerns about the finish and how we would tie the two together given that we can't scrim the junctions.

Is there an easy way around this or should I consider some form of shadow gap bead to avoid tight junctions and the ensuing cracks?

[stanwan]

Apologies for the vagaries of the initial posting. To clarify, what needs to be done is to link in the recently plastered walls to the newly built stud walls that house our pocket doors.

Unfortunately tyne floors were not remotely level and our plaster insisted on completing most of the plastering work prior to levelling the floor. Now that the floor is level, we have installed the pocket doors and I'm cladding the stud work with plasterboard.

What struck me was the inability to scrim between the existing and abutting boards - from what I have read, feathering in is tricky and rarely successful and may lead to cracking. Is there an easy way to to deal with this scenario or should I consider maintaining a shadow gap instead?

pics as requested

[stanwan]

The soil pipe will go into a spare kitchen cupboard which will house a hideaway miniature loo. The little one can use it if the other loos are occupied

[stanwan]

wolfracesonic said:

Go on, I'll bite: the miniature loo is a leg pull, right?