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Originally Posted by Voodooman
Anyone on here is or knows a professional plasterer/painter? Got a small room in the house that is being converted to an office, and currently has a stippled ceiling and couple of walls (old house, so still some plaster/lathe walls) that I want smoothed out, and then repainted.
I think the ceiling can be scraped, but for the walls, the better solution would seem to be to just plaster over the existing, create a new smooth surface and paint that. In any case, work that is far more of a PITA than I am willing to personally undertake, and will happily hire someone for.
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To directly answer your question, no, at least no in Calgary.
But to comment on it: It was far easier and cheaper for us to put up drywall on the ceiling than to scrape. Scraping won't necessarily get a smooth surface, and it can take a lot of time. Our contractor was able to quickly bang out the drywall, and have it ready to go. Less mess, less fuss, looks great.
Could be the same thing for the walls. For the sake of 1/2 inch, the time and energy it would take to put up some new drywall over the old stuff could save a lot of headache.
But, I don't know the size of the room, or how feasible that would be.