- Testing the plaster for alkalinity.
- Checking Moisture Levels on the Surface
- Walls were stripped because the painter did not check if the sealer actually bound the outer layer of plaster
- Polished or Burnished Walls
- Cement Rendered Walls
- Moisture Meter checking moisture below the surface level
- Testing White-set for Incoherence and Surface Powder
- Semi Quantitative Test for Hardness
- Sealer applied too thin
- Efflorescence can appear as a white fluffy substance
- 14 Year old whiteset plaster. pH is still 13. Cracks indicate plasterer did not sufficiently wet background.
- Plasterer had no idea when he patched the white-set with plasterboard topping compound
- White-set plaster is only 1mm thick. How can the plasterer justify he has carried out his work in a proper and proficient manner?









