odd question - is plastering safe in pg?

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and by plastering I mean walls/ceilings not arms/legs

Long story but we need the landing ceiling replastered, which apparently will create alot of dust (old house - potentially nasty things in old paster/dust???) and potential smells. I know there are certain fumes not safe in pg - does plaster smell much and is it safe to be around all this being done when 35/6 weeks pg?

Sense in message my annoyance as it's all DHs fault for putting his blooming leg through the ceiling when in the loft yesterday [anger]

I did small amounts of plastering in my first pregnancy, it never occurred to me that I shouldn't.

The dust is a bugger to clean up though.

Certainly get it done now before the baby is born. I wouldn't want to bring a new baby into a house that is still being plastered.

I hope so, we had our whole downstairs replastered before Christmas. Plaster doesn't really smell. There will be a lot of dust, though the people we had sealed off the floors to prevent them getting dusty, so that helped a lot. I was out during the day when the actual plastering was being done. The air is quite damp while it's drying out, but I don't think that's a problem.

Are you having the ceiling reskimmed or taken down and replastered? It's taking down the old plaster that's the really messy bit.
My advice is getting everything you can out of the hall and make sure all the doors are closed!

BTW, if you have it replastered at 35/6 weeks, won't you be having it decorated at around the time you're due? Are you ok with that?

mainly no, I'm not OK with that! I'm not OK with the whole thing tbh and I'm wondering if we can just live with a wooden board covering over the hole for a few years and then get it all done and decorated when it actually needs decorating. The last thing I want is more works going on here (just moved and had 2 weeks of putting up with works). I get really stressed easily and feel ill alot so I really just need peace and quiet. Apparently they will put plaster boards on top of existing ceiling and then plaster over, but it will then need painting and chances are it will look so crap with bits of plaster etc on walls that decorating will be required. Just feels like one thing after another . I guess at least the plaster doesn't smell too bad (still have strong pg nose and feel queasy alot with smells)