Problems with new skimming and plastering on walls and ceiling

[cuddly61]

The first week of October I had a plasterer skim my walls and ceiling and some plastering. It was taking him a day to do each wall it’s not a big room.
But about two weeks later during the drying out process there was pops and bangs some so loud it made me jump. I told him he said it was coming from from pipes I knew it wasn’t.
So I let it dry out naturally only opening the window that’s when the pops and bangs got worse.
But I decided to do the water down emulsion then emulsion it all. It couldn’t be seen until I applied the emulsion and it dried.
It’s awful all these humps and uneven on my walls even on a new bit of plasterboard above the fireplace.
My house was built in 1951 but the walls look a lot worse now than before.
So how do I approach this with the plasterer ? He charged me approx £600 . Even the ceiling is humps and bumps.
Any advice please ?

He sounds very slow. When I had walls and ceilings replastered from memory I think one average sized room took a day. A day for one wall sounds very slow. And £600 for a room sounds a lot too. But then if it took him 5 days!..

I would contact him and ask him to come round and look at the finish and give him the opportunity to rectify the problem. Or to give you your money back so you can get someone else to fix what he has done.

If he won't for round or answer your calls etc you could take him to the small claims court. Have you got evidence of what you agreed and what you paid? Make sure you take pictures of the walls.

The new plaster has had a chemical reaction with whatever was underneath it I suspect. You need another plasterer to take a look at it to diagnose the problem. Your plasterer was way too slow by the way.

sadly, s/he doesn't seem to have been very good. IMO a person who is not capable of doing a good job won't be any better if they come back and have another go.

Personal recommendation is best, by someone who will show your their recent work and chat about how long it took.

Adverts on a website where people pay to be listed and can edit out unfavourable reviews may not be the worst source, but I don't know a worse one.

Thank you for your replies he came round and agreed it was unacceptable and he had never seen plaster go like it and is going to put it right.sadly my dad passed away later that day and the chap is waiting for when I have time for him to come and start work,