Is it really so awful to put wallpaper over cracked plaster?

[CherryTox]

I have an old house with some historic movement in one corner. It’s nothing to be worried about but the house does move with the seasons.

On one wall in particular there’s a big plaster crack and some smaller ones. I’m desperate to decorate.

Thing is I don’t have the money to get a plasterer in to re-do the walls, but I don’t have the inclination either because I’m pretty sure it would just crack again over time. In the past I’ve polyfilled it but it reappears six months later!

Would it really be so bad to sand back and fill as much as I can and then to (literally!) paper over the cracks?

We have lining paper over ours so we can just paint that. Hides the cracks brilliantly and saves us constantly having to scrape out & refill. It’s fine. We’ve always lived in old houses with loads of cracks but no structural issues. Always papered over them.

Oh this is a relief!

Do you use the thicker lining paper like Walldoctor or do you find the normal lining paper say 1200gsm is ok?

We have wallpapered over ours. We used thick lining paper then wallpaper over the top after filling the cracks. You wouldn’t know they were there now.

Super!

Wallrock Fibre Liner (after some lining paper research ... rock n' roll) is my lining paper of choice. Comes in various widths and thickness.