Can I paint over messy plaster splatter?

[SpidersAreShitheads]

Two years into the renovation, we’ve finally had DD’s bedroom ceiling skimmed. I’m going to paint the ceiling, and then the walls.

However, the plastering job was really messy. Her walls are covered in plaster splatter.

My question is can I just paint over it? Any thick/raised splatters I’m scraping off. But what about the watery splatters? Could I just paint over with white new plaster paint (which I have bucketloads of!) and then paint as normal (she wants her room green).

I started off thinking I could just give it a quick wipe but it’s taking a LOT of scrubbing. If I have to scrub all this off first it’s going to take a couple of days, no exaggeration. I’m knackered already 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Any experience with this? In every other room we’ve had walls and ceiling plastered together but for various reasons in DD’s room it was just the ceiling - I’ve got no idea if this is a normal amount of mess for a plastered ceiling 🤷‍♀️

Thanks v.much!

ps - photos to show what I mean - it’s worse at the top but the splatters go all the way down the full wall…

Oh, also - some of those photos were taken when the plaster was still drying out. It’s now all properly dried.

The plasterer said to wait til it was dry to clean it off but it’s impossible to get off the walls without serious scrubbing - and even then it’s still faintly visible…..

Blimey, what a mess. No idea but why on Earth didn’t they sheet the walls??? If it’s not a hard splodge I guess it’ll be no different to painting over dark paint but might need a few coats?

Run the flat of your hand over them and use a sheet of sandpaper to lightly sand back any that feel raised.

Try using one of those silver pan scrubs
think a lot of that will wash off then you can concentrate on the worst bits

I'm guessing he meant wait till it's dry then sand it off, as if washing it surely it would be easier whilst wet before it's set?

What a mess. If smooth it will be fine to paint on, although might show though if a light colour. As previous poster said try using a fine sander or even a sanding block and just lightly go over.

We had some of this when we put up a stud in an old room - I actually had quite good success with just a cloth and water once it was dried. I assume you’ve tried that though, otherwise as others said lightly sand any lumpy bits or scrape off with a glass cleaner - I find it usually comes away easily. Will be easier to paint the more you get off

I would give the whole lot a light sand when dry then vacuum up all the dust, walls and floor.

What a mess! We had ceilings plastered and he cleaned as he went. We had wallpaper up and it was absolutely fine when he finished, we didn’t need to clean or repaint anything. I wouldn’t be happy with that at all.

Watery splatters are fine to paint over.

Snap. This has just happened to us. They also caked my little wooden stool, and a couple of obviously not meant to still be in there items with plaster. Then managed to throw away a whole set of keys to that room plus the front and back of the house.

Mess aside, they did a good job with the roof. But fucking hell. I'm disabled and can't fix this myself, I took one look and went inside trying not to cry because the job has been paid for for us, because we are too poor to fix out house ourselves.

I don't understand how they haven't been taught to take more care. Specially with stuff. And the doors and windows are the same.

I am mostly papering. I'm hoping some friends can help sand down anything which isn't flat.

Just sand over it so it's smooth.

Ye God's that is a shocking job. This is DD's room after the ceiling had been reskimmed. To be fair DP is a plasterer but all of his work is like this.

We have an excellent plasterer and his work is like this too. Shocked by some of the other examples!
Good tradespeople are hard to find though. The plasterer is the only decent one we have

Unfortunately those walls should have been cleaned while they were still wet. Now they need a good sanding. Anything that is left and not sanded completely smooth will show up in the next coats and will not be hidden under numerous coats of paint. Sanding it now before doing anything else will give the best results.