Top 5 Renovation Mistakes when renovating old buildings

Here are some common renovation mistakes done on old buildings that result in the failure of plastering or in a significantly shorter lifespan of the finishing and decoration.

If your building falls into any of these categories:

• it is older than 100-150 years
• it has solid walls
• the problems are on external walls
• the building had rising damp at any time
• there is visible salts efflorescence on the walls and/or plaster damage

you should seriously consider avoiding any of the practices discussed in this video (some of them borderline industry “bad practices”) and you should look into choosing an alternative option instead.