Hi all,
I've got a post up in painting and decorating called "papering over fibreboard" but, today i went back to have a second look and suggested reboarding the whole room. She asked if it was possible just to reboard the ceiling over the existing fibreboards. I said yes but have a couple of concerns.
It's an old council house with corrugated panels for the sides on the top half and roof, i've been told by someone who has one of these properties that the joist they used, which the fibreboard is attached to, are about an inch wide and 4 deep. Is that plenty of room to work with when screwing the plaster board in?
Secondly, where the ceiling meets the walls small batons are used for what i'm assuming is to give extra support for the fibreboards. If i remove these and reboard up, will i have problems when skimming. I.E. usually you use the plasterboard for the walls to push up to the ceiling plasterboard and give extra support, plus put skrim tape up to fill/catch the plaster for the internal gaps. Should i still use scrim tape? I'm papering over the walls so was thinking about using possibly easyfil to go over the scrim tape and sand down before papering. Or should i try the jointing tape technique once the plaster has dried???
Thanks in advance...D
I've got a post up in painting and decorating called "papering over fibreboard" but, today i went back to have a second look and suggested reboarding the whole room. She asked if it was possible just to reboard the ceiling over the existing fibreboards. I said yes but have a couple of concerns.
It's an old council house with corrugated panels for the sides on the top half and roof, i've been told by someone who has one of these properties that the joist they used, which the fibreboard is attached to, are about an inch wide and 4 deep. Is that plenty of room to work with when screwing the plaster board in?
Secondly, where the ceiling meets the walls small batons are used for what i'm assuming is to give extra support for the fibreboards. If i remove these and reboard up, will i have problems when skimming. I.E. usually you use the plasterboard for the walls to push up to the ceiling plasterboard and give extra support, plus put skrim tape up to fill/catch the plaster for the internal gaps. Should i still use scrim tape? I'm papering over the walls so was thinking about using possibly easyfil to go over the scrim tape and sand down before papering. Or should i try the jointing tape technique once the plaster has dried???
Thanks in advance...D