Hi All
We viewed a house today as possible purchase and as far as I could tell many of the walls were dry lined. Now it was my understanding that such dry lining was "stable" and other than painting required very little maintenance or renewal is ever needed.
However, I was surprised to see some of the joint lines/areas noticably proud as if the tape used to cover and seal the joint had failed because the edges of the platerboard panels had expanded. I can not think how else to describe it but what could be the cause of "effect" and how would one go about decorating with appropriate remedial action to make the walls totally smooth (again). The effect was not along the whole joint line just in places but at least once I think on every wall with no clear (external) cause.
Any feedback and pointers as to what would cause the effect and how to remedy it and if this is not simply a decorating problem who do I talk to for advice? I would hope to get as well informed as possible before we go the next step in our buying decision and have the cost of surveying to then tell us bad news
TIA
We viewed a house today as possible purchase and as far as I could tell many of the walls were dry lined. Now it was my understanding that such dry lining was "stable" and other than painting required very little maintenance or renewal is ever needed.
However, I was surprised to see some of the joint lines/areas noticably proud as if the tape used to cover and seal the joint had failed because the edges of the platerboard panels had expanded. I can not think how else to describe it but what could be the cause of "effect" and how would one go about decorating with appropriate remedial action to make the walls totally smooth (again). The effect was not along the whole joint line just in places but at least once I think on every wall with no clear (external) cause.
Any feedback and pointers as to what would cause the effect and how to remedy it and if this is not simply a decorating problem who do I talk to for advice? I would hope to get as well informed as possible before we go the next step in our buying decision and have the cost of surveying to then tell us bad news
TIA