Hello,
I wonder if anyone can help me...
I plan on separating a large bedroom by building a partition wall to create a smaller bedroom and separate home office. I plan on building this from timber and plasterboard. To keep costs down I plan on painting the plasterboard after it has been finished rather than having the whole thing plastered. I am fairly confident about building the actual wall and installing the plasterboard however I am a bit unsure what to do with the joints where the new wall will meet the old wall (left and right) and also the ceiling. In understand I need to use tape to reinforce the joints and I was planning on using easi-fill however will this not leave a slightly noticeable ‘raised’ area around the partition wall – even after sanding? Has anyone got any tips?
I was also planning on using tapered edge plasterboard. However after planning the whole thing I am only going to have 1 full tapered edge join – basically because of the size and also where I plan on installing the door. The other joints will be standard butt joints. Is it really worth using tapered edge board for the benefit of 1 joint – different if it was a full sized wall or ceiling I was doing?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Mark
I wonder if anyone can help me...
I plan on separating a large bedroom by building a partition wall to create a smaller bedroom and separate home office. I plan on building this from timber and plasterboard. To keep costs down I plan on painting the plasterboard after it has been finished rather than having the whole thing plastered. I am fairly confident about building the actual wall and installing the plasterboard however I am a bit unsure what to do with the joints where the new wall will meet the old wall (left and right) and also the ceiling. In understand I need to use tape to reinforce the joints and I was planning on using easi-fill however will this not leave a slightly noticeable ‘raised’ area around the partition wall – even after sanding? Has anyone got any tips?
I was also planning on using tapered edge plasterboard. However after planning the whole thing I am only going to have 1 full tapered edge join – basically because of the size and also where I plan on installing the door. The other joints will be standard butt joints. Is it really worth using tapered edge board for the benefit of 1 joint – different if it was a full sized wall or ceiling I was doing?
Any help would be much appreciated!
Mark