Hi,
recently had the old backboiler ripped out (had the boiler and a gas heater/radiator part) from the lounge. It left behind a 45 x 72 cm gap in the sandstone coloured rugged surface decorative brickwork that covers the lower part of lounge wall. The right edge is smooth, the left edge has up to 1.5 cm variations as the rugged ends of the decorative bricks are there.
Now I'm a bit of a DIY novice and may end up on DIY Disasters on some TV channel... but... One thought I had (good or bad) was to go for something not permanent (so can be altered/removed for later redecoration without copious amounts of nuclear blasts...).
So would put a wood frame in the hole, with a vertical middle bit - then use two plasterboard panels, adjust them until reasonably match right and left edge, then join the middle (and have two small airvents in the bottom). One single panel would be a nightmare to fit and manipulate in that irregularly edge cavity with no access behind the board.
So the questions (apart from is all above insane?) would be:
- would feather edge plasterboard, with those edges in the middle be easier? and since it's small chunk, may get away with not so elaborate joining - would even Polyfilla work?
- possibly sand coloured textured paint could hide the joining imperfections ? haven't used latter but I imagine it is thick lumpy stuff that can be applied in a pretty 'random' fashion
- the rugged edge meeting the the plasterboard: any recommendation what to use as filler? again Polyfilla would be suitable enough? it's would be a 72 cm long vertical section and well, as long as it doesn't start cracking like mad... should be fine?
Many thanks for any thoughts (clearly other alternative is going for brickwork, which is then quite heavier adventure with more mess).
recently had the old backboiler ripped out (had the boiler and a gas heater/radiator part) from the lounge. It left behind a 45 x 72 cm gap in the sandstone coloured rugged surface decorative brickwork that covers the lower part of lounge wall. The right edge is smooth, the left edge has up to 1.5 cm variations as the rugged ends of the decorative bricks are there.
Now I'm a bit of a DIY novice and may end up on DIY Disasters on some TV channel... but... One thought I had (good or bad) was to go for something not permanent (so can be altered/removed for later redecoration without copious amounts of nuclear blasts...).
So would put a wood frame in the hole, with a vertical middle bit - then use two plasterboard panels, adjust them until reasonably match right and left edge, then join the middle (and have two small airvents in the bottom). One single panel would be a nightmare to fit and manipulate in that irregularly edge cavity with no access behind the board.
So the questions (apart from is all above insane?) would be:
- would feather edge plasterboard, with those edges in the middle be easier? and since it's small chunk, may get away with not so elaborate joining - would even Polyfilla work?
- possibly sand coloured textured paint could hide the joining imperfections ? haven't used latter but I imagine it is thick lumpy stuff that can be applied in a pretty 'random' fashion
- the rugged edge meeting the the plasterboard: any recommendation what to use as filler? again Polyfilla would be suitable enough? it's would be a 72 cm long vertical section and well, as long as it doesn't start cracking like mad... should be fine?
Many thanks for any thoughts (clearly other alternative is going for brickwork, which is then quite heavier adventure with more mess).
