Is there a plasterboard for outside walls?

[amigo]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently getting the garden sorted. One of the problems I have is that one of the garden walls is bottom half stone and top half breeze blocks

As you can imagine, the top breeze blocks half is pretty straight, whereas the bottom stone half is sticking out in many areas due to the uneven surface.

Now I want to render the whole wall, so are there any plasterboards that I can buy which can be used outside and are fine for all types of weather?

If you had to render the whole wall, how would you do it?

 

[amigo]

BUMP!

 

[John D v2.0]

I think you can get something called cement board, not sure how expensive it is but you can render it outside. Or just use loads of backing render.

 

[Alastairreid]

Render the blockwork and leave the stone exposed if its in decent condition.

 

[amigo]

The stone wall is in pretty bad condition to be honest, hence my reason to cover it up.

I'm just looking for a cheap solution and waa hoping there might be a special plasterboard for outside walls.

 

[Alastairreid]

The stonework can be meshed before rendering if need be.

 

[Happyplumber]

Plasterboard in it's nature is designed for internal use
If you want to skim outside you can use insulation and mesh thenrender over
Or use traditional sand and cement render

 

[amigo]

That's much appreciated guys. So in that case, it'll have to be a mesh.

Thanks again

 

[John D v2.0]

The stone wall is in pretty bad condition to be honest, hence my reason to cover it up.

I'm just looking for a cheap solution and waa hoping there might be a special plasterboard for outside walls.

Maybe you missed my earlier post http://www.insulationshop.co/aquapanel_exterior.html

 

[amigo]

My apologies john I most certainly did miss your post. My goodness the plasterboard is way too expensive, because I'd need around 40 square metres of plasterboard to cover it and that would be a whopping cost of approx £700. I'll still need to render over the plasterboard too.

 

[John D v2.0]

No worries! Yes I haven't looked into it in detail so that might not be the cheapest type but it does exist all the same!