Old Kitchen Room to office - walls are bad

[BuggBairn]

Thoughts and opinions on how I should tidy up the walls of our former Kitchen?

This room no longer houses our cooking/eating activities, I've stripped most of it out and intend to convert it into a day room/office for my wife.

The walls are mostly brick with about 15mm plaster on surface. They have been well roughed up with cable runs and old tiling etc.

I intend to tidy up and relocate a lot of the sockets.

Should I
1. relocate sockets/switches then have the whole lot skimmed

2. Do electrical work then dot + dab plasterboard all over the offending mess

3. Consider something else?

 

[23vc]

If the plaster is sound after you remove wallpaper and scrape off tile adhesive, then it can be skimmed, after filling out with bonding.
Or as you say, you could just dab over the lot.
Both perfectly valid, but yeah do all the leccy first.

 

[OwainDIYer]

1.

Plasterers are pretty cheap.

 

[bobasd]

start by doing first fix elec - follow the Safe Zones for your runs, no diagonals, best practice is to use metal channels.
stay away from D&D'ing - it can cause various knock-on problems.
dub out - ie fill dints
scrape and maybe belt-sand down high spots, remove all paper.
and then PVA prime, and skim.