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Firstly there are lots of consideration to make before diving to something like this the main one being ‘How deep are your pockets?’ most people can answer that with ‘not very deep’ which is why people do stuff like this themselves because its not rocket science
1) Depending on how bad the walls are:
Firstly I personally wouldn’t use plaster board again if my life depended on it because the boards still need plastering. I’d use
Femacell which is with this stuff you board it up onto the wall then pain straight onto it. (info for installation
http://www.borpin.co.uk/sbfaq/faq51078.htm Co
http://www.fermacell.co.uk/home.html) The only disadvantage I see about this stuff is cost…. It aint cheap because its imported. But that’s going to change soon.
LaFarge do something very similar as well
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http://www.lafargeplasterboard.co.uk) in both cases you get a perfect finish without having to be an expert.
2) Don’t use aqua panel use wedi board it is BBA ( British Board of Agrement approved
http://www.bbacerts.co.uk/frames.html ) is waterproof, lighter easier to install and cheaper (http://wedi.co.uk/). Its so strong you can actually build supports from it!
trust me by using these products it’ll make life easier.. There’s so many products out there to make life easy and yet people stick to the same old products like sheep.
I’m a plumber and refuse to install using copper anymore. I use Rehau, Unipipe, Geberit. At least by using these I can give my customers a 30 yr guarantee an know I wont be called back unless something more than serious goes wrong. E.g. nail through a pipe.
If there a piece of technology out there to make my life easy I’ll use it
