Hi all,
I'm new to this site, I've been having a read of the different topics over the last few days, extremely useful! I've recently bought a house that needs loads of work doing to it, we've stripped it bare. We had a builder in to do some work for us, he was great and would definitely use him again. However, he has unearthed some problems which needed fixing and so our budget for improvement has ran dry! This means that I've been doing a lot of the work myself, including having a crack at skim plastering.
I did loads of research into the different methods and how to prepare the walls first. I've done the 3 bedrooms so far. The first wall was flat but not very smooth (luckily we're papering over that one!) but each wall has got better and better. The last room I did was pretty good, although not to professional standards.
My next job is to convert an outside toilet into a utility area, which will just be where we put the washing machine. At the moment it's a bare concrete floor, the walls are painted bricks and some of the paint at the bottom is flaking off. My plan is to plasterboard the walls, leaving a 15mm gap at the bottom to allow it all to breath, and then skim over the top (although I've been reading some of the threads on here about taping and bonding, so I may look into that). Now, should I attach a batten frame and board on top of that, or should I just dot dab straight onto the bricks?
Any tips for this job would be really appreciated.
I'm new to this site, I've been having a read of the different topics over the last few days, extremely useful! I've recently bought a house that needs loads of work doing to it, we've stripped it bare. We had a builder in to do some work for us, he was great and would definitely use him again. However, he has unearthed some problems which needed fixing and so our budget for improvement has ran dry! This means that I've been doing a lot of the work myself, including having a crack at skim plastering.
I did loads of research into the different methods and how to prepare the walls first. I've done the 3 bedrooms so far. The first wall was flat but not very smooth (luckily we're papering over that one!) but each wall has got better and better. The last room I did was pretty good, although not to professional standards.
My next job is to convert an outside toilet into a utility area, which will just be where we put the washing machine. At the moment it's a bare concrete floor, the walls are painted bricks and some of the paint at the bottom is flaking off. My plan is to plasterboard the walls, leaving a 15mm gap at the bottom to allow it all to breath, and then skim over the top (although I've been reading some of the threads on here about taping and bonding, so I may look into that). Now, should I attach a batten frame and board on top of that, or should I just dot dab straight onto the bricks?
Any tips for this job would be really appreciated.
) If its water coming in from outside(I assume the wall is single brick thick?) then it may mean finding out where the water is coming from and address the problem. It might be an idea to paint some syntapruf up the wall where it meets the floor and along the floor about 6 inches just to form a seal between both. I would leave a gap between boards and floor of about 30-40 mm, You can dot and dab straight on to the wall by taking all the flakey paint off and maybe grinding diamond shapes on the wall for an extra key. Good Luck....Just a thought ..If you wanted to put skirting around you could put some DPC between boards and battens (About 6") and let it overlap on to the floor (2") and put your skirting on top.
