Hi Everyone,
Basically, I'm renovating one of the bedrooms in my house. Ultimately it will be one of the kids bedroom so not looking for a super professional finish so doing it myself as thought its a good opportunity to brush up on my plastering skills - only done once or twice previously.
3 of the 4 walls are in decent condition and I will plan to just skim these. Ceiling has already been skimmed.
However, one of the walls at the rear is in noticeable worse condition that the others + wife has decided she didn't like built in wardrobe that was originally there so I've had to rip that out as well.
Please see pictures.
I have the following questions:
a) The walls are brick, then some sort of hardwall or cement mix + a softish thick plaster (quite crumbly in places now) on top of that + final skim coat. The extent to which they are still on the wall and the ease to which I can get them off differs a lot.
Should I hack off as much as I can with the aim of getting back to bricks or try and preserve as much as possible.
b) Given I have bricks behind - is it best to hardwall or use bonding before I apply multi-finish. I always hear people talking about it depends on suction of walls, but is it likely that the brick walls of a 1910 terrace house likely to be low suction or high suction.
Or should I try and hack it all off and then board. This I think will be a big pain - some of the areas have hardwall + cement which is really well stuck on.
c) Given I ripped built in wardrobe out, I have a 4ft x 1ft gap in ceiling that I need to plasterboard. Once I have put plasterboard in - should I tape around edges where it meets the walls or not. Also you can see the ceiling has already been skimmed. What is best way to blend one into the other - should I tape that joint.
Any answers to those q's or any other advice - would be much appreciated.
Thanks
[/img]
Basically, I'm renovating one of the bedrooms in my house. Ultimately it will be one of the kids bedroom so not looking for a super professional finish so doing it myself as thought its a good opportunity to brush up on my plastering skills - only done once or twice previously.
3 of the 4 walls are in decent condition and I will plan to just skim these. Ceiling has already been skimmed.
However, one of the walls at the rear is in noticeable worse condition that the others + wife has decided she didn't like built in wardrobe that was originally there so I've had to rip that out as well.
Please see pictures.
I have the following questions:
a) The walls are brick, then some sort of hardwall or cement mix + a softish thick plaster (quite crumbly in places now) on top of that + final skim coat. The extent to which they are still on the wall and the ease to which I can get them off differs a lot.
Should I hack off as much as I can with the aim of getting back to bricks or try and preserve as much as possible.
b) Given I have bricks behind - is it best to hardwall or use bonding before I apply multi-finish. I always hear people talking about it depends on suction of walls, but is it likely that the brick walls of a 1910 terrace house likely to be low suction or high suction.
Or should I try and hack it all off and then board. This I think will be a big pain - some of the areas have hardwall + cement which is really well stuck on.
c) Given I ripped built in wardrobe out, I have a 4ft x 1ft gap in ceiling that I need to plasterboard. Once I have put plasterboard in - should I tape around edges where it meets the walls or not. Also you can see the ceiling has already been skimmed. What is best way to blend one into the other - should I tape that joint.
Any answers to those q's or any other advice - would be much appreciated.
Thanks
