Currently i am in the process of doing up my living room. Everything has been moved out of there i will be replacing my fire and rip out my fireplace and i am pulling all wallpaper off the walls and going to bare plaster.
From the looks of it the plaster underneath is rather old id say a good 50% of it is blown. My house is a rather old detached property (1890) and has a double brick wall with no cavity, so as you can imagine it lets out heat rather easily and is prone to condensation problems. On the outside of the property it is rendered with some sort of finish.
In the living room there are 2 external walls 1 of which has a window and the other my chimney breast. The external wall with my chimney breast also has a a garage where the external wall has not been rendered, this garage is more of a "lean too" though and is very old and built out of old rail sleepers many years ago and is open and exposed.
My plans were the following:
1) To simply fix the blown plaster by removing it.
2) Run some cables under the floorboards for network and my speaker AV system
3) Then get the plasterer to fix the holes left by blown plaster and reskim the walls and plaster over the artex on the ceiling.
I would like my house to be warmer and i only want to decorate once rather than twice in the short term so i am now considering placing a stud wall on my external walls in the living room then placing good quality insulation in and then placing plasterboard over the top.
Simply put is this a good idea?
Are there better solutions to insulating a room without needing the effort of building 2 new walls?
Does anyone have any additional advice in my project?
From the looks of it the plaster underneath is rather old id say a good 50% of it is blown. My house is a rather old detached property (1890) and has a double brick wall with no cavity, so as you can imagine it lets out heat rather easily and is prone to condensation problems. On the outside of the property it is rendered with some sort of finish.
In the living room there are 2 external walls 1 of which has a window and the other my chimney breast. The external wall with my chimney breast also has a a garage where the external wall has not been rendered, this garage is more of a "lean too" though and is very old and built out of old rail sleepers many years ago and is open and exposed.
My plans were the following:
1) To simply fix the blown plaster by removing it.
2) Run some cables under the floorboards for network and my speaker AV system
3) Then get the plasterer to fix the holes left by blown plaster and reskim the walls and plaster over the artex on the ceiling.
I would like my house to be warmer and i only want to decorate once rather than twice in the short term so i am now considering placing a stud wall on my external walls in the living room then placing good quality insulation in and then placing plasterboard over the top.
Simply put is this a good idea?
Are there better solutions to insulating a room without needing the effort of building 2 new walls?
Does anyone have any additional advice in my project?
