Plasterboard Wall Problem....

tonyj_mc

We are having a slight problem and i wonder if the might of boards wisdom might be able to help me,

We have recently moved into a second hand home and when we started to decorate we discovered that the walls are plasterboard and that they have only been plastered at the joins and the corners, the lazy buggers that built the house / owned before us just slapped up lining paper over this and then painted, papered and painted a couple of more times :mad::mad::mad::mad:

As you can guess this is proving a wee bit tricky nightmare to take off and when it does it is taking the lining of the plasterboard off with it, we persevered with one room but as we start other rooms we have come across the same problem.

What is the easiest way to sort this problem out? Can we plaster over the paper or are we just adding to the problem, we do want to stay in the house for aslong as possible so we are looking for a lasting solution?

cheers

RKQ

Sounds to me like you are describing "Tape & fill" boards.
The joints between the boards are tape and filled with plaster. Once sanded it can be quite a good surface to receive paint.
This isn't a "lazy" method as it is quite common.

Removing the paper will damage the plasterboard surface!

bugsntinas

ye that sound normal apart from the many layers.i'd have thought normally the board would have been painted.annoying when previous owners make things worse we're in the same situation.

SPREADONE

You can reskim over the old plasterboard but you will have to make sure all the paper is of the wall. Brush on watered down pva say 3 to 1 to seal where the paper backing has come off the plasterboard. Take off all the old tape from the joints and re scrim them. Just before you skim the walls you will have to paint on neat pva and let it go tacky and then you can skim it. If you are not happy doing it yourself you can get a plasterer in to do it for you.

Carlow52

what is the end objective of what u are at?
why take off the lining paper?

newmills

Tony,

Why not board over the existing board and then skim finish that. On external walls look at insulated board. Double boarded walls give superior sound deadening qualities and the insulated boards will lower the heating bills.

tonyj_mc

cheers for the replies...

End objective is to get a decent looking wall that the plaster is not going to fall off of