Hi chaps,
I've got a right job to tackle here and could really do with some expert advice on where to start and finish.
WARNING: THE IMAGES YOU ARE ABOUT TO VIEW ARE NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED!!
Some close-ups:
This was done about 13 years ago. Basically, our old brickie buddy removed the window so we could have a doorway running through to our new conservatory. I can no longer live with the mess he made. All the mistakes were showing through the wallapaper - splodges of cement where he'd sealed the gap between original plaster and his uneven plasterboard. Some gaps were just left as gaping. He's even left in the old wooden corner beads from near where the original window was!
I intend to cut around where he's patched around the archway to expose the brickwork (Like so in red):
Do I then have to set corner beads? I want a nice solid wall so is ok to go for the plastered approach (render coat, then two skim coats if that's right)? I don't really want that hollow sound which you get with plasterboard so I prefer to avoid using it.
I assume that once I'm down to the brick, I set the angle beads at the corners of the brickwork allowing for the thickness of the new plaster? Can someone please give me a simple, yet concise step by step approach?
I do have some plastering experience and funnily enough I've done exactly the same sort of work before, but can't really remember how I did it. I don't remember it being too difficult though.
The plaster has to go round the corner to the other room, but only up to where I will install the new door frame. Yes I had to remove his old 'doorframe' too which was constructed with flimsy thin planks!!
The problem I'm going to have is when i come to plastering the wooden lintel, plaster won't stick to wood so how do I prepare that surface so that I can plaster over it? Mesh? Nails?
Final surface will be wallpapered so it doesn't have to be super smooth, just as long as it's flat and level I'm happy.
By the way the same guy did the conservatory
I highly recommend him!!
Thank you!
I've got a right job to tackle here and could really do with some expert advice on where to start and finish.
WARNING: THE IMAGES YOU ARE ABOUT TO VIEW ARE NOT FOR THE FAINT-HEARTED!!
Some close-ups:
This was done about 13 years ago. Basically, our old brickie buddy removed the window so we could have a doorway running through to our new conservatory. I can no longer live with the mess he made. All the mistakes were showing through the wallapaper - splodges of cement where he'd sealed the gap between original plaster and his uneven plasterboard. Some gaps were just left as gaping. He's even left in the old wooden corner beads from near where the original window was!
I intend to cut around where he's patched around the archway to expose the brickwork (Like so in red):
Do I then have to set corner beads? I want a nice solid wall so is ok to go for the plastered approach (render coat, then two skim coats if that's right)? I don't really want that hollow sound which you get with plasterboard so I prefer to avoid using it.
I assume that once I'm down to the brick, I set the angle beads at the corners of the brickwork allowing for the thickness of the new plaster? Can someone please give me a simple, yet concise step by step approach?
I do have some plastering experience and funnily enough I've done exactly the same sort of work before, but can't really remember how I did it. I don't remember it being too difficult though.
The plaster has to go round the corner to the other room, but only up to where I will install the new door frame. Yes I had to remove his old 'doorframe' too which was constructed with flimsy thin planks!!
The problem I'm going to have is when i come to plastering the wooden lintel, plaster won't stick to wood so how do I prepare that surface so that I can plaster over it? Mesh? Nails?
Final surface will be wallpapered so it doesn't have to be super smooth, just as long as it's flat and level I'm happy.
By the way the same guy did the conservatory
I highly recommend him!!Thank you!
