I’ve got microbore central heating in my house which is also drop feed into my living room, kitchen etc. I’m starting to decorate the living room and had a plasterer come round to see about skimming the walls and ceiling. My original plan was to chase the walls to hide the drop feed microbore, as well as extra cables I’ll install for sky, extra sockets in the room, telephone cables etc so I needed to know how deep the chases would have to be for him to be able to effectively skim over them.
However, he has suggested using a ‘dot-n-dab’ to create a small cavity between the original wall and he new plasterboard. I’m planning to use small 12.5mm plaster board dabs to give me the space for the cavity, then a 12.5mm full board over that to create the new wall. This gives me a nice cavity size for which to lay the new cabling straight onto the original wall without having to chase, and lets me route the pipework a little easier too. I’m going to use hep20 microbore, route it down the cavity and exit the plaster board just below the rad valves so as to keep it nice and neat.
However, my problem is now how to hang the radiators, pictures, curtain pole and any other bits I need to from this ‘false’ wall. I’ll have to go deep enough to get to the original wall underneath, but this means I’ll need 1” before I’ve even made contact with the original wall underneath. And with the weight of a radiator/curtain rail I don’t want that levering into the plasterboard wall (whereas with a solid wall it would hold it flat and tight). Should I fix some 12.5mm mdf to those sections I know I’ll need to drill before putting the plasterboard sheet over it?
Can anyone see any problems with this method I’m going to use?
However, he has suggested using a ‘dot-n-dab’ to create a small cavity between the original wall and he new plasterboard. I’m planning to use small 12.5mm plaster board dabs to give me the space for the cavity, then a 12.5mm full board over that to create the new wall. This gives me a nice cavity size for which to lay the new cabling straight onto the original wall without having to chase, and lets me route the pipework a little easier too. I’m going to use hep20 microbore, route it down the cavity and exit the plaster board just below the rad valves so as to keep it nice and neat.
However, my problem is now how to hang the radiators, pictures, curtain pole and any other bits I need to from this ‘false’ wall. I’ll have to go deep enough to get to the original wall underneath, but this means I’ll need 1” before I’ve even made contact with the original wall underneath. And with the weight of a radiator/curtain rail I don’t want that levering into the plasterboard wall (whereas with a solid wall it would hold it flat and tight). Should I fix some 12.5mm mdf to those sections I know I’ll need to drill before putting the plasterboard sheet over it?
Can anyone see any problems with this method I’m going to use?
