Hey everyone!
We're in the process of renovating a vacation cottage.
It's an older home which we'll use primarily in the summer.
We've spent months renovating the bathroom on weekends and are FINALLY ready to finish up the bedrooms and move quickly so we can at least get some beds in the place.
Here's the problem. We stripped the ceilings of their ugly ceiling tiles and taken down the thin (and again ugly) panelling on the walls.
What we've revealed are bowed out, bulging walls of old plasterboard material. They are hard like plaster but in sheets like sheetrock. I tried testing re-nailing the plaster to the studs... took a drywall nail, nailed it and the polasterboard popped right up through the nail leaving a small hole.
We're trying to get this 1 bedroom done quickly and are definitly NOT looking to take the plasterboard down. Behind it is an old foam-type insulation that disintegrates into a fine dust and is just too hazardous to deal with.... we'll insulate with a thermal wrap outside.
We're thing of taking furring strips and nailing along the studs to reattach the bulged out plater to the studs. We'll then either skim coat in between the 1x3s and paint everything. It's an easy solution and we've seen this in cottages before so the look is not that bad for a cottage.
Will the skimcoat be able to help save these walls?
We just don't have it in the budget or timewise to sheetrock the entire room.... too much interior work (a new kitchen) and exterior (new roof and siding) to worry much on this 1 bedroom.
Thanks for all your help.
We're in the process of renovating a vacation cottage.
It's an older home which we'll use primarily in the summer.
We've spent months renovating the bathroom on weekends and are FINALLY ready to finish up the bedrooms and move quickly so we can at least get some beds in the place.
Here's the problem. We stripped the ceilings of their ugly ceiling tiles and taken down the thin (and again ugly) panelling on the walls.
What we've revealed are bowed out, bulging walls of old plasterboard material. They are hard like plaster but in sheets like sheetrock. I tried testing re-nailing the plaster to the studs... took a drywall nail, nailed it and the polasterboard popped right up through the nail leaving a small hole.
We're trying to get this 1 bedroom done quickly and are definitly NOT looking to take the plasterboard down. Behind it is an old foam-type insulation that disintegrates into a fine dust and is just too hazardous to deal with.... we'll insulate with a thermal wrap outside.
We're thing of taking furring strips and nailing along the studs to reattach the bulged out plater to the studs. We'll then either skim coat in between the 1x3s and paint everything. It's an easy solution and we've seen this in cottages before so the look is not that bad for a cottage.
Will the skimcoat be able to help save these walls?
We just don't have it in the budget or timewise to sheetrock the entire room.... too much interior work (a new kitchen) and exterior (new roof and siding) to worry much on this 1 bedroom.
Thanks for all your help.