djboonie
22nd Apr 2009, 12:58 PM
Hi
Let me preface this with I'm no DIY expert.
I have a double brick house and some minor cracks on the internal walls(external walls are another story). The cracks are above the picture rail line. And I expect that the house may need some re-stumping.
HISTORY : A year or so ago we renovated the kitchen, which involved us scrapping off all of the plaster back to the render and plastering it all back on. AS I work weekdays, I only had weekends to do this work. It took a few months(nearly 6) to complete, getting it straight and smooth, then re-doing the picture rails, tiles and finally finishing with the painting. The result was fantastic, but the length of time to complete was painful.
Issue: I know want to fix other rooms in the house and have similar contraints with time, added to that I have a 5 month pregnant wife who would like things to be finished before the baby comes. We have financial contraints as well, so getting someone else to do the work is not an option. I was brainstorming the other day on ways around these contraints and wondered whether the following was a possible solution.
1. Scrape off all the plaster above the picture rail line
2. Angle grind the render along the line of the picture rail and take off all the render
3 Smooth the bricks from flaky render/mortar
4 Fix all mortar gaps/ replace any broken bricks
5 Bondcrete the brickwork to seal
6 Stick and screw in plasterboard(10mm) sheets to brick work
7 Join
8 sand
9 prime
10 paint
I figure I could do a standard room in a couple of weekends(with a little work during the week) But would like to know whether this is approach is okay or fatally flawed?
Let me preface this with I'm no DIY expert.
I have a double brick house and some minor cracks on the internal walls(external walls are another story). The cracks are above the picture rail line. And I expect that the house may need some re-stumping.
HISTORY : A year or so ago we renovated the kitchen, which involved us scrapping off all of the plaster back to the render and plastering it all back on. AS I work weekdays, I only had weekends to do this work. It took a few months(nearly 6) to complete, getting it straight and smooth, then re-doing the picture rails, tiles and finally finishing with the painting. The result was fantastic, but the length of time to complete was painful.
Issue: I know want to fix other rooms in the house and have similar contraints with time, added to that I have a 5 month pregnant wife who would like things to be finished before the baby comes. We have financial contraints as well, so getting someone else to do the work is not an option. I was brainstorming the other day on ways around these contraints and wondered whether the following was a possible solution.
1. Scrape off all the plaster above the picture rail line
2. Angle grind the render along the line of the picture rail and take off all the render
3 Smooth the bricks from flaky render/mortar
4 Fix all mortar gaps/ replace any broken bricks
5 Bondcrete the brickwork to seal
6 Stick and screw in plasterboard(10mm) sheets to brick work
7 Join
8 sand
9 prime
10 paint
I figure I could do a standard room in a couple of weekends(with a little work during the week) But would like to know whether this is approach is okay or fatally flawed?