tester wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:47:20 GMT, Stuart Noble
wrote:

Andy Hall wrote:
On 2007-04-22 23:23:00 +0100, Lurch said:

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:12:25 +0100, Andy Hall
mused:

One method is to use dabs of plaster on the wall and to push the board
onto them.

I thought that works onto brick - but the walls have painted paper.
No. Paper would have to come off.

I believe that's a full circle then.
I didn't paint over the gas tap....

Cutting it short, it seems as though the options are

- paper off

- paper and plaster off

- battens screwed to wall and plasterboard.

Or just swamp the whole thing in pva and skim. I wouldn't want to lose
that much space with battens and PB, not to mention all the faffing
about round doors and windows

PVA and skim over painted wallpaper - serious?

Not ideal but, with enough pva and scoring the surface, it would
probably hold. Try it on a section.