Stuart Noble wrote:
Lurch wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:15:31 GMT, tester mused:

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?

He might be, but ignore it.

I've seen instances where woodchip had been skimmed in older houses,
student lets etc, and had held up remarkably well. Depends what kind of
a job you want to do

Essentially if copious yanking and pulling fails to remove the paper,
skim over it. It is, de facto solid enough.

I've had more trouble from plasterboard clouts then over the scrim
tape..which is hardly a really major adhesive..

A lot of DIY is knowing when it matters, and when it does not.

I have regularly repaired holes in plasterboard with all manner of bits
of newspaper and wire mesh and lords knows what wedged behind, knowing
that once a layer of binding plaster is over them, they cease to have
any function at all.

What is plasterboard? a layer of very poor quality plaster with two
layers of rather thick wall paper - not even properly glued - either side.