Hi, I am soon to skim over some plasterboarded walls. After putting
self adhesive fibre-glass tape over the joints of the plasterboard do
I need to fill the joints in the same way you would if you were taping
and filling the joints and not skimming?

I have used paper corner tape for the corners and wall-ceiling joints.

Thank you

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nafuk writes:
Hi, I am soon to skim over some plasterboarded walls. After putting
self adhesive fibre-glass tape over the joints of the plasterboard do
I need to fill the joints in the same way you would if you were taping
and filling the joints and not skimming?

Depends what gap you left between the boards.
If you left a 1/4" gap, then use bonding coat to fill
the gap, and push enough in that it will go right through
the board thickness and form a good bond between the board
edges. Put the scrim tape over this and skim when the
bonding coat is set or nearly set, but still wet.
If there's no gap or insufficient gap between boards to get
plaster in, just apply the scrim tape and then skim over it.

I have used paper corner tape for the corners and wall-ceiling joints.

I don't think that will work well with plaster. It's for
when you aren't plastering. You should use scrim tape.

BTW, scrim tape is only self-adhesive when you first unwrap
it (if it ever was). After it's been exposed to plaster
dust, etc, it no longer is. What you do is smear plaster
down the path for the tape, dab a length of scrim in place
into the wet plaster, and then plaster over it -- the plaster
holds it in place, and will do so more effectively than any
adhesive on the tape.

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Andrew Gabriel
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