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Pleasure, glad you liked it. Good luck with the reno!
Mate, if you are doing the work yourself, the cost of the plasterboard alone is around the 5 to 6 dollar a square metre. Whack those numbers into your calculator to find out the overall cost of the plasterboard. Add around $100.00 for adhesive and miscllaneous.
As far as sanding down the rough surface and painting over it……..you can try but you will still get an uneven finish. You can disguise the imperfections to a degree through the choice of paint. I know Haymes have a wall finish called Silk. It’s inbetween a low sheen and a ceiling flat. When applied it tends to flatten out and hides any shadows that may appear from using a low-sheen on a slightly imperfect wall finish. It can be washed down too which is handy.
Hope that helps
Mate if you want to plasterboard over a blockwork wall there are a couple of options that are open to you. You can either just stick the plasterboard to the blockwork using masonary adhesive (which is like a cornice cement), or batten out your walls with metal battens and then apply the plasterboard to the wall battens. When using either methods just be aware of the affect it will make to your door openings etc, as the extra width of the metal batten/masonary adhesive and plasterboard will bring the finished surface past your existing finished wall……if you know what l mean.
Personally we have used masonary adhesive to stick plasterboad to blockwork and it’s worked like a charm. Oh yeah, one thing you must do when applying the adhesive to your blockwork, make sure you have rub the section back where you are applying the adhesive blobs. If you don’t, the stuff won’t stick properly.
Hope this helps.
Hi Amanda,
Thanks for the comment. Would love to see what you guys get up to. Are you ever down in Melbourne doing seminars? Cheers
