Another Plastering Question

message from rition on 16 May 2004

We are having a new kitchen and instead of tiles we are having granite
upstands and painted walls.

My husband has removed the old tiles from the plasterboard and he is
left with tile cement ridges all the way around the room. He has tried
to remove them but then the plasterboard is damaged.

The plasterer who came said that the wall doesn't need skimming but
that we should concentrate on removing all of the tile cement and
filling the damaged sections. (Not sure how long this would take as a
three six inch tile section took over an hour and we have all four
walls tiled)

The kitchen surveyor says that as we are not having the walls re-tiled
we need to get the walls skimmed (both the surveyor and plasterer have
looked at the walls.)

I am totally in the dark as I have never had a new kitchen and my
husband is loathed to carry on trying to remove all of the cement
because of the resulting plasterboard damage.

Does anyone have any experience of this - i.e. have you had a wall
skimmed after removing tiles and if so did you have to remove all of
the tile cement first?

Thanks

N. Thornton replied to rition on 16 May 2004

If the damage is small you can fill. If its a mess you'll need a skim,
which is a new finish coat all over.

You /can/ skim over tile cement as far as Im aware, but its better to
remove it, easier job. For tile removal try a powered chisel, takes em
off in seconds, and ditto the cement. SDS plus chisel, or Ferm
multisander with scraping bit.

Regards, NT

Huge replied to rition on 16 May 2004

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Yes. No.

In one case the plasterer removed the plasterboard & replaced it. In
another he skimmed over the remains and in the third, he "just" stuck
plasterboard over the unwanted tiles and skimmed that.

rition replied to rition on 19 May 2004

Thanks for your help, all sorted now

EricP replied to rition on 16 May 2004

Plasterboard is about £4 for a large sheet, and you can fill the joins
in with a hand tool in a couple of hours.

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