Walls and Ceilings - Destroy or not destroy?
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01-28-02, 09:28 PM
Need some advice here.....
I have what is probably a common problem in redoing old kitchens. I have plaster/lathe walls upon which someone has stuck asphalt backed vinyl sheeting on the lower half, I guess to keep in the crumbling plaster. Half of it was loose and mosture damaged, and I knocked it off, but there remains much firmly stuck to the plaster. removing it would probably take the wall with it. I really don't want to mess with slowly scraping it off, since it's old enough that it probably has asbestos in it and I don't want to mess with it any more than I have to.
So, I want to put up drywall over it, but right now I have a very uneven wall, with the top half undamaged plaster, and the bottom half a mixture of bare plaster, sunken damaged plaster and plaster with vinyl on top of it. So the depth of the intact top part of the wall is inbetween the damaged wall and the vinyl covered wall, like so:
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Should I
A. Use some method to build up the wall in the really sunken spots and put thin drywall up over the still uneven wall or
B. knock down the plaster all the way to the lathe, and put up drywall over that or
C. something blindingly easy I hadn't though of yet?
jared.
I have what is probably a common problem in redoing old kitchens. I have plaster/lathe walls upon which someone has stuck asphalt backed vinyl sheeting on the lower half, I guess to keep in the crumbling plaster. Half of it was loose and mosture damaged, and I knocked it off, but there remains much firmly stuck to the plaster. removing it would probably take the wall with it. I really don't want to mess with slowly scraping it off, since it's old enough that it probably has asbestos in it and I don't want to mess with it any more than I have to.
So, I want to put up drywall over it, but right now I have a very uneven wall, with the top half undamaged plaster, and the bottom half a mixture of bare plaster, sunken damaged plaster and plaster with vinyl on top of it. So the depth of the intact top part of the wall is inbetween the damaged wall and the vinyl covered wall, like so:
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Should I
A. Use some method to build up the wall in the really sunken spots and put thin drywall up over the still uneven wall or
B. knock down the plaster all the way to the lathe, and put up drywall over that or
C. something blindingly easy I hadn't though of yet?
jared.
Tn...Andy
01-29-02, 05:02 AM
IF you have the room to spare, you could furr the wall out plumb and sheetrock over. To do this, install a furring strip ( 1x3 or 1x4) in each corner or at the end of each wall. Install this DEAD PLUMB....vertical....and use wood shims behind it to fill in several places where the old wall is shallow, let it hit the highest point in the old wall. Then, using these two ends as a reference point, furr out the rest of the wall directly over the old studs, use a string streched between the two end strips or a long straight edge, like a nice straight 2x4, shim behind each strip as needed to get a nice, flat plane for new drywall. You will have to move any electrical boxes out ( if they are metal, you can get extension pcs for them and not move).
Fair amount of work, but short of taking all the other off, that's about the only way I know of.
Fair amount of work, but short of taking all the other off, that's about the only way I know of.