Drywall on Treetex

[The Tor]

I will be installing plasterboard on a wall with Treetex. I planned to use 6mm repair plasterboard but was warned that 6mm is not strong enough. The plasterboards will bulge in where the screws are fastened.

Anyone with experience in plasterboard on Treetex?

Ps. I just thought maybe I can glue the repair plasterboard instead?

 

[Ekand]

Hello

I have put plaster on treetex but in the rooms I am renovating now, I remove the treetex first.

It's better that way.

Fredrik

 

[feffe6804]

I also removed the treetex before installing drywall. It's a bit of work and it creates quite a bit of dust, but the result is good. If you remove the treetex first, no special solutions with moldings are needed since treetex and drywall are almost the same thickness.

 

[The Tor]

We are removing Treetex from interior walls, but this is an exterior wall where we want to keep Treetex for insulation purposes.

Ekland:
Did you use regular or repair gypsum?

 

[Ekand]

Hi

I set it to normal because the renovation plaster goes in and becomes bumpy.

Fredrik

 

[Gabbe1]

A few weeks ago, I put up 20m of drywall on a wall with tretex (on wooden planks) as a base. It worked really well, I used 13mm gypsum boards and screws that went through the tretex and secured into the wooden planks.

 

[saturnus]

Can't remember ever seeing a Tretex that was so smooth that it could be a good substrate for a plasterboard.

 

[snuttjulle]

Can't remember ever seeing a Tretex that was so smooth that it would be a good substrate for drywall.

If you come by the capital, get in touch and check out my walls. These are not from the '50s and bumpy so that a 6mm plasterboard would sag anyway. In the living room, I tore down all the wallpaper, then sealed the seams with paint, and finally wallpapered, and there are no big dents there. And if they were so large that they would show through a plasterboard, you would be screwing it in incredibly hard.

 

[Wodie]

I have installed 13 mm plasterboard on tretex with raw planks behind, and it has worked just fine, but I have been on a job in Oslo and noticed they had promoting plasterboard, it was not stiff enough, so when it started to move, the screw heads showed up in the wallpaper, not particularly pretty.

 

[The Tor]

Then it will have to be 13mm plasterboard. Just need to make it look nice with new window and door frames.

I can't remember ever seeing any Tretex that was smooth enough to be a good base for plasterboard.

We have wallpapered Treetex (original from 1939) in all six rooms without any major problems. In the kitchen, which we are working on now, there are a few issues since we removed a sink (untreated Treetex behind). But it is absolutely smooth enough to install plasterboard.

 

[JanneL]

Cannot remember ever seeing any Tretex that was so smooth that it could serve as a good base for gypsum board.

I can only agree with snuttjulle. If you come by up here, you are welcome to take a look. I have treetex in 6 houses and they are completely smooth.

 

[valter53]

While we're dealing with Tretex.
I'm thinking of applying återställare on the walls in the room where there is Tretex to get a more durable surface.
Does anyone have experience?
The room will be used as an office.

 

[The Tor]

Valter:
Please start your own thread with your questions so I won't receive reminders via email when someone answers your questions.
Thanks!