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I live in an old brick house from the late 1800s, and I am planning to make some changes.
Behind an interior wall that is now plastered, there is original brick that I would like to expose.
As far as I know, there's only plaster, studs, and then the brick in the wall (besides the electrical boxes).
Are there any kind souls with experience in this who would like to share a few tips,
and what problems I might encounter??
Perhaps this question landed in the wrong forum now, admin is welcome to move it
I live in an old brick house from the late 1800s, and I am planning to make some changes.
Behind an interior wall that is now plastered, there is original brick that I would like to expose.
As far as I know, there's only plaster, studs, and then the brick in the wall (besides the electrical boxes).
Are there any kind souls with experience in this who would like to share a few tips,
and what problems I might encounter??
No problems other than the possibility that there might be electrical wiring behind it that disappears, perhaps an electrician needs to go there and change something, and the studs you are talking about are screwed into the wall, so there will be large or small holes that will be visible. But you won't know anything about that until it starts to be demolished, it looks nice with an accent wall of old brick.
No one knows what it looks like behind, once you start tearing, you can't stop, if there's an electrical outlet in the wall. Take a hammer and punch a hole in the plasterboard, then you can break off pieces until only the studs are left and see how they are attached. The holes that might appear can be filled with some regular putty and then become an artist and with watercolor achieve a suitable shade resembling the brick.
Sounds good!
I also read that you could drill into a brick you have nearby and "paint" with its dust on the filler. What do you think about that?
Should I further treat the wall with something? I have previously used linolja + balsamterpentin on reinforcement bars for decoration so that they don't rub off.
I also read that you could drill into a brick you have nearby and "paint" with its dust on the filler. What do you think about that?
Should I further treat the wall with something? I have previously used linolja + balsamterpentin on reinforcement bars for decoration so that they don't rub off.
Painting with the dust is something I've never done, good idea, I've only seen young people from the art school paint bricks so that you can't tell which one doesn't belong there. Some form of coating on the bricks is probably needed so they don't rub off and remain beautiful. But what's best isn't my area, probably a matte surface is best so it doesn't turn into a mirror. Hang around here and wait a little, someone who knows will surely come, you can tear down in the meantime.
No personal experience but here's a thread discussing the treatment of brick walls: https://www.byggahus.se/forum/threads/tegelvaegg-oljas-eller-lackas.55274/
and an article: http://skonahem.com/kok/sa-skyddar-du-din-tegel-eller-betongvagg-i-koket/
and an article: http://skonahem.com/kok/sa-skyddar-du-din-tegel-eller-betongvagg-i-koket/
Thank you so much!
I was just passing by the wall when I started knocking on it and discovered that large parts of the wall didn't sound hollow when I knocked on it. Clumsy, I know, but it's a partition wall. Plaster? How do you think I should proceed?
I was just passing by the wall when I started knocking on it and discovered that large parts of the wall didn't sound hollow when I knocked on it. Clumsy, I know, but it's a partition wall. Plaster? How do you think I should proceed?
Sorry, but I'm having a bit of trouble keeping up. If you're tapping on top of the plasterboard, haven't you torn anything down to know that the plasterboard was framed? Partly, it's possible that you're tapping on or near the studs, and partly, it's possible that the brickwork is very uneven, so the plasterboard is sometimes directly against the brick, which is probably plastered since something must have been on top of the brick to get a nice (and modern for that time) surface. But it's just as rävlyan wrote: "Nobody knows how it looks behind."
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