New wall

[Eggentini]

Planning to renovate the kitchen. Installed new windows. Now going to paint the ceiling, lay the floor, new wall. Yes, a complete renovation.

Currently, there's an ugly woven wallpaper on a chipboard (I think?) attached to regular wooden planks. So I probably don't even need to find the studs to put up new drywall. It's wood all the way behind?

Can you directly put new drywall on that wall or should you remove the wallpaper and then put drywall?

Also going to put raw chipboard around the windows and drywall there to have tiles as the window recess.

 

[Fulkemisten]

It looks like tretex and not particle board. But go ahead as planned. It will be fine.

 

[Eggentini]

It looks like tretex and not chipboard. But go ahead as you planned. It will be fine.

Just go directly over it then? nice to avoid heavy work

 

[Fulkemisten]

Yes. As long as it's even, otherwise the drywall panels might bulge.

 

[Eggentini]

Encountered the next problem... how best to handle electrical outlets? To get it level with the new wall... is it even possible?

 

[tergo]

there are extension rings for the boxes (if they are plastic boxes)