Hi!
In the new house (from 1923), we have now torn out the kitchen and fiberboard on the walls and ceiling from 1967 and found horizontal wooden planks. We are planning to install drywall but have two concerns:
- Can drywall absorb the irregularities and flaws present on the walls, such as nail heads that probably held the paper in place previously?
- What thickness of drywall should be used? Could renovation drywall work?
- Could there be fire safety reasons to choose standard thickness drywall in a kitchen instead of renovation drywall?
In the new house (from 1923), we have now torn out the kitchen and fiberboard on the walls and ceiling from 1967 and found horizontal wooden planks. We are planning to install drywall but have two concerns:
- Can drywall absorb the irregularities and flaws present on the walls, such as nail heads that probably held the paper in place previously?
- What thickness of drywall should be used? Could renovation drywall work?
- Could there be fire safety reasons to choose standard thickness drywall in a kitchen instead of renovation drywall?
- Hammer in any protruding nail heads.
- You can create softer transitions at irregularities by, for example, stapling several layers of flooring paper in a decreasing scale.
- Use the standard thickness for drywall (12-13 mm). Anything else is excluded!
- You can create softer transitions at irregularities by, for example, stapling several layers of flooring paper in a decreasing scale.
- Use the standard thickness for drywall (12-13 mm). Anything else is excluded!