Plasterboard on log wall

[johanjakob]

Hi, my partner and I have bought an old log house from 1870.
The interior walls consisted of about 10 layers of wallpaper, so we decided to take down (tear down) the board the wallpaper was on and replace it with plasterboard.
Now the question is. Should we put a wind barrier between the log wall and the plasterboard, and do we need to create an air gap? Or can we simply screw the plasterboard directly onto the logs without doing anything special?

Hmm...

 

[JesperS]

Just screw the drywall directly, the old wallpapers and the masonite can also stay underneath so you avoid the demolition work. Renovation drywall (6 mm) is the easiest. If there is a clay plaster layer underneath against the timber, and you tear it down and screw drywall onto it, small pieces can fall off under the drywall in the future, which is why it's fine to leave it as it is today.