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· Västernorrland Njurunda
· 17 posts
Hello!
I am new here on the forum and eager to learn how to renovate my wooden house from 1938 without ruining its function, appearance, or soul. I have basic knowledge from renovating old cars and trailers, which has long been a hobby, but now I'm expanding my interest to house renovation
The house is typical allmoge, I think, with equal rooms about 4x4 meters on two floors + basement. Exterior panel with tongue and groove timber and narrow batten paneling. Beneath that, there are horizontal boards and then windproof paper and framed with 2x4 and filled with wood chips. Horizontal planks as interior walls and on top of that a soft fiberboard and then wallpaper. That's how the house is built. I have replaced one wall which I now have fiberglass in instead of chips. If I had been able to decide myself and my wife didn't have the mandate to influence, I would have filled it with chips again.
I am now preparing one of the upstairs rooms with a partially sloped ceiling. I have torn out a 1x1m closet in an outer corner that I judged wasn't load-bearing for the roof. The walls are covered with soft fiberboard (and the ceiling with a slightly harder one). I'm considering plastering the walls and ceiling where the closet used to be, and maybe the entire ceiling.
To my question: Can I put plasterboard on the soft fiberboard? It doesn't sound completely "stable." But I like that it might insulate a bit against the cold if it remains.
Grateful for good advice on this!
I am new here on the forum and eager to learn how to renovate my wooden house from 1938 without ruining its function, appearance, or soul. I have basic knowledge from renovating old cars and trailers, which has long been a hobby, but now I'm expanding my interest to house renovation
The house is typical allmoge, I think, with equal rooms about 4x4 meters on two floors + basement. Exterior panel with tongue and groove timber and narrow batten paneling. Beneath that, there are horizontal boards and then windproof paper and framed with 2x4 and filled with wood chips. Horizontal planks as interior walls and on top of that a soft fiberboard and then wallpaper. That's how the house is built. I have replaced one wall which I now have fiberglass in instead of chips. If I had been able to decide myself and my wife didn't have the mandate to influence, I would have filled it with chips again.
I am now preparing one of the upstairs rooms with a partially sloped ceiling. I have torn out a 1x1m closet in an outer corner that I judged wasn't load-bearing for the roof. The walls are covered with soft fiberboard (and the ceiling with a slightly harder one). I'm considering plastering the walls and ceiling where the closet used to be, and maybe the entire ceiling.
To my question: Can I put plasterboard on the soft fiberboard? It doesn't sound completely "stable." But I like that it might insulate a bit against the cold if it remains.
Grateful for good advice on this!
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· Västernorrland Njurunda
· 17 posts
Sounds good! Then you don't have to tear down the room before plastering
I assume there are different lengths of drywall screws so they go into the plank under the board?
I assume there are different lengths of drywall screws so they go into the plank under the board?
If you mean the so-called tretex board and plan to put repair gypsum board on it, you must be careful when screwing in the drywall screws and not screw them in too far (so you don't crack the thin gypsum since the tretex flexes a bit). And remember to use, for example, 41-42mm drywall screws so that they anchor into the material behind the tretex.
Edit: I see now that I didn't need to write about longer drywall screws...
And welcome to the forum
Edit: I see now that I didn't need to write about longer drywall screws...
And welcome to the forum