mulben

Yyeeessss. hhmmm

Gyprock adhesive glue (not hard as nails) but your problem is not enough contact to hold the sheet as you don't want gaps behind.

The original tiles where straight on a plastered masonry wall - the best result would still be that way.

geez I,m a big help

Rossi

If you need to flex the board THAT much you may find you have trouble tiling it too
I would go for, either a complete replastering job, OR affix timber studding to the wall to which you can screw your plasterboards
If you lean that much on "cement" sheeting ..it'll snap

wanttobedownunder

Hi,

For a start DO NOT use "no nails". Use plasterboard adhesive you buy it in power form and mix it like plaster you can use a far bigger spot of it and it costs less (this is called dot dabbing). You would have to use at least a tube of no nails per sheet and still not get a good fixing. Run a thick bead of it along the top and bottom of the wall then put a large spot (dab) every 400mm roughly then place your board against it and tap it onto the adhesive making sure its plumb with your spirit level.

See an example below, although you won't be able to to it as good as this guy..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pssxkpXEb8&feature=fvw

Rgds,

Tony.

steve`o

thats the way to do it

Siren & Brian

You may have a cement sheet or Villa board... I would use Drywall/masonary adheasive and rather that dab it on would use a 10mm notch trowel and go over the whole board and then whack it up. No other fixing required and is very solid so no drumming effect for the tiles.

sasbear

I wonder if his wife ever shoved a spirit level in his.................???

The_Pom_From_Aus

sasbear;

if you use 50mm counter sunk wood screws you drill them just inside the plasterboard then when all done you simply skim over the screws with filler.

sasbear

Well thank you to all....the outcome this morning....The worst wall was the one he started on and was so out of line it was unbeleivable!!!! The other walls look a doddle

We ended up taking the (plaster)board off, chiselling some of the worst bits off with this digger tool thingy (see how technical I have become overnight!) then tried again with wood chocking it from the other side to keep in place across the wall - and this morning? Well it appears to have worked it is almost level - and only about 3 mm out across the whole span.......

The lowering of the ceiling was easy compared to this bloody job - we have the rest of it to do today.

Luke I Amyofath

Firstly, since you have bare breeze blocks for a wall, youd be much better off getting the wall plastered.
If you really want to use gyprock (drywall), you should first frame the wall with 1x2" strapping, then screw the gyprock to the strapping. A good tip also is to get yourself a prybar and block of wood to use as a shim to pry and hold the gyprock to the ceiling while you screw a couple of screws. You use your foot to hold the prybar thus leaving your hands free to screww the screws in.
To screw the screws in it is best to use a drywall drill, but any drill that has variable torque will do since a normal drill is harder to control and stop your screw from going right through the gyprock.

sasbear

cHEERS - AND THE LATEST...............................


The ****** thing has come away from the ****** wall AGAIN.

I give up. HE is going to build a frame - and do as others have suggested. Why oh why do men tend to think better when they have a spiriti level up their....

squeezzii

thanks for the update on that Sas, I was reading your post with great amusement (sorry) seems that the frame idea is the best one. Good luck with that and yeah, the spirit level always gets results eh?

quoll

Ummmm - hire a plasterer and then go away for the weekend and let them get on with it?

DIY is a dirty word as far as I am concerned but DH thinks he is good at it

paulry

I agree. If a job is fairly easy then fine otherwise save yourself the hassle and get someone in.

Sasbear: Thanks for the laffs

The_Pom_From_Aus

sasbear;

i think we should come 7 do the job for you, it shall cost you only for beer, more Beer, food, more food, more Beer.,??????

sasbear

LOL - We are trying to renovate all on our own aside from the electrician and plumber.....but at times we have been left scratching our heads....I said we have to get the bathroom fitted out first....as the only toilet is the outside one on the porch....they didn't have an inside toilet, so that has set us back a while with hiring equipment in to dig through concrete.....

It took us a week to find the septic tank....and then we had to sort out the water pressure....but yesterday...I had ENOUGH. As you can all probably guess.

I really cracked it and told him where to go, in short sharp jerky movements...

I think that has 'levelled' his temper a little now