gaps between plasterboard

[herds]

Unfortunately as my house doesn't appear to have any plumb walls or 45's i've a few gaps between the each piece of plaserboard only around 5mm at the biggest point and a few bits around the edges that need filling.

Can a bit of bonding then scrim tape fill the gaps? or is best to use easifill? or some other flexible filler?

Cheers my dears.

 

[JME401]

Personally I would scrim then brown the wall 1st

 

[johniosaif]

If you are going to skim it, then just scrim and skim...

 

[Minh]

You'll be able to get away with 5mm gaps. Scrim and skim making sure you fill the gaps with the first coat. You'll be surprised how sturdy it becomes afterwards

 

[thebigfella]

Same as above just make sure the board are fixed to the wall

 

[johniosaif]

Same as above just make sure the board are fixed to the wall

That always helps ha ha..

 

[bubbles65]

Scrim first, add some bonding or a bit of finish, brush it in and let it go off before applying your skim coats :RpS_thumbup:

 

[herds]

cool... cheers, saves me a tenner on the sexy bag of easifill i've been eyeing up for a few weeks

 

[spunky]

Easifill?

 

[NPS]

who boarded it ? if it was someone else ask them why they have left gaps

 

[Rhys]

Once over it was common practice to leave a nails width gap between boards.

 

[Minh]

I know dry liners in the game for years and leave gaps, shows you're inexperience little skimmer person

There's nothing wrong with leaving a few gaps. I wouldn't even be concerned with 5mm gaps because you can even skim over gaps that are 10mm without any problems.

 

[Nisus]

3mm should be the biggest gap for skim but we all know we go over bigger :RpS_wink:

 

[beader]

Once over it was common practice to leave a nails width gap between boards.

Those were the days of buttering up the joints with skim before applying the scrim .

 

[johniosaif]

caulking the joint we called it.. sounds more exciting than it is ha ha

 

[carlos]

As long as the gap is less than the width of scrim its fine.

 

[herds]

cheers men.

tried easifill for the first time today and now think... why the F did i ever by those rip off polyfiller nonsense.