Straight or Taper edge plasterboard? And help on how to joint it.

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Hi, I need a bit of advice on what board to buy.

I have heard so many different things about what I should go with.

I need four 2400mm x 1200mm boards for a small project that I am doing. I may have to cut them down because the area that I am working on is narrow and I may not be able to get them in place.

Where I cut them, I take it that I will need to tape them with scrim tape.

But what about where the boards meet every 600mm? Do I just scrim tape those parts too?

I have been on a couple of courses where I have seen the guys scrim tape every cut.

But I have also read multiple things about using straight and tapered boards etc.

I am going to skim over these boards so I want to make sure that I am using the right board and have jointed it well.

Can someone help.

Thanks
 
midiplaster said:
Hi, I need a bit of advice on what board to buy.

I have heard so many different things about what I should go with.

I need four 2400mm x 1200mm boards for a small project that I am doing. I may have to cut them down because the area that I am working on is narrow and I may not be able to get them in place.

Where I cut them, I take it that I will need to tape them with scrim tape.

But what about where the boards meet every 600mm? Do I just scrim tape those parts too?

I have been on a couple of courses where I have seen the guys scrim tape every cut.

But I have also read multiple things about using straight and tapered boards etc.

I am going to skim over these boards so I want to make sure that I am using the right board and have jointed it well.

Can someone help.

Thanks
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hiya pal, if your skimming them then square edge is better than tapered as those are for joint taping only. hope this helps?
 
dont take this wrong way pal... but if you dont know what boards to use, I wouldnt attempt skimming it...
 
Welcome along midi, :RpS_thumbsup: what do you do bud , please don't say time served plasterer :RpS_scared:


Tape every joint :RpS_thumbsup:
 
if you dont know what boards you need for a small job then you should not be attempting to skim this ffs honstly:glare:
 
Marshy said:
hiya pal, if your skimming them then square edge is better than tapered as those are for joint taping only. hope this helps?
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Thanks I'll get some straight edge ones then.

I've only skimmed on walls where the guys have already put the boards up.

They didn't explain anything about dry jointing or straight edge/tapered boards.
 
Don't matter what you use mate and if you need to cut boards down for access just cut them in half on the back and fold them in half to get them in then fix them as a full board no need to scrim the cut like.
 
beddy said:
He ******* better not be. I haven't had any emails asking for permission
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