Novice after advice

[lex]

Hello, i'm a total novice after a bit of advice so please excuse my lack knowledge. this websites quality though-i've learnt alot so far, cheers to everyone that's on here. I did a 4 day course last year just so that i could do a few rooms in my house at the time which turned out well, but all it was was plastering onto drylining which was already there so luckily not too much to think about. Haven't really done anything since though and a friend's asked me to help in take the plaster off a wall in their house down to the brick and re-plaster it. The wall backs onto the garden but i'm doing the inside (would i still call that an exterior wall?). - problem is i'm not 100% sure what i should be doing. They know i'm no expert so i'm just helping them out. I'm not a tradesmen or anything so it's still all new to me and any help'd be much appreciated.

..After reading on here about plastering on to brick i'm under the impression there are two options-

Dot and dab plasterboard onto the wall (pva first?), tape up, seal with jointing compound and skim.
or
use hardwall (2 coats?) and then skim

..the wall backs onto the garden so would it need some kind of damp proofing at the bottom? -and if so what's the best way to go about it?

Is hardwalling hard to do?

Any pointers well welcomed, cheers.

PS. i've got a couple of pictures which might help but don't know how to put them up here. If anyone knows if i can do that or how it be well handy cheers.

 

[nicksey1401]

yes you'd still call it in an external wall mate but its internall.............does taht make sense
as long as the walls twin skinned and theres no obvious damp issues which i reckon will be 90% not, use hardwall or dot and dab it mate ...........put youre beads up nice and level, be carefull not to hack off parts of any walls you dont want to and i'd give the background a wetting down with water or a light pva coat before you hardwall it

 

[bigsegs]

id dot and dab it if youve never hardwalled mate, it'll make sure you get it flat...
to post a pic you need to post it somewhere else, say open a 'shutterfly' account (free) and post it there, or maybe photopic.com something like that...
when its on their site, left click on the pic as its displayed and go to properties...
look for the url (www.photopic.com/yournamewhateverelse) copy that...
look at the icons above the posting box as you make a post and find 'post image'
click that itll bring up ''
paste your link (what you copied from your displayed picture on photopic www.etc) in between the two **here**
and post
like nicksey says, if it aint an old house, solid 9"/13" walls you should be fine to d+d

 

[dpbeds]

I agree with segs.
Did you do any floating on the course or was it all skimming?