Plastering over fibreboard?

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We are doing a 1950 house up and have had a couple of quotes from some plasterers; one has said we need to plasterboard over the Fibreboard as it is highly flammable and the other has said we can skim straight over the fibreboard he'll just PVA it first and then skim it?

Advice needed please.....as we want it done properly!

Thanks!
 
take the lot down and replace it with 12.5mm plasterboard using insulation wherever you can fit it.... while youre at it, get it re-wired and re-plumbed with a new boiler.. :rolleyes) to do it properly...
 
Thanks for advice, a bit more info on the work we are doing. Electrics/plumbing etc. is in the process of being done just stuck on the plastering...We have plaster boarded the small bedroom (started on that 1st) as there were big cracks and (lovely??!!) polystyrene tiles on.. we have taken down etc. but the one plasterer said we don't have to do that for the landing ceiling (it doesn't have the polystyrene tiles just fibre board) as its a waste of time he'll skim over the fibre board. Is it OK to do this, is it common practice? I have heard fibre board is highly flammable and the plaster wont stick properly?

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just drop it and reboard it mate.... plasterboard is a fiver a sheet... fibreboard isnt designed to be plastered...
 
Yeah i was reading that all the way through thinking it was fire board and thinking whats the problem skimming fire board :RpS_laugh:
 
I attempted to artex fibreboard years ago. It was like artexing a cardboard box. Hellish stuff that was quickly dropped by the building trade, once they realised how shite it was.
 
anyone come across a kind of thin insulation board used as ceiling board? went to do an artex reskim a year or two ago and started to lay on... bloody board started to sag like f'ck so i sticks me head in the loft to see what the hells goin on?...
well it turns out its like an early version of cellotex, i never seen it before or since but its 1/2" thick orange insulation, foil backed both sides then the 'artex' was just rolled on underneath... wont hold fixings properly which is why it sagged...
had to drop the lot and reboard, but to beat that... the loft insulation was loose fill rockwool...
to say i wasnt too happy that day is a bit of an understatement...
 
Chris W said:
anyone come across a kind of thin insulation board used as ceiling board? went to do an artex reskim a year or two ago and started to lay on... bloody board started to sag like f'ck so i sticks me head in the loft to see what the hells goin on?...
well it turns out its like an early version of cellotex, i never seen it before or since but its 1/2" thick orange insulation, foil backed both sides then the 'artex' was just rolled on underneath... wont hold fixings properly which is why it sagged...
had to drop the lot and reboard, but to beat that... the loft insulation was loose fill rockwool...
to say i wasnt too happy that day is a bit of an understatement...
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What a nightmare mate never know whats going to happen next:-0
 
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