(Using a link instead of picture as not sure if newsgroup allows pictures)

I'm re-doing the bathroom over the next few weeks (months?) and this
includes a builder knocking a big hole in the wall to extend the bathroom.
See the plan in the attached JPEG. I'm not sure how accurate the builder can
be in making the hole the right size (going to ask today) but I envisage a
gap between where the stud wall and the existing brick wall. I'm assuming
it's brick - 100 year old stone cottage, looks about a brick thick.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/munroba.../stud_wall.jpg

How would you go about filling that gap? All the walls in the bathroom will
be tiled but I'd probably like to "make it good". A piece of wood would be
obvious but can you plaster/tile over that? I guess is depends how big the
gap is :-) Maybe a very long thin strip of plasterboard? Even, so they'll
still be a gap - mortar for the bulk of the gap with plaster on top?

Thanks, Rob.

"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote in message
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> (Using a link instead of picture as not sure if newsgroup allows
pictures)

SIC
>
>> Thanks, Rob.

>
Your jpeg has come through ok on your first post.
Will this be the start of a jpeg sending craze !!
I too did not know that the ng supported them.
Cant help with the query - sorry.

Regards
Pete Stockdale

In article <bug9jp$poq$(E-Mail Removed)>, Peter Stockdale
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>
> "Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote in message
>news:rrMOb.6355$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > (Using a link instead of picture as not sure if newsgroup allows
>pictures)
>
> SIC
> >
> >> Thanks, Rob.
>
> >
> Your jpeg has come through ok on your first post.
> Will this be the start of a jpeg sending craze !!
> I too did not know that the ng supported them.

? it doesn't (or at least, most of the news providers don't), and
anyway, he didn't send one, just a link to it on a website...
--
Tim Mitchell

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:21:40 -0000, "Rob Nicholson"
<rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote:

>(Using a link instead of picture as not sure if newsgroup allows pictures)
>
>I'm re-doing the bathroom over the next few weeks (months?) and this
>includes a builder knocking a big hole in the wall to extend the bathroom.
>See the plan in the attached JPEG. I'm not sure how accurate the builder can
>be in making the hole the right size (going to ask today) but I envisage a
>gap between where the stud wall and the existing brick wall. I'm assuming
>it's brick - 100 year old stone cottage, looks about a brick thick.
>
>http://homepage.ntlworld.com/munroba.../stud_wall.jpg
>
>How would you go about filling that gap? All the walls in the bathroom will
>be tiled but I'd probably like to "make it good". A piece of wood would be
>obvious but can you plaster/tile over that? I guess is depends how big the
>gap is :-) Maybe a very long thin strip of plasterboard? Even, so they'll
>still be a gap - mortar for the bulk of the gap with plaster on top?

Sponge rubber soaked in plaster and pushed into the gap and plaster
over?

sPoNiX

Tim Mitchell wrote:
> Your jpeg has come through ok on your first post.
>> Will this be the start of a jpeg sending craze !!
>> I too did not know that the ng supported them.
>
> ? it doesn't (or at least, most of the news providers don't), and
> anyway, he didn't send one, just a link to it on a website...

Freaky. It's there on your first post but I assume that's because it just
stayed on NTLs news server for us.
I believe this NG does not support them & that NTL can't set up a news
server properly.

Back too the question, the stud wall will have some fixings in the gap, I
guess you want something to provide a surface for plastering. If you are
lucky the wall will be cut flush to the stud, if not fill with tightly
balled newspaper, odd bits of board, timber offcuts etc. Just raid the waste
pile and stick some undercoat plaster over that.

--
Toby.

'One day son, all this will be finished'

Christian McArdle wrote:

>>How would you go about filling that gap?
>>
>
> I've got a similar issue coming up. However, I want to wet plaster over a
> similar gap. Does anyone know if low expansion expanding foam is the
> solution, followed by a few cm of bonding plaster?



Leave about an inch depth for bonding plaster and it will be fine.

Yo can even use expned Al mesh instead of foam, or in fact bundled
newpapers or anything similar.

Another thing I have done where I had a deep but not very wide crack, is
foam to within an 1/8" of the top and then decorators caulk.

Its still soft to the touch, but it serves to make a neat paintable job.


>
> Christian.
>
>
>
>
>

"Rob Nicholson" <rob.nicholson@nospam_unforgettable.com> wrote in message
news:rrMOb.6355$(E-Mail Removed)...
> (Using a link instead of picture as not sure if newsgroup allows pictures)
>
> I'm re-doing the bathroom over the next few weeks (months?) and this
> includes a builder knocking a big hole in the wall to extend the bathroom.
> See the plan in the attached JPEG. I'm not sure how accurate the builder
can
> be in making the hole the right size (going to ask today) but I envisage a
> gap between where the stud wall and the existing brick wall. I'm assuming
> it's brick - 100 year old stone cottage, looks about a brick thick.
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/munroba.../stud_wall.jpg
>
> How would you go about filling that gap? All the walls in the bathroom
will
> be tiled but I'd probably like to "make it good". A piece of wood would be
> obvious but can you plaster/tile over that? I guess is depends how big the
> gap is :-) Maybe a very long thin strip of plasterboard? Even, so they'll
> still be a gap - mortar for the bulk of the gap with plaster on top?
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
>

Take the stud wall tight against the brickwork and fill the joints with Ames
tape and plaster.


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> ? it doesn't (or at least, most of the news providers don't), and
> anyway, he didn't send one, just a link to it on a website...

Yes I did - first of all but it didn't appear so realised that many block
binaries.

Rob.

> similar gap. Does anyone know if low expansion expanding foam is the
> solution, followed by a few cm of bonding plaster?

Expanding foam - that's a good idea.

Cheers, Rob.

Rob Nicholson wrote:
>
> > ? it doesn't (or at least, most of the news providers don't), and
> > anyway, he didn't send one, just a link to it on a website...
>
> Yes I did - first of all but it didn't appear so realised that many block
> binaries.
>
It is considered bad netiquette by many people, to post binaries to
non-binary groups.