I've just removed some kitchen wall tiles with the SDS. I'm not familiar with the construction of plasterboard. The adhesive on the back of the tiles appeaers to have taken off the top layer of board, leaving a brown surface a little like torn card (not gone through to the plaster).
I'm hoping that this convoluted description will enable someone to tell me if this can be painted straight onto, or if not, what treatment it needs first. Surely it doesn't need skimming?
Antony
I am supprised you have not gone into the plasterboard centre since it is not that tough! If not then well done ;-)
Depends a bit on what you want to do with the surface next. To get a decent paint surface you could probably line it with lining paper first. To re-tile you could give it a coat of dilute PVA and then get sticking. It is is in a really poor state then sticking another thin sheet (9mm) of plasterboard to it first would fix it.
There are places where I have, but these can be patched up easily. :)
With regard to the lining paper, is this likely to look bad (or even visible) once painted, if I only apply the paper where it's needed to cover damage? Large parts of the wall are still fine.
Antony
Yes, it will look horrid.
My nesserver seems to have dropped this post....
If there is substantial marking to the plasterboard then yes it will look pretty bad. However slight imperfections may be improved with paper.
Failing that give a quick coat of emulsion, and then use a wide taping knife and a bag of artex as a fine surface filler to fix any blemishes. Once dry sand again and then paint.
(Artex is a dirt cheap filler and sands easily when used like this)
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