After doing DIY on my old dusty victorian house, I am convinced that the greatest invention mankind has ever made is plasterboard.
This is what old houses were made of before plasterboard: these are the wall beams decorated with thousands of wooden slats that you’d then apply a thick render on to make a wall (we’re looking from the otherside)
I’ve had to rip these little bastards out and their shitting nails one by one, coating myself and the entire house with dust just to get access to the damn beams.
Once exposed, I bought some fucking plasterboard like a normal human being, cut it to size using nothing but a pen knife, and then fixed it to the beams like I was hanging up a painting.
Easiest thing in the world, looks great, easy to remove later for repairs, piece of piss:
I watched a cool video that covered this/the history of wall coverings not too long ago! Been a few weeks, but I think that old style involved horsehair mixed with plaster that they basically just slopped onto the walls.
After doing DIY on my old dusty victorian house, I am convinced that the greatest invention mankind has ever made is plasterboard.
This is what old houses were made of before plasterboard: these are the wall beams decorated with thousands of wooden slats that you’d then apply a thick render on to make a wall (we’re looking from the otherside)
I’ve had to rip these little bastards out and their shitting nails one by one, coating myself and the entire house with dust just to get access to the damn beams.
Once exposed, I bought some fucking plasterboard like a normal human being, cut it to size using nothing but a pen knife, and then fixed it to the beams like I was hanging up a painting.
Easiest thing in the world, looks great, easy to remove later for repairs, piece of piss:
why dyou have to come at me like that, du pimmel
was hab ich das verdient
xD
I’m with you on this. But back in the day, they could have done the same thing with like regular boards.
That’s true… and why in heck didn’t they?
I watched a cool video that covered this/the history of wall coverings not too long ago! Been a few weeks, but I think that old style involved horsehair mixed with plaster that they basically just slopped onto the walls.
If you’re interested: https://youtu.be/oepbuBGHEHM
That was super interesting, thank you!