I've been looking at a few older houses to renovate recently and found a lot of them have these wooden boards instead of gyprock. Lets say I hated that look and wanted to replace them with actual gyprock, is it as easy as just ripping them off the wall and replacing it with seomthing else?
Another thing thats bugging me is the wooden strip on wall of these old houses. What function do they serve? Is it just to hold the two piece gyprock together or something far more important? If I wanted to, could I just rip off these wooden strips and plaster over it to give it a smooth surface?
One last thing - the old style fancy cornice (is that what it's called??) Are they easily removed and replaced with the more modern clean looking ones?
Thanks
James
Another thing thats bugging me is the wooden strip on wall of these old houses. What function do they serve? Is it just to hold the two piece gyprock together or something far more important? If I wanted to, could I just rip off these wooden strips and plaster over it to give it a smooth surface?
One last thing - the old style fancy cornice (is that what it's called??) Are they easily removed and replaced with the more modern clean looking ones?
Thanks
James