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Mixing the original wall board and sheetrock
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 10:52 am
by betty_joanne
Our mobile home has the standard vinyl covered wall board on the inside. Some of these need to be replaced and we were wanting to use sheetrock. Is there are way to make the vinyl wall board and sheetrock go together and not look terrible. Is there a certain size of sheetrock that i need to get so that it is flush with the existing vinyl wall board?
We plan on painting after putting in the new replacement sheetrock and taping/mudding.
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 4:59 pm
by Greg
Try 3/8" sheetrock. if you have a section of the original off, measure the thickness. Greg
RE: Mixing the original wall board and sheetrock
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:35 pm
by Yanita
Hi,
In addition to Greg's answer your sheetrock will have a flat smooth finish, your wall board will have a slight texture. If you check in the BOOKS/PARTS link I believe Mark has a video on how to make your textured wallboard walls smooth.
Yanita
http://mobilehomerepair.com/order.htm#catalog
RE: Mixing the original wall board and sheetrock
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:19 pm
by Trudi
I was wondering about the same thing as Yanita, but then I noticed you said that yours is vinyl covered. Does it have a texture to it, or is it a flat vinyl?
RE: Mixing the original wall board and sheetrock
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:50 pm
by betty_joanne
It has a swirly pattern on it. Pretty sure we won't have it all matching except for the paint color but that is o.k.
RE: Mixing the original wall board and sheetrock
Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 12:51 pm
by Katie
What we did was to sheetrock an entire wall, to the corners. Then when I painted the room you couldn't tell the wall had ever been replaced. The moulding at the top and floor needs to match too, to make it all look "unified".
Katie