Do You Skim Dot and Dab

This is a method of fixing plasterboard to walls when dry lining plasterboard over masonry or stone walls rather than wet plaster with a base coat plaster and then skim plaster. The dot and dab method fixes the boards to the wall and then they are skimmed over.

Can you drill into dot and dab?

A lot of folk think you can’t use expanding metal anchors on a dot & dab wall but you absolutely can. You just need to make your initial hole deep enough that the anchor can be fully inserted prior to opening it up using a setting tool.

Can you dot and dab over Artex?

Take off any sharp edges of the artexed walls using a scraper. It is possible to “dot and dab” the plaster boards and fix to wall areas. Once dry boards can be decorated.