Hi there,
I've removed the old textured paint and skim coat plaster from my ceiling leaving me with the original plasterboards underneath. They are a little damaged so I will be overboarding them for ease - dont want to take them down due to the mess and hassle.
I know with then new boards that I should stagger them differently to the originals so the joins aren't in the same place.
However, when I was removing the old plaster, I had to remove the old style hessian joint tape along the original joins too. So now I can fit a small screwdriver tip through the gaps where the hessian tape would have previously been.
Should I use 'scrim tape' on the joins of the original boards underneath before I overboard it? I thought that doing this would help strengthen the original ceiling first before I overboard with the new to help reduce the chance of cracks in future. When overboarding i'll be using screws and then getting a plasterer in to do the rest.
Or do I not need to bother?
Also, I made an 8" hole in the original ceiling when I stripped it back (someone had lights there previously and filled the hole with filla which all came down when I was chipping away) - I wasn't going to bother doing anything with this as the new boards will cover it......right?
I've removed the old textured paint and skim coat plaster from my ceiling leaving me with the original plasterboards underneath. They are a little damaged so I will be overboarding them for ease - dont want to take them down due to the mess and hassle.
I know with then new boards that I should stagger them differently to the originals so the joins aren't in the same place.
However, when I was removing the old plaster, I had to remove the old style hessian joint tape along the original joins too. So now I can fit a small screwdriver tip through the gaps where the hessian tape would have previously been.
Should I use 'scrim tape' on the joins of the original boards underneath before I overboard it? I thought that doing this would help strengthen the original ceiling first before I overboard with the new to help reduce the chance of cracks in future. When overboarding i'll be using screws and then getting a plasterer in to do the rest.
Or do I not need to bother?
Also, I made an 8" hole in the original ceiling when I stripped it back (someone had lights there previously and filled the hole with filla which all came down when I was chipping away) - I wasn't going to bother doing anything with this as the new boards will cover it......right?