My daughters house has lath and plaster ceilings in poor condition upstairs and there is an angle on the ceiling where the roof rafters must come slightly into the rooms.
If we could lower the ceilings by about 100mm it would take that angle out, rather than simply overboarding.
Could we screw a 4x2 through the current ceilings and into the joist above (guessing they are 3x2’s) and if so would you go along the same line as the existing joists or across them?
I can’t really bolt anything to the walls because of the angled bits on 2 sides and those hollow blocks on the other 2 sides. Bit hard to see on this pic but that’s the room before she stripped it:
If we could lower the ceilings by about 100mm it would take that angle out, rather than simply overboarding.
Could we screw a 4x2 through the current ceilings and into the joist above (guessing they are 3x2’s) and if so would you go along the same line as the existing joists or across them?
I can’t really bolt anything to the walls because of the angled bits on 2 sides and those hollow blocks on the other 2 sides. Bit hard to see on this pic but that’s the room before she stripped it: