Hi All,
I have a small box room in which I wish to lower the ceiling slightly in order to put in recessed lighting.
The room is about 2.3m wide by 3m long. The two walls at either end which are 2.3m long are drywall, the others are normal walls.
I plan to fit battens around the top of the room, with joists spanning the 2.3m at intervals, and then fit 12.5mm plasterboard. However, I am nervous about attaching anything to the dry walls at either end, can I just fit a joist flush against the wall at either end instead?
Secondly, what spacing must the joists be? I plan to use three sheets of tapered edge 2.4m x 1.2m board. Afterwards I would ideally like to paint straight onto the boards as I understand you can do this, but will I have to screw into the boards halfway along their span to fix them, or just at the edges? How should the screws be hidden if this is the case? Or is this just not the way to do it? I presume the screws at the edges will be hidden by the filler.
Cheers!
I have a small box room in which I wish to lower the ceiling slightly in order to put in recessed lighting.
The room is about 2.3m wide by 3m long. The two walls at either end which are 2.3m long are drywall, the others are normal walls.
I plan to fit battens around the top of the room, with joists spanning the 2.3m at intervals, and then fit 12.5mm plasterboard. However, I am nervous about attaching anything to the dry walls at either end, can I just fit a joist flush against the wall at either end instead?
Secondly, what spacing must the joists be? I plan to use three sheets of tapered edge 2.4m x 1.2m board. Afterwards I would ideally like to paint straight onto the boards as I understand you can do this, but will I have to screw into the boards halfway along their span to fix them, or just at the edges? How should the screws be hidden if this is the case? Or is this just not the way to do it? I presume the screws at the edges will be hidden by the filler.
Cheers!