Front bedroom of my victorian semi is
A)Very cold
B)And has old lath and plaster ceiling and old cracked coving..
I don't want to take ceiling down because of the mess but thinking about lowering the ceiling. Room is 11 foot tall and so hard to heat with rads.
So was thinking of taking off original coving and fitting joists below current ceiling and fitting 100mm of celotex between new joists, re plasterboarding and fitting new coving etc. Any thoughts on how to secure joists to wall and depth of joists? Room is 4m by 5.5m in plan.
A)Very cold
B)And has old lath and plaster ceiling and old cracked coving..
I don't want to take ceiling down because of the mess but thinking about lowering the ceiling. Room is 11 foot tall and so hard to heat with rads.
So was thinking of taking off original coving and fitting joists below current ceiling and fitting 100mm of celotex between new joists, re plasterboarding and fitting new coving etc. Any thoughts on how to secure joists to wall and depth of joists? Room is 4m by 5.5m in plan.