Recent content by em63

Photo showing boxed-in beam.

Thanks for your response Deluks. Your suggestion of 50mm battens is of course much easier than my proposal but it would still leave me with a two-level ceiling and I really do want the flat ceiling at the end of it all. If my current plans are achievable, the new ceiling height would be around...

My kitchen ceiling has a 'step' where a steel beam has been inserted to support the upper part of a chimney breast. I want to lower the main area of this ceiling - by around 8 inches - so that it is level with the underside of this steel beam, so providing a single flat surface. [I don't really...