Recent content by pulck

This is incredibly helpful - thank you! I don't have a multitool but could I cut out the square using a combination of drilling out corners and a Stanley knife? I'm also wondering if putting in the batten will help with the screw pops, since presumably it will add to the plasterboard's rigidity.

The screws are definitely at an angle. When I remove them, they are pointing in towards the corner of the wall. As I mentioned before, they are very long and only bite right at the end of their range, suggesting the timber stud is strangely placed. Also as I mentioned before, I tried driving a...

To be honest, when I push against the wall I can't see any movement. However, I suppose it only takes fractional movement over the months for the screws to pop.

Do you think that the screws being so long and at an angle means that the plasterboard will always be slightly loose, hence the screw pops? If so, I don't see how I can resolve this, even if I move them. The screwheads will always go too deep into the plasterboard if they're at an angle, won't...

Thanks for the considered reply. Given my lack of expertise, if I cut out a square, what is the best way to repair afterwards?

I previously tried driving in a 75mm drywall screen just beneath one of the existing screws. I drove it in straight/perpendicular, not at an angle, and it never bit. There's clearly just a void directly behind these screws. Could it be that the stud somehow sits in the corner of the wall...

Exactly! That's why I'm asking what the purpose of these screws is - so that I can get to the bottom of what's causing the screw pops. They are drywall screws and, as I said before, they are driven in at an angle, quite deep into the plaster. And when I try removing and reinserting them, they...

Would you mind explaining why this will help? The existing screws are already pretty deep in the plaster. Will making them deeper stop the screw pops happening? Also, I would love to understand what these screws are actually doing.

The existing screws are drywall screws. So when I remove one, the hole is too wide for any very short screws I have to bite at all, so I'm not sure what this would prove. I can tell you that the existing screws any bite right at the end of driving them in. Doesn't that suggest there's timber...

I've been hand tightening. I have an impact driver but didn't think it a good idea to over tighten, right?

I just assumed there was plasterboard but maybe not. If that's the case, what are these screws for?

I had a loft conversion done a few years ago. About a year later, I started getting screw pops along one edge of a bathroom wall. (The bathroom is at the rear of the dormer and this is the rear wall.) Someone told me to scrape out the plaster over the affected areas, tighten the screws behind...

Good point!

Yes, will try that. But just to clarify, I've spent so many hours in communication with Thames about this now that I'd just be happy for them to acknowledge there's no leak.

They have me over a barrel. They claim I used over 40K litres of water in 4 days last November. They say they might give me "leak allowance" if I can prove I don't have a leak. It's Kafkaesque!