plasterboard ceiling

Hi, An extension with a flat roof has been built and BC wants insulated plasterboard installed on top of a vcl for the ceiling. The plasterer suggested rather than using insulated plasterboard 35mm (...

The stay at home situation has made me think about sorting out a home office pretty sharpish, and I plan to finish an outbuilding conversion started by previous owners. They had trades in and got most of the way there apart from the ceiling. My plan is to keep things simple and frame across...

Good evening all, We are currently in the process of having a loft extension. First the good news - the plastering in the actual loft space and new stairway seems to have been done quite well - I have no complaints, and am genuinely quite looking forward to giving it a mist coat and...

Hi, I have started redo my bathroom and after removing units and tiles from the floor it had uncovered damaged pipe that was leaking slight moisture into the ply the tiles were lied on and underlying floorboards. The floorboard had dried, but still looked nasty, so I wanted to replace them...

Hi all, Complete newbie here, apologies. Redecorating a house with plasterboard ceilings, with a skim plaster finish. There are a few straight hairline cracks passing through a number of them, so I need to repair these before decorating. Very stupid question but should I use Toupret powder...

Hi, Im looking to convert half of my detached garage into a study. I have confirmed with local Building Control and the Planning department that I do not require planning permission or building regs as it conforms with permitted development. Even so I want to build to regulations completely. Im...

Hi, Probably a pretty basic question I’m over thinking but,... better to know. I’ve used taper edge plaster board on wall before, but never on ceilings, and need to overboard a ceiling soon. How do you deal with joining the non tapered edges of the boards? Eg the short edges? Or is it...

Hi there, I've a couple of bedroom ceilings (with loft above) which are some kind of woodfibre boards. They're reasonably flat, but a bit shabby, and not fireproof. Joists are 400mm centres We're planning to overboard with plasterboard, and then have them skimmed - am I right is saying we...

Hello I'm wondering whether anyone can give me any advice. We recently (mid/late August) had all of our walls and ceilings downstairs re-skimmed. Since then, a long, straight hairline crack has appeared in the kitchen ceiling. In the dining room, 2 long hairline cracks have appeared running...

We are currently refurbishing our bathroom and installing a new suspended plasterboard ceiling to replace a suspended tongue & groove ceiling. When removing the t&g ceiling this evening, I noticed that the old lath & plaster ceiling above has a large hole in the plaster, about 50 x 80cm...

Hi all. Looking for some sound advice regarding plasterboard. I've decided to convert my garage into a more useable space however I'm no DIY expert hence the name :). I thought why not try it. What's the worst that can happen. I've done alot of reading/research online and thought the easiest...

New ceiling. Room is about 5m x 2m - battens running lengthways along the 5m, 40cm centres. Thinking of using 8' x 4' tapered edge plasterboard, trimming the length of the boards to the 2m width of the room and fixing across the battens. The end result would look a bit like a ladder in my mind...