Guys, I need to get my bathroom ceiling repaired, and I will be paying a plasterer to do the work, but I need some advice please. (apologies for this, I know nothing about DIY so please go easy !)
Our upstairs b/room ceiling has two old light fittings in the ceiling, and both of these fittings are so loose that they are now hanging down and have left 6 inch circular holes in the original plaster board. The bathroom ceiling also has other holes for extractor fan, fan pull switch and light pull switch.
We also have the dreaded artex on the ceiling. Once I temporarily remove all these electrical fittings my plan is to get new p/board installed on top of existing artex, and then have the new p/board skimmed smooth with new plaster.
The main problem I have is that we have coving on the ceiling, and shower tiling has been installed right up to the coving. Therefore I would like to leave the coving in place, but this might then look odd when the new board goes on (because the new board is obviously going to effectively lower the ceiling height by the thickness of the board and skim and not blend with the coving). Is there an easy way to blend the new ceiling into the existing coving with some sort of filler??!
Hope this makes sense.
Our upstairs b/room ceiling has two old light fittings in the ceiling, and both of these fittings are so loose that they are now hanging down and have left 6 inch circular holes in the original plaster board. The bathroom ceiling also has other holes for extractor fan, fan pull switch and light pull switch.
We also have the dreaded artex on the ceiling. Once I temporarily remove all these electrical fittings my plan is to get new p/board installed on top of existing artex, and then have the new p/board skimmed smooth with new plaster.
The main problem I have is that we have coving on the ceiling, and shower tiling has been installed right up to the coving. Therefore I would like to leave the coving in place, but this might then look odd when the new board goes on (because the new board is obviously going to effectively lower the ceiling height by the thickness of the board and skim and not blend with the coving). Is there an easy way to blend the new ceiling into the existing coving with some sort of filler??!
Hope this makes sense.
