Hi,
I have a room where there is a hairline crack which runs around the entire ceiling about a foot from the wall. This corresponds with joins in the sheet rock. It is 50's construction, it has been plaster skimmed all over but there is no hessian tape over the joins apart from wall corners. There's no texture, it's smooth. I've tried cutting out the join and filling with polyfilla, then sanding in the past, but all the cracks have come back.
I'm thinking of cutting out the cracked skim plaster to about a 1/2 inch, fill with a builder's grab adhesive and smooth it off (like grip fill), then tape, mud and sand smooth as you would drywall. Will that work, and stop them coming back?
I have a room where there is a hairline crack which runs around the entire ceiling about a foot from the wall. This corresponds with joins in the sheet rock. It is 50's construction, it has been plaster skimmed all over but there is no hessian tape over the joins apart from wall corners. There's no texture, it's smooth. I've tried cutting out the join and filling with polyfilla, then sanding in the past, but all the cracks have come back.
I'm thinking of cutting out the cracked skim plaster to about a 1/2 inch, fill with a builder's grab adhesive and smooth it off (like grip fill), then tape, mud and sand smooth as you would drywall. Will that work, and stop them coming back?