kitchen ceiling
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jimrich, good evening.
Can you tell us what age is the flat?
The pictures look like the plaster is Lath and Plaster but not easy to tell?
If the ceiling is Lath and Plaster, then you may consider locating the joists, use a Magnet, stronger the better and the magnet will be attracted to the nails holding the laths to the Joists, mark the position using a pencil.
At this point, you could fix some thin straps of timber flat on to the plaster, screw the straps into the joists, or?
Using the pencil marks [put plenty of them on when using the magnet] you can simply so called overboard, that is screw fix plasterboard over the entire old ceiling screwing the plasterboard through the old Lath and Plaster into the joists.
Watch the length of the Screws, it is a two man [minimum] job
Advantages of over boarding. cheap, as you wanted. and you should not have all the fuss of the mess of the removal of the existing old damaged ceiling, removal of an old Lath and Plaster ceiling is really messy.
Finish can be a skim coat of plaster.
Hope this assists or gives you some Ideas?
Can you tell us what age is the flat?
The pictures look like the plaster is Lath and Plaster but not easy to tell?
If the ceiling is Lath and Plaster, then you may consider locating the joists, use a Magnet, stronger the better and the magnet will be attracted to the nails holding the laths to the Joists, mark the position using a pencil.
At this point, you could fix some thin straps of timber flat on to the plaster, screw the straps into the joists, or?
Using the pencil marks [put plenty of them on when using the magnet] you can simply so called overboard, that is screw fix plasterboard over the entire old ceiling screwing the plasterboard through the old Lath and Plaster into the joists.
Watch the length of the Screws, it is a two man [minimum] job
Advantages of over boarding. cheap, as you wanted. and you should not have all the fuss of the mess of the removal of the existing old damaged ceiling, removal of an old Lath and Plaster ceiling is really messy.
Finish can be a skim coat of plaster.
Hope this assists or gives you some Ideas?
Thankyou both for reply. This is all new to me so overboarding and skimming seems rather daunting but if thats the only way to make it look good! The flat was built early 1970's and as mentioned you are right that the rest of the ceiling is not as bad but not perfect either.
Poking a screwdriver through the cracks seems there is about 1" of ceiling (sorry I have no idea what it is constructed of) then about 3" gap before presumably hitting the bottom of the floor to the upstairs flat.
Poking a screwdriver through the cracks seems there is about 1" of ceiling (sorry I have no idea what it is constructed of) then about 3" gap before presumably hitting the bottom of the floor to the upstairs flat.
Overboard and skim.....there's likely to have been some heavy duty work above to produce cracks like that!
Nowt of a job for a plastering team.....in and out in a day if its just one room.
John
Nowt of a job for a plastering team.....in and out in a day if its just one room.
John
How tight is the budget, and what are you doing it for you, sale or rent? The cheapest and easiest thing is 'paper over the cracks'... rack out the cracks, fill with bonding, and then use a coarse paper to line it. I'd personally do it properly though, depending on your situation
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