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Hi Everyone:
Don't know if anyone can help, but I'm struggling with how to plasterboard around a Velux window.
The ceiling that the windows are in is going to be plasterboarded. I'm fixing the boards to battens using plasterboard screws. My plan is to plasterboard the reveals using the groove in the Velux window frame to hold one edge of the board. The other edge I'll screw to the edge of the battens on the ceiling. Should I finish this edge level with the surface of the battens so that the piece of plasterboard on the ceiling covers the edge of the reveal plasterboard? Or, should I trim the ceiling board back and cut the reveal plasterboard wide enough to cover up the end of the ceiling board?
The first method looks intuitively right to me, but it means the screws will go in about 1/2 inch from the edge of the board. The second method means there will be about an inch between where the screws go in and the edge of the board, but it somehow doesn't look right.
Which ever way I do it, I'll finish the edge with one of those edging strips that plasterers use to reinforce corners and provide a guide for skimming.
Cheers,
----------------------- Doc
Don't know if anyone can help, but I'm struggling with how to plasterboard around a Velux window.
The ceiling that the windows are in is going to be plasterboarded. I'm fixing the boards to battens using plasterboard screws. My plan is to plasterboard the reveals using the groove in the Velux window frame to hold one edge of the board. The other edge I'll screw to the edge of the battens on the ceiling. Should I finish this edge level with the surface of the battens so that the piece of plasterboard on the ceiling covers the edge of the reveal plasterboard? Or, should I trim the ceiling board back and cut the reveal plasterboard wide enough to cover up the end of the ceiling board?
The first method looks intuitively right to me, but it means the screws will go in about 1/2 inch from the edge of the board. The second method means there will be about an inch between where the screws go in and the edge of the board, but it somehow doesn't look right.
Which ever way I do it, I'll finish the edge with one of those edging strips that plasterers use to reinforce corners and provide a guide for skimming.
Cheers,
----------------------- Doc