Polistyrine celing tiles? Time to go. Nightmare?

[Alex evans]

Hi there all not sure if this belongs in this section.

Ive got old polistyrine celing tiles. Il try n get a picture or 2 soon.
There on the hallway a d landing ceiling.
There a fire hazerd (i assume) and look pretty naff anyways

How hard (from experience) do you think it would be to remove?

What would be the best way? Big scrapper n hack the ****e out of it, what should i expect underneath? Smooth plaster or would i need to skim over maybe?

Thank you for any replays

Al

 

[OwainDIYer]

In the bad old days they used to fix them up with 5 blobs of glue so you can probably lever them off fairly easily. Later on they started spreading the glue all over the tile to try and reduce the dropping burning plastic effect in a fire.

What is your underlying ceiling? Often the tiles were used to conceal a poor quality ceiling anyway. If it's plasterboard and skim you might be lucky and just pull off lumps of skim. If it's lath and plasterr don't be surp[rised if the plaster starts coming off the laths, in which case remove tiles from around any electric cables and make good with plaster, then encase the whole blinking lot in new plasterboard.

 

[Alex evans]

Dont know what the underlying cealing is, as moved in recently. Sod it. Im gonner hack a bit n see what happens!!!

Stay tuned?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I'm on the edge of my seat.

 

[Alex evans]

 

[Alex evans]

Beware the light. Am i right?