After some advice here again.
Project House, Victorian, ground floor lath and plaster ceilings not in brilliant nick (quite flat but many cracks and a few holes where some big footed idiot had the floorboards up upstairs and dropped a hammer or something
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Anyway, rather than drop the old ceilings I was going to batten across the joists (with 2 x 1 roofing batten set to plasterboard centres to minimise cutting etc)- means I can retain the superior sound damping from the weight of all that plaster and a certain amount of joist stiffening from the laths (I'm putting 4 x 2 noggins between the joists anyway to stiffen them up a bit, there's a bit of bounce going on).
I also need to get heating (2 x 22mm) and hot and cold water (2 x 15mm) from the back of the house to the front. I wanted to run them under the landing but there are a couple of trimmers that have been hacked to bits already and I'm reluctant to put more notches in them so plan B was between the joists in the bedroom floors- which I didn't really want to do since there's the risk of circulation noise from the heating disturbing those in the bedrooms.
Plan C (which is where I would like your input) is to batten along the joists (well in the same direction as them) with 2 x 2 and I'll have to do some excess board cutting. Thinking here is add the 2 x 2 depth of the battens to the inch of lath and plaster and that's 3 inches clearance under the trimmers in the landing so I can run all the pipework under the landing and reduce any circulation noise problems in the bedrooms.
Is Plan C going to be worth the effort (and cost- 2 x 2 isn't free) or am I worrying about nothing, lagging all the pipework and making sure there's clearance round all the hot pipes will virtually silence them.
If there were any existing water services in the place at all I wouldn't be worrying but its a full clean install so I'd like to do it as well as possible.
Ta
Project House, Victorian, ground floor lath and plaster ceilings not in brilliant nick (quite flat but many cracks and a few holes where some big footed idiot had the floorboards up upstairs and dropped a hammer or something
)Anyway, rather than drop the old ceilings I was going to batten across the joists (with 2 x 1 roofing batten set to plasterboard centres to minimise cutting etc)- means I can retain the superior sound damping from the weight of all that plaster and a certain amount of joist stiffening from the laths (I'm putting 4 x 2 noggins between the joists anyway to stiffen them up a bit, there's a bit of bounce going on).
I also need to get heating (2 x 22mm) and hot and cold water (2 x 15mm) from the back of the house to the front. I wanted to run them under the landing but there are a couple of trimmers that have been hacked to bits already and I'm reluctant to put more notches in them so plan B was between the joists in the bedroom floors- which I didn't really want to do since there's the risk of circulation noise from the heating disturbing those in the bedrooms.
Plan C (which is where I would like your input) is to batten along the joists (well in the same direction as them) with 2 x 2 and I'll have to do some excess board cutting. Thinking here is add the 2 x 2 depth of the battens to the inch of lath and plaster and that's 3 inches clearance under the trimmers in the landing so I can run all the pipework under the landing and reduce any circulation noise problems in the bedrooms.
Is Plan C going to be worth the effort (and cost- 2 x 2 isn't free) or am I worrying about nothing, lagging all the pipework and making sure there's clearance round all the hot pipes will virtually silence them.
If there were any existing water services in the place at all I wouldn't be worrying but its a full clean install so I'd like to do it as well as possible.
Ta
