texturing plaster to look like woodchip?

[skadster]

Hi all,

I am putting up a ceiling fan in my living room but the existing light wasn't on a joist, just attached to the lath through the plaster. I had to knock a hole in the ceiling to find the joist as the fan weighs about twenty pounds, but as the house is about a hundred years old the plaster just fell from the lath without barely hitting it, this has created a hole about eight/nine inches in diameter. The ceiling has woodchip on it, but i dont want to strip a whole ceiling for a nine inch hole, so i was wondering if you could recommend a plaster that i could use to texture like woodchip and how easy is it to texture plaster to look like woodchip? the plaster is about 10 mill deep if that helps, thanks

 

[stuart45]

Its probably easier to plaster it and then use artex over the patch or a textured paint over the whole ceiliing. However if your plastering is anything like mine it will look like woodchip anyway.

 

[roy c]

Why dont you buy a roll of wood-chip paper to match existing and cut a piece out of it stick it on the ceiling temporary and draw around it then cut that section out and put your new piece in??? Easy eh?

 

[gday2uk]

I had to knock a hole in the ceiling to find the joist as the fan weighs about twenty pounds, but as the house is about a hundred years old the plaster just fell from the lath without barely hitting it, this has created a hole about eight/nine inches in diameter.

Why didn't you just drill some small holes? You can feel when you hit a joist and are much easier to fill afterwards

 

[skadster]

Why dont you buy a roll of wood-chip paper to match existing and cut a piece out of it stick it on the ceiling temporary and draw around it then cut that section out and put your new piece in??? Easy eh?

I would have done that mate, but the existing woodchip has completly bonded with the plaster as it's been up there that long, could get real messy!

Gday2uk :Why didn't you just drill some small holes? You can feel when you hit a joist and are much easier to fill afterwards

I would have done that Gday, but the joist is not sitting centre of the room so i had to bridge out the joist using 4x2's.

Thanks for all suggestions, just going fill the initial hole with plaster, leave it shy of level and use that 3/4 mm gap to try and get it close to wood chip, thanks all.