tryhard67
24th June 2007, 04:58 PM
Hi all,
First post (please be gentle!). I am painting a rumpus room ceiling (to be a home theatre room) and am in the prep stage, fixing cracks etc.. The ceiling plasterboard which abuts a feature brick wall, for about a 1.5-2 metres part of its length, is sagging about 1-2 centimetres. This is very noticable because of the brickwork of course. Ceiling height is 2.36 metres.
My mate who is doing the painting has tried to repair it but we have run into problems: right at the edge, where the sag occurs, we have no crossbeams to work with to use as supports for the plasterboard. It would appear there is some weird timber duct as part of the heating system which runs down the length of the room at this edge and the crossbeams have been cut away for about 18" from the brick wall to accomodate this. Where the crossbeams are accessible (further into the ceiling), the plaster seems very firmly attached already.
Its a split level place, so we cannot access the sagging bit through the ceiling without damaging the floor above. When you push the sagging plaster up, it holds/grips for a while, but I guess the continual expanding/contracting of the ducted heating is causing it to drop down again the next day.
The ducted heating vents which come off this stupid in floor/ceiling channel are pretty hopeless (hardly any heat at all), but I can live with that problem.
Any ideas anyone on what to do to repair or disguise the sagging ceiling? It doesn't seem to be getting any worse, it just looks really horrible. Many thanks for any clues.
Cheers.
First post (please be gentle!). I am painting a rumpus room ceiling (to be a home theatre room) and am in the prep stage, fixing cracks etc.. The ceiling plasterboard which abuts a feature brick wall, for about a 1.5-2 metres part of its length, is sagging about 1-2 centimetres. This is very noticable because of the brickwork of course. Ceiling height is 2.36 metres.
My mate who is doing the painting has tried to repair it but we have run into problems: right at the edge, where the sag occurs, we have no crossbeams to work with to use as supports for the plasterboard. It would appear there is some weird timber duct as part of the heating system which runs down the length of the room at this edge and the crossbeams have been cut away for about 18" from the brick wall to accomodate this. Where the crossbeams are accessible (further into the ceiling), the plaster seems very firmly attached already.
Its a split level place, so we cannot access the sagging bit through the ceiling without damaging the floor above. When you push the sagging plaster up, it holds/grips for a while, but I guess the continual expanding/contracting of the ducted heating is causing it to drop down again the next day.
The ducted heating vents which come off this stupid in floor/ceiling channel are pretty hopeless (hardly any heat at all), but I can live with that problem.
Any ideas anyone on what to do to repair or disguise the sagging ceiling? It doesn't seem to be getting any worse, it just looks really horrible. Many thanks for any clues.
Cheers.