Re-boarding ceiling

[thebraketester]

We've got to reboard the ceiling in the 15th bedroom on the 3rd floor of the eastern wing.

Is is best to batton the existing plasterboard and then overboard or it is best to just put new plasterboards straight over the existing ones?

Can't decide what to do.

Rich

[hobbiniho1]

if it is straight/flat and you know where the beams are them i would just board straight over the existing

[B17NNS]

Find the joists and go straight over the existing. Stagger your boards brickwork style.

[marcusgrant]

Overboard it

[thebraketester]

Lovely. Locate the beams and overboard.

Thanks guys.

[loughran]

Hire/buy a platerboard lift.



I wish I had.

[wolfracesonic]

Another vote for overboarding: Go round the edges of the walls to find the joist ends (I use a 6'' nail punched through the old ceiling to find them) they're usually 16''-18'' apart and more often than not run perpendicular to the front of the property. When you've found the ends, snap a chalk line between them and fix with drywall screws. Are you skimming it as well?

[dickymint]

Question is why do you have to fit new boards?

[Cerbhd]

Yep,as long as it's already flattish then get your butler to overboard it

[battered]

dickymint said:

Question is why do you have to fit new boards?

The Filipino domestics in the loft space are cracking the existing ceiling with their walking back and forth every time he rings the bell.

[hairyben]

loughran said:

Hire/buy a platerboard lift.



I wish I had.

Bit overkill for the spare bedroom.

You can get a long jack that uses the same mech as a mastic gun thats probably a bit more DIY priced.

Also a plasterboard carrier makes an awkward job a lot less faff.

[dickymint]

battered said:

dickymint said:

Question is why do you have to fit new boards?

The Filipino domestics in the loft space are cracking the existing ceiling with their walking back and forth every time he rings the bell.

Good reason to overboard

These are good..........

http://www.belmoretools.co.uk/acatalog/BoardMate_-...

[thebraketester]

Reboarding because the old ceiling is artex and the boards has cracked. We could probably get away with out doing it but I would like it to be back to "new" to match the other 14 rooms front bedroom.

[dickymint]

thebraketester said:

Reboarding because the old ceiling is artex and the boards has cracked. We could probably get away with out doing it but I would like it to be back to "new" to match the other 14 rooms front bedroom.

I've done a few Artex jobs in the past just by scraping off the "snots". Easy enough but everybody seams to crap themselves due to (very low levels) the asbestos in the older stuff.

[thebraketester]

No asbestos worry... we had it all tested when we did the kitchen.

[megaphone]

Use the smaller 1800x900 boards, they are a lot easier to handle, I did my bedroom on my own, used a wooden prop to hold them up as I screwed. The Maid, found it easy to carry them up to her attic room.

[jas xjr]

Please overboard. I filled 23 heavy duty rubble sacks with all the crap that came down when I removed the old boards. Most of which seemed to be soot.
Might be worth just getting the ceiling skimmed,if not too bad. Ours had had a leak and was rotten

[thebraketester]

megaphone said:

Use the smaller 1800x900 boards, they are a lot easier to handle, I did my bedroom on my own, used a wooden prop to hold them up as I screwed. The Maid, found it easy to carry them up to her attic room.

I was actually going to use the 2.7m boards as it means we can do it in single spans.

[B17NNS]

These are handy when boarding ceilings:

http://www.screwfix.com/p/extension-support-rod/14...

[Gtom]

Brave and pointless if you are skimming it.