ceilings

I’m currently installing lats to attach my insulated plasterboard to and wondered what spacings I should use. For contexts I have under-boarded the rafters with 100mm insulation. Now attaching lats (1x2) to the rafters through the insulation with 200mm screws. The insulated plasterboard is...

New to the forum, we have a cottage in Norfolk which had a wood burner in the kitchen, the flue runs upwards through a studwork and plaster board cupboard in the bedroom above. It then goes through a sloped ceiling and out of the tiled roof. Happy to leave the chimney part in the roof but want...

I'm currently re-securing the ceiling in our bedroom as it has a bulge above the bed that is disconcerting. I've managed to find the joists either side of the loft hatch but cannot for the life of me find one between them, it's a gap of almost a meter. Any ideas? Is it possible that there are...

Hi. So some of you may have seen my other posts on our hallway rennovation of our 1920s semi. Well it's been back to brick and laths for a couple of months now and we are not getting anywhere! I had to let our agreed builder go, before he put it back together, as I learnt that it had lime...

Hi all, I’ve recently bought a property, built in 1985, and whilst I had a building survey carried out prior to buying it, there was an element regarding the roof missed and so I wanted to gain some thoughts on areas of light concern regarding cracks in the wall. I live in a block that is...

Hi had my kitchen ceiling skimmed about 5 weeks ago, over the top of the old ceiling which was just in a bad state. It was boarded originally. Everything has been fine, until yesterday, I noticed a yellow stain in one of the corners. Ironically it’s the corner than dried out first after...

sq versus taper on ceilings? Obviously, vertical taped joints would be essential where Dotty & Dabby are involved, as no skim to cover screw heads means that a taper recess is required to accommodate jointing compound. If taper was put up on a ceiling you would obviously still have screw heads...