false ceiling

i plan on doing up a bedroom which has an old lath and plaster wonky artex ceiling. It's an old house so theres plenty of height in the room. I plan on building a timber frame just underneath the old ceiling to board and plaster, should I use 2 x4 or 2 x 5 to stop sag? Iv heard some put banding...

Hi All, I have a cold stairway with a high ceiling and short upstairs corridor (1m wide). The roof cavity above is hard to access, has some insulation but not much. Hence warm air rises up the stair well to the ceiling, pools in this area and escapes. Picture included hopefully or will be...

Hi, So I have an extremely noisey neighbour above me and I cant afford to move so my only solution install a false ceiling with "sound" insulation. I have total of 175mm clearance to work with and my plan is to afix battens around the walls with coach bolts and then screw 45mm x 120mm joists...

Hello, I'm thinking of dividing my garage into two rooms by adding a stud wall, making one end a utility room and leaving the other end as a smaller garage. The garage is integral to the house (built around 1960) and has high ceilings. The main issue is that the ceiling has what I think are...