advice on plasterboarding and skiming the bedroom celings

[Alastairreid]

have a read here Andrew

 

[andrewaaa299]

Thank you Alistair, so do you think that would be ok then to just go for that?

And if so, then why do people bother with plastering over plasterboard at all?

 

[joe-90]

Hello guys, thanks for all the good tips. Boarding is crucial as the ceiling really does need a clean even surface to skim on i think.

No it isn't - that's the art of plastering. You can quite happily plaster over an artexed ceiling and get perfect results.

 

[Alastairreid]

skim-coat plaster has greater impact and abrasion resistance, improved sound isolation, and can be brought to a truer flat plane resulting in a virtually flawless surface.

though the finished surface of a taped ceiling should be virtually indistinguishable from a skimmed ceiling once painted.

 

[Micilin]

The trouble with jointing is where you butt the boards without taper, you are puting 3-mm of stuff on the joint and nothing on the adjacent board. As said above, skimming can give you an even surface that jointing can't.

 

[NickB_99]

skim-coat plaster has greater impact and abrasion resistance, improved sound isolation, and can be brought to a truer flat plane resulting in a virtually flawless surface.

Out of interest, open Q, does applying the skim coat provide greater fire resistance also ?
(assuming standard wall board as opposed to anything special)