The stay at home situation has made me think about sorting out a home office pretty sharpish, and I plan to finish an outbuilding conversion started by previous owners. They had trades in and got most of the way there apart from the ceiling.
My plan is to keep things simple and frame across at level of wall plates. I've seen a few posts about doing this with 3x2 CLS at 400 centres (first fixing lengths of CLS to walls level all round) and would then using 12mm tapered plasterboard, taping and jointing. Does this sound sensible? I've done decent-sized stud walls but this is my first ceiling. Questions I have are:
Stu
My plan is to keep things simple and frame across at level of wall plates. I've seen a few posts about doing this with 3x2 CLS at 400 centres (first fixing lengths of CLS to walls level all round) and would then using 12mm tapered plasterboard, taping and jointing. Does this sound sensible? I've done decent-sized stud walls but this is my first ceiling. Questions I have are:
- Do I need to use joist hangers or just get the new rafters nice and tight and nail?
- should I frame across perpendicularly above for stiffness?
- I can run timbers up to existing rafters for support to reduce sag: what rough centres would be good for this?
- Which direction to go for new rafters: room is pretty close to square.
Stu
