If you are faced with redoing plaster or repairing plaster walls, it may be cheaper to just put drywall right over it. Its affordability makes it a popular selection for many homeowners. Installing drywall will probably be cheaper and faster than working with plaster walls. Drywall will be smooth, sleek, and beautiful when installed by professional installers. Drywall can be painted numerous times to achieve any look you want.
When the drywall is installed in a house it helps to retain the room temperature whether it is warm or cold and increases insulation. This will help you increase your energy efficiency, lower your energy costs, and keep the interior temperature stable.
Unlike joint compound, this mixture forms a relatively thick paste. All-purpose joint compound is a building material drywall finishers use to spackle, or mud, a drywall installation. All-purpose joint compound adheres well to most surfaces, so you can use it to make repairs on plaster walls. The skim coat over the old artex is the cause of your ceiling failure, seen it happen on a fair few ceilings. Timescale is in the ballpark for it to have failed, it might not have been sealed prior to skimming, some use PVA, others use Blue Grit other sealers are available which is a better product.
The Ronseal filler brand works on a wide variety of surfaces such as plaster, stone and wood. Gyproc light is probably the best all-round filler on the market. You can do deep holes with it without any issues and there is never any flashing. The top spot of the decorators fillers we applied was the Toupret Redlite. The ceilings are in good shape with no cracks or anything.. I was also thinking of putting bead board paneling on the walls over the plastered lath?
It will be important to find the ceiling joists above the plaster ceiling before installing any drywall to cover it.
The best way to do this is to use a Zircon m40 metal scanner. Any hits will indicate the small nails that were used to secure the wooden lath to the joists themselves. This is a way more reliable method than using a stud finder on plaster. I have had good luck finding the joists above my plaster ceilings by putting a strong magnet in an upside down clear carry-out container lid and waving it over the ceiling slowly.
I find that as my arm tires it is hard to feel the magnet pull consistently on the ceiling and that the lid technique is superior. I mark a couple nails on each side of each joist and then snap a line across the ceiling. Thinking about buying an old house from House has a mix of knob and tube and shotty Romex wiring.
Can I cut holes in the plaster to replace wiring in the home and then drywall over everything? Seems that will be the cheaper and easiest route.
Weird I just bought my pops house that was the 1st house built on the block and its a s place The previous owner of my new house used drywall compound over the plaster and lathe and made.
How much scraping should I do to prepare the surface? Does it need to be perfectly smooth or just mostly? I see a lot of people asking why they wouldn't just fix the plaster. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that if you have plaster walls, you most likely have at least 1 layer of lead paint underneath.
Post a reply as Anonymous. Related Discussions. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Now when I screw in the drywall do I screw it into the Joists? Or can I attach it to the strapping? As long as, like you said, the strapping is securely in place they are I at first tried to take one down and ended up hanging and swinging from my hammer because I did not want to pry against the plaster, and I'm lbs and it didn't even budge I was shocked.
Common sense has to prevail here. If you see large areas of plaster that look like they are bulging or falling etc. I'd still use some screws through the strapping into joists to be sure my drywall is gonna stay where I put it. Pre-drill the strapping so you don't split it with your screws! Jack Jack What a coincidence, after 11 hours that both of us post an answer at practically the exact same time No need to, firring will hold it all, just make sure all the strapping is tight to the joists.
Get that drywall screw tip too, it will make setting the screws easier, unless you have a drywall screw gun, that will allow you to stop the screws automatically at a predetermined depth too. Drywall glue is a plus. I have some limited personal experience with homes built in the early 20th century, and have some things to take into consideration: The joists and ceiling framing in houses built in the early 20th century are undersized by today's standards.
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