If you have a recurring ceiling crack on a plasterceiling, you may have an undersupported plaster-over-gypsum lathe ceiling system. If that is the case, your ceiling cannot be…
I just bought my first home in NY (1967 Wide Ranch) and the ceiling in the living room is pointy plaster (see above). Thanks to what seems to be some recently removed wooden beams, there are flat lines cutting through the pointy sections that make it look even cheesier.
We have a few plaster ceilings in our house that need to be smoothed. Any ideas how to do this? It looks like a rough road from previous owners probably applying compund and roughing it up to try and match the ceiling. The whole ceiling needs to be fixed somehow.
Dear JJ, I am originally from Joisey. LOL First, I would get a roto-zip tool with 4 or 5 plaster bits. Square off the loose stuff and make sure to size the depth of the cut so it dosent hit the lath. Cut out the offending areas and measure the depth of the plaster.
I have purchased a home with radiant ceiling heat. I believe the heating elements are old copper pipes seeing that is what is leading into the walls from the boiler. The house was built in the 1950's. My question is how do I repair the ceilings.
I need advice on how to repair, replace or cover over an old (late 1920s) plasterceiling. It's plaster on wood lath. A 4 sq. ft. section of plaster was loose enough to fall away from the lathe when I started scraping…
…update to my last post. Forget any reference to 'paper' in my last post. I believe I just have a regular sagging plasterceiling. I saw a picture of one in the UK Readers Digest book online. They say to fix it by going above the ceiling and…
I have a ranch-style house built in the mid-50's. In one room they have put a swirl patterned texture on the ceiling with what appears to be plaster. In the next room the ceiling is just a rough textured plaster.
Installing recessed lighting in a plasterceiling. Cut the first LAYER (drywall) of the first hole. Above the drywall was some lath. I cut that, too. Above that, though…
