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| message from David W.E. Roberts on 11 May 2004 |
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As posted elsewhere, I have just taken down our dining room ceiling (before
it came down of its own accord).
My method (encouraged by the fact that the plaster was peeling off the
laths but held together by the ceiling paper) was to ease it off with a
small crowbar, jabbing with the end of the crowbar to encourage the paper to
rip, and taking it down in about foot square chunks.
Because it came down in reasonably large chunks (which are heavy) I was able
to chuck the chunks straight into old dustbins, muck tubs etc. and get the
majority of the plaster straight into containers.
I then picked up the remaining plaster debris (which in my case was a sandy
mix more like render than plaster) using a 'wet and dry' vacuum cleaner.
One of those big plastic tubs on wheels with an elephant's trunk sticking
out of the side.
This made the job much less messy than I had been led to believe by other
posters.
I then screwed plasterboard over the laths.
I left the plaster between the laths as it pushed up out of the way.
This resulted in a slightly lower ceiling (by the thickness of a lath) but
avoided all the major mess of removing the laths, and also the problem of
removing or driving in all the nails left when the laths were pulled down.
I decided to try an alternative dress code, and used the disposable one
piece overalls from screwfix and a breathing mask and a face mask to try and
keep the muck away from my eyes and lungs.
It all worked pretty well, but I was no exactly a fashion icon :-)
So; from my experience it may be better to leave the laths and just remove
the ceiling paper and the plaster.
I guess it depends on how easily the plaster seperates from the laths.
HTH
Dave R
P.S. you could always leave the whole thing up and just screw 9mm
plasterboard over it then have it skimmed - least messy option of all.
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| mate replied to David W.E. Roberts on 11 May 2004 |
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Ours is pretty solid so i'm not expecting it to fall off easily :-(
disposable one
Clothing i'm not worried about - we have plenty of 'working clothes'
now - but have got half decent face mask and goggles.
What and do half a job?! ;-) We already decided when we moved in
about (18 months ago) that when it came to doing each room they
would be completely gutted and done 'properly' - rewired,
replastered, added electrics, replace ceiling etc, regardless of the
time taken and mess created. Maybe when we get towards finishing the
entire house (like that'll ever happen!) we'll start to worry more
about messing up the already completed rooms.. but thats years away
yet, we're only on the third room so far...
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