This is a picture of my kitchen ceiling which is covered with nasty 80's polystyrene tiles. It has apparently never been plastered and the seams of the plasterboard are not even taped.
To make matters worse, at one end of the room the boards run across the joists but at the end in the picture they run with the joists and the joint shown is at the edge rather than the centre of a joist.
The adhesive used is hard like tile glue and is difficult to remove without destroying the surface of the plasterboard. There are also holes for downlighters which need making good.
Is this going to skim reasonably easily or would I be better off taking it all down and starting again? - a daunting prospect as it is around 5m square.
A further complication is that it is almost impossible to do the whole ceiling in one go because there are cupboards to the ceiling on the other side of the room which cannot be removed until others have been installed on this side if domestic harmony (already severely stretched) is to be maintained.
Has anybody got any suggestions?
To make matters worse, at one end of the room the boards run across the joists but at the end in the picture they run with the joists and the joint shown is at the edge rather than the centre of a joist.
The adhesive used is hard like tile glue and is difficult to remove without destroying the surface of the plasterboard. There are also holes for downlighters which need making good.
Is this going to skim reasonably easily or would I be better off taking it all down and starting again? - a daunting prospect as it is around 5m square.
A further complication is that it is almost impossible to do the whole ceiling in one go because there are cupboards to the ceiling on the other side of the room which cannot be removed until others have been installed on this side if domestic harmony (already severely stretched) is to be maintained.
Has anybody got any suggestions?
