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Ceiling reboarding query
Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.54 PM
Our ceilings seem to have been done with a thin wood then artex. Can these be skimmed without putting up plaster boards or is there a need/must to have boards put up first? (Overboarding).
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no you cannot plaster over thin wood the plaster wont take to it there,s 2 choices you can over board the existing ceiling or strip back to the joist then re board the ceiling
Answered26 November 2017
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Anonymous user
You can not plaster over wood or paper it will fail strip ceiling back to joists and re board and skim alternatively over board and skim.
Answered26 November 2017
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Anonymous user
Hard-board ceilings are fairly common, best to over-board it then skim it.
On another note it is possible to skim over wood providing it's had blue-grit applied 24hrs beforehand. Done it many times clients and friends no problems ever. But not a ceiling - overboard the old one.
Answered29 November 2017
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