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Plastering & Rendering

How to fit a heavy plaster ceiling rose on a newly plastered ceiling?

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.36 PM

Hi my painter/decorator will be re-plastering and re-decorating my living room over the next two weeks. I recently bought an unused vintage ceiling rose, 88 cm across. Its made from plaster and very heavy. Although my painter/decorator is a competent plasterer and electrician i don't think he's installed many ceiling roses and certainly not one as heavy as this. I would be really grateful if someone experienced in installing these things could recommend the best way to install it to ensure that it never comes crashing down and also the best adhesives to use. Many thanks in advance Tonya

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Plumb's Plastering Service

Rating: 5 out of 5

Sittingbourne

A very skilled painter and decorator , that can plaster a do electrics too! Can I have his number !!!!?? All seriousness It's a two man job really especially at 88cm. I would personally get a tower platform or tressels with scaffold boards on them. Find joists running where the rose will be in situ. Use plasterboard adhesive on back of the rose( don't go too crazy) and then screw the rose up to the joists. (Pilot hole the rose first) You can the fill the screw holes with easifill or another filler. Once dry sand filler for a good job. Matt

Answered16 March 2018

DEACON ELECTRICAL SERVICES

Rating: 5 out of 5

Grimsby

An electrician who has never hung heavy fittings?? You, or he, or someone should ensure there is a beam to fix to. If there is not one in the place you want it, create a sturdy fixing point, and don’t use any glue!

Answered16 March 2018

Michal Zukiewicz Plastering

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Morden

Hi, you would need two men and 2 ladders or even better a tower platform, a bag of cornice or a plasterboard adhesive, few screws. Apply few patches of glue onto a rose or the ceiling and press slowly to ceiling, hopefully creating some suction between both. Then screw it in, with 2 or 3 screws , allowing screws to dig into the rose and use glue to fill any gaps or screw holes. Wipe it with wet paint brush before glue goes off. Screws are only there to stop the rose from falling down before glue has set.

Answered16 March 2018

Timothy David Interiors

Rating: 5 out of 5

Tonypandy

Hi. As other awnsers. Sounds to me like there may be some worry on his part with it being so heavy. When ive fitted them in the past ive used ratchet props to hold in place, screwed and used adhesive. Leaving the props in place until things have set. The adhesive is an immportant part. Im not sure if the fact that its a vintage unused rose will make things a tad more difficult. The reason i say this is that usually any plaster moulding is fitted when it has set but not fully cured. This enables the fitter to easily shave the contact surfaces so that it fits well to the surface its being fitted to. Once the plaster has fully cured this cant be done

Answered16 March 2018

A10 Property Services

Rating: 5 out of 5

Enfield

Get him to see if there's any joists running through above where its going, that way he may be able to get a screw or two through it into the joist to hold it, while a good grip fill or dry wall mix even a bit of thistle bonding goes off. Leave screws in don't take them out, fill screw heads with some decorater's filler. Wouldn't hurt to hold it up too till it grips or get a prop underneath it.

Answered19 March 2018