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Plastering & Rendering

Crack in bathroom ceiling along edge of room

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.47 PM

Our bathroom ceiling was repaired in November after a leak from above. The trader replaced the ceiling with green sheets and plastered over the top. We have been taking care to keep the room well ventilated. Around Christmas a hairline crack appeared at the edge of the room where the ceiling meets the wall. I assume due to movement of the house there is a weak point there. Is this something I should bring up with the person who did the job or are such cracks to be expected and easily dealt with? e.g. Someone suggested I might fill with a caulking gun and paint over it? Thus allowing for expansion and contraction without furthur plaster repair breaking over time due to movement. Thank you. Added note: walls of bathroom are fully tiled, making the intial job more complex.

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4 Answers

M-P-M Midlands Plastering Services

Rating: 5 out of 5
Kidderminster
if he only plaster the ceiling then he probs never scrim taped the edge of the wall and ceiling that's why you have a crack he should have told you this my happen and advise you to skim the walls to. all you can do now use a flexible filler
Answered7 February 2020
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CWS Rendering Services

Rating: 5 out of 5
Deal
If it’s just a hairline crack then fill with a flexible filler and paint, it’s just something that sometimes happens as the new fresh plaster dries out against the old.
Answered7 February 2020
0

Anonymous user

Yeah definitely because the fella hasn’t use scrim tape where the plasterboard met original wall. Not really anything you could of done... he definitely should of recommended plastering the walls aswell
Answered8 February 2020
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Anonymous user

this often occurs , when a new ceiling is put up ,you can't put an angle tape on between wall & ceiling as walls could be of finished decoration,what your tradesman should have did is , mastic all round angles at ceiling "BEFORE"Plastering commences thus preventing cracks and damage to finished walls ,ps easiest way and all good tradesmen should know this
Answered9 February 2020
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