skimming a repair patch on ceiling

[jfb]

So if I want to do a repair to a`ceiling (1.5m2 area that had a leak and needs new plasterboard) would you:

 

1. scribe and fit new board and then just skim over new board (taking care to get skim into any gaps between new and old board)

2. jointing tape over new board and onto existing ceiling (painted) and then skim over the tape and try to get as smooth a join as possible

3. something else

 

cheers

john

[Moonshine]

What is the existing ceiling, plasterboard or lathe and plaster?

 

It sounds like its plasterboard, one option is a modified option 2, see if you can find the joints to the old plaster board and take the whole damaged board down, you can then pull off the skrim tape of the adjacent boards. This will give you a rebate to tape the replacement board to the adjacent boards, and can be skimmed smoothly over.

 

[nod]

1 hour ago, jfb said:

So if I want to do a repair to a`ceiling (1.5m2 area that had a leak and needs new plasterboard) would you:

 

1. scribe and fit new board and then just skim over new board (taking care to get skim into any gaps between new and old board)

2. jointing tape over new board and onto existing ceiling (painted) and then skim over the tape and try to get as smooth a join as possible

3. something else

 

cheers

john

If it exciting board

Cut a square piece of board slightly bigger than the hole in the ceiling. Hold it onto the ceiling and draw round it 

Then cut the ceiling with a pad saw 

Perfect fit

You can normally scrape the exhausting skim back about 25 mm to allow you to get tape over the joints 

[jack]

32 minutes ago, nod said:

If it exciting board

 

All boards are exciting!

 

Typo maybe? 

[Onoff]

2 minutes ago, jack said:

 

All boards are exciting!

 

Typo maybe? 

 

"Moisture resistant!"

 

[jfb]

Thanks for the advice - will get on with it now!