Polystyrene ceiling tiles

[eloisah]

throughout a 3 bed house! anyone have a clue what we should expect to pay to get them removed and the ceilings skimmed?

Oh that figure of 3.5k is helpful for us to plan our budget, whereabouts in UK are you?

If the plaster is just a bit shoddy looking but otherwise sound skimming in not too expensive. Cross lining is papering both ways and is good in certain situations but ceilings move due to pressure above and the lines often show eventually. New skim painted looks great

I am in Brighton hth

Dead easy and greatvfun to remove.

Then plaster - itbis the cheapest kind of building work to getbdone, we have a massive victorian with coving.

Ceiling only £100-200 a room. Whole room up to £300 byt rooms are 20 foot long.

Even in brighton 3.5k is far too much.

It is cheaper to plaster than paper.

Thank you all, that is so helpful.

Im going to remove the ones in the little room and see whats underneath this weekend... will let you know what I find! Any tips on technique or the perfect tool to use?

Will definately go for re plastering, if needed, rather than papering on your advice.

I should add thatbwhenver we stripped our hall off the ceiling was perefct underneath. It was just fashion. Thick paint

3.5 k to replaster a whole house too much?

That was for hall stairs and landing plus large mezzanine sleeping deck.3 big bedrooms and large bathroom walls and ceilings smallish sitting room 14 x 12 and large open plan kitchen diner tv room all walls and ceilings plus downstairs loo and small porch all ceilings and walls.They were in 2 weeks and that included new plasterboard in places inc one whole new wall on the mezzanine and a mist coat. I am not sure about elsewhere but that was considered a bargain! Top finish

My house is a large 6 bed Victorian.

Plasterers materials are very cheap. It is really labour. I had 2 of them for 6 hours a day (they did oos care and only wanted 9-3) for £180 a day.I paid for the stuff on account. Mine took less than 2 weeks including replacing I ceiling. Needed a bit of scaffolding as well. They didn't do I bedroom and only did 1 bathroom.

Probably works out then. Ours is not a huge house but was stripped right back in all room and various studs etc repositioned. I defintiely would have been surprised if it was less tbh as is the 10th house I've replastered and think it worked out quite fair for the standard.Def get a recommendation too because a good plasterer leaves the finish so good that decorators whizz round and that does save money and looks great. I think the mezzanine may have bumped the price a tiny bit as was quite fiddly. These guys plastered our old bathroom with white plaster and polished it which is worth looking into if you fancy a real wow it was so so pretty

It is a PITA for sure esp doing it bit by bit and living in dust so hard!

Noddyholder - polished plaster sounds amazing.. will look into that! Im hoping not all rooms will need replastering but just want to work out top of our budget iykwim. We are near Gatwick so Brighton prices prob around the same?

TSC think we will have to do room by room as we have young dc plus moneyfactors. Dust... yes, not looking forward to that at all..

conculainy, why are they illegal? are they very dangerous? I have small dcs..

Just to update you. Our builder had a look, we pulled some off and the ceiling is badly cracked.... knew there was a reason they were there [sigh]

Anyway he recommends plasterboarding them then replastering.

We will do it room by room

Make sure your ceiling can support the weight- ours was weak nails so have had ceiling ties put round each joist in loft so can take weight of plasterboard. That one ceiling we had to do had to be plasterboarded then plastered and cost us £300. It's now the prettiest ceiling in the house!

Good advise, thanks Thandeka. Cant wait to have pretty ceilings

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