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Ceilings in older properties

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oshuk · 16/06/2012 16:36

Does anyone know what those awful sort of panelled ceilings are called? We have viewed a couple of house with them, and the one we saw today even had lights built into it. Gross.

Also how expensive is it to change a ceiling? I don't even know where to start with this, so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

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DueinSeptember · 16/06/2012 18:11

Would a plasterer be able to board over it and then plaster it?

I would think this would cost about a couple of hundred for an average sized room.

oshuk · 16/06/2012 19:13

Maybe but I just wanted to check what they are called and how easy it would to remove. Thanks

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7to25 · 17/06/2012 15:17

Do you mean that the original ceiling has been lowered?
They are pretty easily removed, but you don't know what they cover up. it was a bit of a fad in the 70's and 80's as it "kept the heat in" and people thought that high ceilings were old fashioned.

Catsmamma · 17/06/2012 15:22

like in shops and offices?? Suspended ceilings I think.

vile!

PigletJohn · 17/06/2012 15:45

if it is a suspended ceiling in an older house, then most likely it is to hide something nasty above. Might be ducts, pipes, cables, or a broken and damaged old ceiling, or maybe a mess where rooms have been knocked together.

Sometimes it will be because a large old house with high ceilings has been brought down a bit.

Usually a ceiling can be replastered for a few hundred pounds, but if there is something nasty above it will need fixing first.

In most cases, you can look above a suspended ceiling by lifting a panel. They usually sit in trays formed by metal channels arranged in a grid. The channels are hung off metal wires or threaded rods. Sometimes there will be insulation flopped on top of the panels. It will probably be very dusty.

monniemae · 18/06/2012 14:02

we had an airtex ceiling in our back bedroom and the plasterer just "skimmed" over it. It looks perfect. The walls in that room were anagalypta (sp?) and wonky as hell -he's plasterboarded and skimmed them.
Plasterers are MIRACLE workers. x

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