Do we need a plasterer for our ceiling?

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Hello. I'm really hoping to redo our kitchen soon. At the moment their is a fairly dodgy DIY tongue and groove ceiling that was probably installed by the previous owners. I have no idea what is underneath but it's a flat roof extension. Who would I need to replace it with a normal plaster ceiling? Would it just be a plasterer or is there a chance that whatever is underneath wouldn't be suitable.

Thanks for reading.

I'd get a plasterer in to give you a quote, and take it from there. We just got our kitchen replasterered and it cost £750 (ouch). It's a big messy, dusty job.

Cutting out a ceiling and redoing it is even messier, so they often opt to nail plasterboard to the existing ceiling and skimming over, so it's all beautiful and clean. It'll be lovely when it's done.

T&G will be to hide something awful.

Rip it down.

Plastering a ceiling might cost a couple of £hundred.

As it is a flat roof, examine it for leaks after you rip down the old, and put up new insulation (get the brown rolls marked "treated with Ecose" which prevents them shedding dust and fibres) before it is re-done. Add new ceiling lamp wiring if you want (please, not downlighters).

Thanks for the replies - the whole kitchen is a bit awful so I dread to think what it under there. The roof is ok I think - we had a roofer up there not long ago when we thought we had a leak (it was actually a too short dripping overflow pipe). There are (probably dodgy) downlighters at the moment!

It's quite low at the moment so I'd rather not lose any more height - I really want to do this but I think the £££ are going to add up! Just spent an hour on the ikea website trying to price up a kitchen before realising I was somehow on the Australian website - aargh!

insulation goes between the joists, so it does not lower the ceiling (it is also possible to use insulated plasterboard, but if you take down the old ceiling there is no need).

I was meaning I would rather they didn't nail plaster board to the TNG - I'm not sure if that was what Jay meant though. Thanks again.

I still say pull it down. It will not be as dirty as a 50-year old, unfelted, pitched roof with a L&P ceiling, but I bet it is badly insulated.

We had a T&g ceiling in our old kitchen (Victorian house). The builder thought that there would be lots of pipes under there but there weren't. He pulled it down and we had it skimmed as part of a larger job. This was the spring of this year. Think the plasterer charged about £120 per day and he skimmed much more than just this room, although this excluded materials, so hopefully your job wouldn't be as expensive.