What's the best way to fill cracks between skimmed plasterboard on a ceiling? Any of the modern materials better and easier than the traditional?
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Filling cracks in a ceiling.
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Whatever you do to fill, they will probably re appear again with the flexing of the ceilings.
If it is a flat ceiling, do it with lining paper.
Steve
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I filled settlement cracks in our sitting room ceiling a couple of years ago with silicone sealant, then painted over it. Might have been acrylic, come to think of it, I used what was in the gun.
None of the cracks has opened, presumably a flexible medium is better than plaster.
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Mary
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I think it must have been acrylic Mary as silicone just does not like paint over it.
Definitely! Failing that - on a flat ceiling, paper is the easiest way.
Steve
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Ah yes Mary can I hire you as my agent :-)
The perfect answer is for me to put coffering all over the ceiling. It will hide the cracks and you will be hiding from the bank manager
I'd use a modern flexible filler, myself ...
Anna
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You'd have been fed up if it had been silicone in the gun - silicone and paint don't go together.
In my experience (extensive) acrylic sealant is not impervious to settlement cracks either. Line it.
Edward
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Fill them in before plaster skim.
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They have hessian scrim over the joints. And is already skimmed.
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No I ean with a flexible filler and then the scrim. ;-)
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Oh - you mean rip it all down and start again?
Thanks. ;-)
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The Polyfila ripple stuff works very well. Just roll it on and all cracks just disappear!
MM
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Oh yes please! If you can afford my fees I'll be able to afford the coffering :-)
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You'd have been fed up if it had been silicone in the gun - silicone and paint don't go together.
In my experience (extensive) acrylic sealant is not impervious to settlement cracks either. Line it.
Well it's fine foir all of you to talk about lining it but this is a 71 year old ceiling which was lined when new and then papered with bubble Anaglypta. Then painted many times. I reckon that to strip it would be to find laths ... the present paper is structural :-)
Mary
Edward
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Yes, Dave, some folk have no other life :-)
Mary
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=A0 London SW
Yeah. Rip it down and blame it on the quake last night :)