Lowering bathroom ceiling

Some cloaking profile, or other PVC trim?

It is all a matter of aesthetics, and therefore personal opinion. In my opinion, whatever you frame the divided window with it is going to look horrible, and just wrong.

I would suggest either a new window, and close up the window aperture above the ceiling with a box section matching the wall. Or stop the false ceiling about a metre before the window and have a short stretch of the original ceiling.

Both are a bit more expensive, the latter less so.

Make it wide up to be shoved up the gap a bit, then you can fix it with diagonal panel pins.

Bill

Lowering a ceiling far enough to partly take in a bit of window would, to me be just as annoying as the difference in shape in the old one though.

Brian

Stick the window blind mechanism across the top?

I don't see any obscure glass.... giving a nightly show to the neighbours?

I would have thought having the raw edge of the plasterboard coming up,to t he window was a bad idea anyway providing a point for moisture to enter the PB.

Why not stop the ceiling before it enters the reveal putting a vertical pie ce of PB in until it reaches above the window height. This is common practi ce when converting/modernising Victorian buildings where ceilings are dropp ed, it provides a space to conceal curtain rails or hide away blinds.

Richard

Thanks for the replies

The bit of plasterboard that is up against the glass is actually the neat sealed edge of the board so I hope it won't let moisture in.

The glass is frosted so nobody will be able to see me and stream live shows online!

We can be thankful for small mercies...

I'll admit to having doubts that any method of sealing is likely to make it impervious. How did you seal it?

NT

It's the rounded edge of the plasterboard that's covered with paper like the face of the board.

On Tuesday, 2 January 2018 19:50:57 UTC, Murmansk wrote: NT:

then it's as far from sealed as you can get

NT

Condensation on the window will result in a damp patch there.

This brings up another point - you need to be careful about preventing condensation in the void above a lowered bathroom ceiling. If wrongly designed, moisture may get trapped there. Depends where you put the insulation, vapor barrier, ventilation, and what's above the room (e.g. an attic, or another heated space).

Damp will disintegrate the PB. I'd cut the PB further back so the window's not part blocked off

NT

I've got a powerful fan up there which sucks moisture out of the bathroom below via two vents and sends it out through a hole in the top of the window - behind the new lowered ceiling - so I hope there'll be no condensation.

I have two access hatches in the ceiling so I can get to my fan and shower mixer, so I'll be able to keep an eye on what's going on up there.