Repair Plasterboard Ceiling

Lounge ceiling has a crack which seems to be following the joint between two pieces of plasterboard. It tends to wander from a straight line a little and its about 3 to 4 feet long. In certain light you can detect a slight around the crack. I repaired it with decorators caulk about 10 years ago but it has opened up again. A leak from the upstairs bathroom didn't help here. IMO the builders did not fasten the plasterboard properly in the first place. The ceiling has a light artex coating.

What's the best and least messy way to permanently repair this?

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Wesley
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In certain light you can detect a slight BULGE around the crack

Reply to
Wesley

Timber moves, pb cracks, its life. Theres no permafix. Fix it as before.

NT

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NT

Maybe identify where joists cross the joins, scrape away the skim, and put some plasterboard screws through just either side of the join. You say it's been their more than

10 years, it's likely to have been fitted with clout nails, putting some screws in may let you just tighten it enough to tie the movement of both panels together.

JGH

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jgharston

I had exactly the same problem as this. I tried many things, including screwing the plasterboard to the joists either side of the join, but nothing really worked and the crack remained visible. In the end I removed the artex (which was there when we bought the house, and like yours was only a light coating - probably a textured paint of some sort), and papered the ceiling with a lightly textured wallpaper to cover up the few blemishes that remained. It is now perfectly ok, and I really think this is really the only solution.

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Farmer Giles

You had cowboy teacher done your English.

Reply to
Steve Firth

So arrange the light differently. Especially when you sell and people are coming to view.

Possibly the bulge is just a the result of the previous leak.

Reply to
BartC

It's cracked because of the bulge. When the water penetrated the PB, it sagged down, pulling itself free of the fixings and cracking along the joint. Now that it's dry, you should be able to screw it back into place. Use a flat board, 4X1 or similar and prop this up from the floor with timber cut to size - you may need 2. Use 40mm plasterboard screws along the join (about 15mm either side of the crack), then remove the props, fill screw holes and the crack, then repaint.

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Phil L

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Grimly Curmudgeon

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