Recent content by ClarkPlastering

I always check a ceiling with a level when I quote, it was as good as perfect. Not one single rack in the artex and no nail popping at all, it was even solid to push, Suggesting over boarding in this situation would strengthen it? You would be screwing plasterboard to a 4.9 meter batten which...

Im not diagreeing that overboarding can prevent problems in a majority of jobs, but in this case the boards would have been screwed into battens that were not at all sound or strong enough for the current ceiling and certainly not another layer of boards therefore it would have all come down...

It's a pity it wasn't done right but these things happen, I'm in Edinburgh, fortunately it's only an eight foot ceiling it won't be hard to redo, it would be worse if the job was 4m up but this one isn't so bad

You'll be used to seeing them then, for me it was a bit of a wtf is this meant to be moment!

Yeah when you put it like that it gives it perspective, I knew it was a false ceiling without a doubt, what I was describing is how I wasn't to know the ceiling strips were not held in very well, 5 nails over each 4.7 meter length. Definitely correct in saying I did what was asked so it's unfair...

I think I'll adopt your methods by stating that to customers, its certainly the case that things can go wrong regardless how much you think you've taken precaution as problems jump out of nowhere sometimes, Zurich is a good policy I bet I could claim, although its probably going to cost around...

Perhaps just the last bit of this years bad luck, I'll not manage to fix it till the start of new year, fortunately nobody is living in the property so no huge disruption for them. I'll get to it in 2014 and see if that years any kinder to me

Yeah good answers, unfortunately the only lesson from this is sometimes you win, sometimes you lose! There hasn't really been any sure fire ways of unraveling how to prevent this, I'll just need to wait till I'm an old geezer as it wouldn't happen to them, they never miss a thing ha

I'm surprised the ceiling didnt flex while skimming after revealing the 600 centres hanging down like that, but artex and a years of paint seemed to keep the boards rigid so there were no tell tail signs of bad workmanship until the call back unfortunately, I was also surprised the plasterboard...

Yeah it's about 40 odd years, Thanks for the suggestions it's something I'll just need to take on the chin, it's the first time this has happened in the past ten years so it's not a regular occurrence, I thought it would be of benefit for people to see that simply double sheeting wouldn't solve...

It was solid when I finished the job, it even dried out well, then when it dropped two weeks after the cracks appeared as you'd expect. An important thing to remember is of the ceiling was that shape when I skimmed it then there would be no cracks, only movement after the plaster sets would...

Yeah I appreciate your replies, it was a wrong place at the wrong time situation although the natural reaction is to please the customer, I will at least ask for the money for materials, he's a nice enough guy I'm sure he will agree to that

The cowboys didn't appear to leave any stirrups up there, although he does appear to have left his horsewhip round the light fitting

I had a call back about a job I did a couple of weeks ago which I found odd, I had skimmed 5 artex ceilings, on this job I decided against sheeting as the artex was very light, It turned out to be a blessing that I didnt add the extra weight of the plasterboard on this job, the other four were...