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Ceiling Surface: Ideally you should paint during daylight hours to take advantage of the natural light. If you paint under artificial lighting, you may overlook gaps in the coverage. For best results, paint an interior in a strict order, from the highest to the lowest point. For doors and windows, the sequence of painting is described on the following page.
To paint any room always start with the ceiling surface, since paint will inevitably drip or be splattered onto the walls. In an average room with a window and a door, begin painting the ceiling surface at the window end and work across the ceiling surface covering the surface in parallel bands approximately a yard wide until you reach the door end (see numbers 1-5 on the diagram above). Work an area that is comfortable to reach from your standing point, whether you are on a makeshift platform or a stepladder. If there is a ceiling surface rose or a light fixture in the middle of the ceiling surface, you should paint neatly around this with a small paintbrush and then continue painting in parallel bands.
Made from a variety of synthetic materials, ceiling surface tiles can add interesting textural qualities to a ceiling surface. These tiles are also a useful means of disguising a ceiling surface that is in poor condition.
Styrofoam acoustic tiles are the most common, and are usually 1 2in (30cm) or 24in (60cm) square with chamfered edges. They should be attached with special Tile adhesive, which must be spread over the whole ceiling surface. Don't use the "five-blob" method of installing - in a fire, tiles melt away from the glue and drop from the ceiling surface. Modern tiles are self-extinguishing grade (SX), so they are not a great fire risk.
There may be many good reasons for wanting to lower a ceiling surface, but the main ones are to make a room seem cozier and easier to heat, and also to hide a ceiling surface that may be cracked or have surface-mounted pipes. More than likely, the ceiling surface will be in a tall room and you will want to lower it by a significant amount. If, however, you want to lower it just a little, perhaps because it is in need of repair, you could construct a new one just a few inches below the existing one. If the original ceiling surface is old and sagging, make sure you remove any loose pieces that could eventually break away and fall, damaging the new ceiling surface below.
ceiling surfaces are constructed in one of two ways. Traditional lath-an plaster ceiling surfaces are still found in many older houses and contini to do good service. These were made by nailing narrow strips c wood, known as laths, close together across the joists of the flc above to provide a key for the plaster, which often contained horsehair. Modern ceiling surfaces are more simply constructed - sheet rock is nailed directly to the joists. The joints between the shee are then filled with plaster filler.
While plasterboard ceiling surfaces rarely cause any problems, the ol lath-and-plaster ones tend to crack and sag as the house settles and generally require more repair work. |
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