Hello everyone!
I'm throwing out a question here:
We have been living for just over 2 years in a wooden house from 2003 where we are the second owners. Gradually, we've noticed that cracks are forming in the ceiling in one area, see attached image. It seems to be cracking between the boards in the ceiling. I assume one has to accept that there is movement in a wooden house? I haven't gotten around to asking the previous owners if they had the same cracks and then filled and painted before they sold. We have replaced the facade with a two-step plaster facade with an air gap, but I find it hard to believe that it would have any impact. The house can creak and sound a lot during temperature changes. Should we be worried and have someone check it out, or is it just a matter of filling and painting?
Thanks in advance!
Spackling and painting are hardly likely to be a permanent solution; the cracks will come back. It might be interesting to ask previous owners about any spackling. Such a construction is actually impossible to make crack-free in a wooden house.
Unscrew a ceiling box and see if there is one or two layers of plasterboard.
It looks like it's one layer, and in that case, it almost doesn't matter what you do because it will crack anyway. If it's two layers and you get such cracks, it's worse. Then it's wrong overlap, wrong screwing, or something is moving too much.
/Torpalainen
Wallpaper the ceiling with ceiling fabric and paint.
Been there, done that. Screwed extra into all the boards, new paper joint tapes, best filler, thoroughly glue-soaked Microlit fabric and three layers of Scotte on it. Still, it cracks, but now more in the Microlit seams...
Unless you want to rebuild everything with new furring strips, etc., I think it's only Huntonit or Moelven plates that apply.
As it says earlier, often there are panels on the ceiling, BUT in most cases, panels with some form of tongue and groove are used when mounting on framing in wooden houses. Then the panels can move without cracking the seams, which is what happens if panels are set edge-to-edge.
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