Hello. I am planning to lower a ceiling in a bathroom with the dimensions 1.9 x 2.5 meters. The ceiling currently consists of raw planks.
I intend to use batten and drywall. The drywall sheets are 900 x 2500 mm.
What type of screws should I use for the batten, and how closely should they be placed? I'm not 100% certain about the exact location of the wiring on the other side of the raw planks, so I want to be a bit cautious.
Should the batten be installed along the length or across the room and, consequently, the sheets? That is, like the orange or red arrow in the drawing?
I intend to use batten and drywall. The drywall sheets are 900 x 2500 mm.
What type of screws should I use for the batten, and how closely should they be placed? I'm not 100% certain about the exact location of the wiring on the other side of the raw planks, so I want to be a bit cautious.
Should the batten be installed along the length or across the room and, consequently, the sheets? That is, like the orange or red arrow in the drawing?
The sparse panel should be able to be screwed with appropriately long wood screws. What do you have above the raw paneling, joist? If so, you set the sparse panel in the same direction as the raw paneling. Check where the raw paneling is nailed/screwed and screw in approximately the same spot; then you most likely have a beam behind it.
Okay, then I'll do that. Thanks for the help. I'll probably notice if I happen to screw into an electric cable, but as you wrote, if a lot of nails have previously been put in one place, it probably wasn't there that it ran. 