Hello everyone, I need advice on my ongoing renovation.
In the basement, the ceilings are plastered on reed mats. I have torn down several walls, and the ceiling has sustained some damage, although it is fairly minor. There are also some old cracks. The house is from '44. I am currently working on a room of about 25 sqm that will become two new rooms, and the question is whether I should find a way to repair the ceilings or tear them down, install new frames, take the opportunity to run new electrical wiring, etc., and put up drywall instead. I will also need to move lighting outlets or possibly install recessed spotlights. I don't feel compelled to preserve the ceilings for pure architectural conservation. Has anyone had similar experiences? Will it be an enormous amount of materials and dust to deal with perhaps?
Another reason is that I have found traces of old moisture. It seems dry now, but if I tear down the ceiling, I could inspect a little while it's down...
I did roughly the same in a room that I didn't think was worth saving because the cornice and ceiling were too bad. In this room, I installed drywall instead. In my other rooms, I repaired the plastering.
In my case, there was a nice boarded sub-ceiling, planks about 150 mm with gaps of 10 mm between, then there was mesh/reed and lime plaster.
There was quite a bit of material, but the worst part was the dust, which was unbearable because it was old dry lime mortar.
I installed my drywall directly on the existing sub-ceiling since it was nice and straight.
But as I said, it creates a lot of dust.
Feel free to report how you did it. I live in a house from 1936 and will soon set about putting up a new wall. The ceiling is reveted and cracked, so we'll see if everything comes tumbling down when I start tinkering.......
I have three windows in this space, so I'll open them wide and cover the rest of the house
Tip 1: Tape the door gaps on all doors leading to the rest of the house, as the fine dust will go through any gaps around the door.
Tip 2: Rent an air purifier from places like Cramo, Hyrhuset eldyl, and place it in the room as it will capture a lot of the dust in the filter. Something like this http://www.pullman-ermator.se/swe/produkter/aline.html
Thanks for the tips oceanis, have rented a miljöbox (air purifier) and bilmaskin for a floor cleat. This weekend will be chipping and tearing down the ceiling. Wish me luck
Now about 12 sqm of the roof is torn down. It took 3 trips to the recycling center with the material. The air purifier was great to have, it really helped! But I can't stress enough oceanis' tip to cover all gaps because it finds its way like soot everywhere. Make sure to get the airflow going in the right direction so that not too much unnecessary stuff gets sucked into the house.
Now I have 12 sqm left in that room and 25 sqm in the next room, but that's in the next step. Unfortunately, I probably have to tear down the planks that were plastered on because they are so uneven. Then it's time to start looking at how I'm going to turn things around to build this up again
It wasn't that tight, so I took a regular garden shovel and made some holes first. Then I could stand on a ladder and insert the shovel under the plaster and pry it off the ceiling. I didn't have any chicken wire in my ceiling; instead, the reeds were fastened with loose metal wires attached with nails to the sparse paneling shown in the picture.
I just let it fall to the floor, though I made sure to keep the windows open, partly to let the dust out but primarily to prevent them from breaking. Sometimes pieces of plaster get stuck in the reed strands and swing down from the ceiling. In this way, they can easily damage walls and windows. If you can't have them open, my advice is to cover delicate parts to protect them. The wall (rendered) took a few hits here and there too, but they will be checked in the next step anyway, so I hope it won't be too much extra work.
Once you've taken it down, you're left with mess up to your ankles. So I took a shovel and scooped it into masonry tubs. I helped sort out most of the reeds from the plaster and wires in a pile. Then it was just a matter of carrying it out.
Well done! I don't like reeds with plaster on, luckily I don't have any of that myself but have helped a few friends who had it on their walls. One girlfriend had put up a shelf with all her fine china on it in the kitchen, one day the shelf was no longer on the wall because her small plugs had come loose. Another had mounted the shower handle on the wall in the bathroom (instead of sitting in the bath) and then almost all the tiles fell off after some time of showering on the wall.
Nice windows in the room, does it all get a bit green-yellow inside the room when the sun shines?
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