Do i need to tape?

[WOOLLSY]

Hi,

I have put up a plasterboard wall using dot and dab. The ceiling did not need plastering. Do I need to tape the joint where the new wall meets the old ceiling ?

If so Is there a way to do it without making the existing ceiling look to messy?

Cheers.

 

[JBPlasteringmcr]

If your skimming the ceiling too then yes I would use tape

 

[lilharbs]

Tape it anyway mate,then cut the excess away with a Stanley after.can always caulk the corner after.

 

[beddy]

Just tape up to the ceiling if there's any gaps skim it and if you're not happy after run a bead of caulking along it. Don't see the point in taping onto the ceiling then cutting it back after

 

[claire]

Well Beddy, thats the trouble with you guys who lack experience,live and leard and you may turn into a good spread on day.

 

[dmplastering]

I've always just skimmed to the angle. Never had a callback or problem yet.

Maybe ur just pish claire

 

[claire]

Probably, its just the way i was taught, and have never had any come backs either.

 

[JamieMac]

Hi,

I have put up a plasterboard wall using dot and dab. The ceiling did not need plastering. Do I need to tape the joint where the new wall meets the old ceiling ?

If so Is there a way to do it without making the existing ceiling look to messy?

Cheers.

just run a bit of fibre tape along the ceiling angle and polish it in.

 

[dmplastering]

We have all been taught by different people. Beddy says what works for him, what gives you the right to shoot him down

 

[robertrob]

Tape it anyway mate,then cut the excess away with a Stanley after.can always caulk the corner after.

Whats the point of that mate?

 

[spunky]

90 percent of the time the board isn't cut perfect so there's a gap and it helps reinforce this gap while youre troweling up, if you carefully trim it off and brush It in you don't see the scrim

 

[robertrob]

Ive scrimmed over the gap many a time but not over a 90 degree corner where t'other surface needs nowt doing to it. Just scrim up to it and mek sure you've got a good bit of scrim with thread right up to the edge if you know what I mean, hate it when scrim edges come away and stay on the roll. anybod else get that?

 

[claire]

Na, your just a tight Yorkshire man buying cheap scrim tape.

 

[robertrob]

what do you use 'claire'????

 

[claire]

We have all been taught by different people. Beddy says what works for him, what gives you the right to shoot him down

He is knob and from Coventry, so why not.

 

[robertrob]

what scrim do you use claire????

 

[Jace]

so who are you really claire??

 

[kebab king]

Probably Nisus i reckon

 

[Plastermind]

Hello mate yer if you tape wall and celing youll need to cutoff the scrim on the ceiling after but if you put the tape flat on the wall and butt it up to the ceiling so it touches jobs doe put the kettle on.

 

[JBPlasteringmcr]

Just ******* caulk the *******!

P.S I think Claire is spunky!

 

[Fatarm]

I think claire is an Albanian tiler from the tile forum?????mmmmmm

 

[malc]

we always scrim the ceiling lines and onto the ceiling. caulking out the ceiling so as we can twich the ceiling line.
we always twich out the ceiling lines as it look a lot smarter.

 

[JamieMac]

90 percent of the time the board isn't cut perfect so there's a gap and it helps reinforce this gap while youre troweling up, if you carefully trim it off and brush It in you don't see the scrim

its called cutting the angle.

 

[JBPlasteringmcr]

Recently there is a few new members that make me feel like I'm on the gold trowel forum.

 

[robertrob]

we always scrim the ceiling lines and onto the ceiling. caulking out the ceiling so as we can twich the ceiling line.
we always twich out the ceiling lines as it look a lot smarter.

until it flakes off. caulking is for decoraters, stop nicking ther work. :huh:

 

[malc]

until it flakes off. caulking is for decoraters, stop nicking ther work. :huh:

it does not flake off if you run a thincoat of pva on the ceiling first

 

[Fatarm]

Recently there is a few new members that make me feel like I'm on the gold trowel forum.

Agree jb somthing not quite right???? Might be a couple of clowns takin the piss, did Irish not sabotage the tilers forum a while back an got kicked out for takin the piss, maybe same kind of thing

 

[robertrob]

more money wasted, if that surface is sound why add anyhting to it mate......not been funny like :RpS_unsure:

 

[Fatarm]

So the caulk doesn't flake off???? I am just guessing

 

[claire]

Typical, tight Yorkshire man, to tight to use caulk.

 

[Nisus]

Probably Nisus i reckon

You know who it is, & it's not me :RpS_wink:

 

[malc]

So the caulk doesn't flake off???? I am just guessing

what we do is scrim the ceiling to the wall. apply a thin coat of pva to the ceiling about 6 inches wide. skim the wall and the 6 inch ceiling strip, twitch the ceiling line out. spounge the joint of the strip on the ceiling so that the strip blends in to the finished ceiling. sponge any marks off the ceiling. it will look a smart job try it.

 

[robertrob]

so becos you cant board it neatliy enough you do all that????

 

[malc]

so becos you cant board it neatliy enough you do all that????

no i can board well, i do enjoy boarding . these little extras that we do keeps are order book full and we are able to charge more then any one else.

 

[robertrob]

I reet!