Help with ceiling please

lollol

need advice re ceilings. I live in a 1960s flat. there are cracks in some of the ceilings. the lounge ceiling has some sort of pattern on it. I will put pics up for people to comment.
my ? is do i need to replace the whole ceiling because of these cracks or can they be repaired. The actial ceiling seems rather solid where i have had a look
http://i50.tinypic.com/2ez3exc.jpg

lollol

sorry dont know how to resize

DVardysShadow

lollol wrote: »

sorry dont know how to resize

Put them into paint and crop them. Then repost.

You could shrink their native resolution, but I think you would do better cropping.

de1amo

that looks like artex--leave well alone if 1960s-could be asbestos

keystone

All looks fairly normal to me. You certainly don't need to consider replacing them. Spot of filler or caulking in the crack and overpaint.

Cheers

ormus

just normal hairline cracks that appear now and agin. nothing to worry about really.
fill and repaint.

Plasterer

If it was my house, I would reskim it as I'm a plasterer.
However, for a cheap fix, fill it, "rake it out" about 3mm wide - Then use a filler.
Just trying to fill the cracks as they are won't work.

lollol

what do you mean reskim and which ceilings? all of them
I poked at the ceiling and the ceiling is quite solid. any ideas what its made of?

Yorkshire_Bred

I would say three choices depending on budget and how much the cracks annoy you?

1. Fill and repaint
2. Strip existing covering and line using scrim backed/fibre reinforced lining paper and paint
3. Skim and repaint

cons

i used polycell crack free ceilings on my bathroom and it worked a treat, read horrible reviews saying it didn't work but i decided to try for my self

sanded roof
painted with polycell ( left overnight )
painted again with polycell (left overnight )
then coated with bathroom paint

looks perfect

de1amo

Mr Plasterer--i live in a top floor flat and my artex ceiling has 'dropped' in places-due to water seapage in the years--can you nail it back up and skim the lot--or plaster board over the lot or bring it all down and start again???