Styrofoam ceiling tiles

DMDz

Buying a house to rent off which has Styrofoam roof tiles. I’ve been advised I need to remove these incase there is a fire (they turn to treacle). They have plaster covings around the edge which I’ll leave alone to avoid re-decorating the entire room.

Any idea what I could put in their place? Apparently they were originally put up to hide a cracked ceiling – I assume I’ll have to put something in their place, but am clueless to what!

Thanks in advance.

VH

We had these up when we moved in, had to remove them with a bulldog scraper. However they left so much glue on the ceiling that we had to get every ceiling in the house replastered to cover where they'd been!

I suggest you do this unless you're looking for a cheaper solution.

robowen

I removed them from all my ceilings. They came off ok with a hard and sharp scraper.
Some of the glue was a pig to get off, but most blobs of glue pinged off when I got the scraper under it.
I used a steam stripper to soften the rest. I didn't need to plaster any of my ceilings.
It was a laborious job though. I did a bit at a time.

Covering the ceiling after was easy. We just papered with some heavy duty blown vinyl. The paper was quite thick, so it covered any cracks.

Jay-Jay_4

We had it too but found it fairly easy to get off (I managed fine and I was 5 months pregnant). It's not so bad if the glue is 'blobbed' on each corner rather than pasted over the whole tile. Best bet is to remove a couple and see what's underneath then you know what state the ceiling will be in.

If it's not too bad then blown vinyl is a cheap and easy(ish) option. Coving is also fairly cheap and easy to replace if you're going for the polysterene kind.

If it's quite bad you could skim it with Artex and stipple it.....just don't do the big swirls

robowen

Jay-Jay wrote:

If it's not too bad then blown vinyl is a cheap and easy(ish) option. Coving is also fairly cheap and easy to replace if you're going for the polysterene kind.

don't tell everyone it's cheap and easy :rolleyes:

I don't do cheap

It's quality at an affordable price :rotfl:

Jay-Jay_4

robowen wrote:

don't tell everyone it's cheap and easy :rolleyes:

I don't do cheap

It's quality at an affordable price :rotfl:

Of course

It CAN be cheap but as you said that you used 'heavy duty blown vinyl' I presume that you mean the really expensive stuff.....which is much more difficult to hang and requires a great amount of skill.