Plaster Skimming - Repair or Improvement?

makeitstop

AdrianC wrote: »

If you don't go there now, it's not going to get any better over time... If there's a plasterer coming in anyway, why NOT do it now? Give him five sides to skim instead of just four.

Ripping down the old ceiling isn't that horrific a job if the room's empty and the place is going to be dusty anyway. Then some new p'board, and job's a good 'un.

What seems standard work for some may well be considered as horrific by others with less experience though.

If there's no appetite for it, it's not pretty work. However, the results of getting stuck in and doing it are worth the hassle in my view, and arguably essential if the existing stuff is in horribly poor condition.

anselld

makeitstop wrote: »

What seems standard work for some may well be considered as horrific by others with less experience though.

If there's no appetite for it, it's not pretty work. However, the results of getting stuck in and doing it are worth the hassle in my view, and arguably essential if the existing stuff is in horribly poor condition.

Most plasterers would just overboard and skim. There is little additional benefit to creating all that mess.

silvercar

anselld wrote: »

Most plasterers would just overboard and skim. There is little additional benefit to creating all that mess.

Unless the original is in bad shape, then over boarding and skimming is not going to hold for very long.

We just found that a previous ceiling overboard and skim had been held up by coving! When the coving was removed (to enhance the fire protection for conversion to HMO) the whole lot fell down. Suddenly. The knock on effect was that some of the wall plaster detached from the walls and we ended up removing, reboarding and plastering the walls.

anselld

silvercar wrote: »

Unless the original is in bad shape, then over boarding and skimming is not going to hold for very long.

We just found that a previous ceiling overboard and skim had been held up by coving! When the coving was removed (to enhance the fire protection for conversion to HMO) the whole lot fell down. Suddenly. The knock on effect was that some of the wall plaster detached from the walls and we ended up removing, reboarding and plastering the walls.

Overboarding should be screwed to the joists using long plasterboard screws. It should easily retain the old plaster *if* done correctly.

silvercar

anselld wrote: »

Overboarding should be screwed to the joists using long plasterboard screws. It should easily retain the old plaster *if* done correctly.

Not if the old plaster was only held up by coving by some previous builder's botch job. And then you remove the coving in order to overboard, leaving nothing to hold it up....

anselld

silvercar wrote: »

Not if the old plaster was only held up by coving by some previous builder's botch job. And then you remove the coving in order to overboard, leaving nothing to hold it up....

Yea, fair enough if it won't even stay in place long enough to get the board on, you haven't got much choice!

ck_uk

booksurr wrote: »

what comes after the refurb? If the intention behind the purchase is to....

- refurb and sell on, you will be subject to income tax on everything, not CGT as you are undertaking property trading

- place the property into a rental business then the plastering would be an allowable cost against your income tax, as it is a business asset not an investment

- hold as a second home then it will form part of the capital cost as referenced by anselld and will be subject to CGT when you finally sell up as it is an investment asset

To answer that question, not interested in letting, but possibly for living in for a short time (undecided as yet) however more likely to just resell and take the full punishment for our efforts from HMRC..

AdrianC

When Booksurr says "Income tax on everything", he means on the profit you've made...