Cracked ceiling

Pinkangel

Hi

The main bedroom of my 1960s house has a ceiling that's covered in painted woodchip. That alone would be bad enough, but there are also cracks along the plasterboard joints that are so bad they have come through the woodchip. My goal is to end up with a smooth, un-cracked, un-woodchipped ceiling! But I'm struggling to figure out the best route for achieving this.

A plasterer came round to give us a quote and said that if we remove the woodchip he can then skim the ceiling, and that will fix the cracks. However, having already gone down a similar route in the bathroom and seen the cracks then reappear a few months later, I'm sceptical this would work. I believe the plasterer put tape on first in the bathroom, before skimming, and that didn't help.

The plasterer seemed to think that it wasn't worth overboarding the bedroom, and said the cracks could still reappear through the new boards. Is this right? Surely there's more chance of getting rid of the cracks for good with overboarding than with just skimming the existing boards?

Any thoughts/advice/experience of similar issues would be much appreciated

brightontraveller

If “ cracks are caused by not enough support etc try adding screws, tightening existing, if cause is by load/ movement then overboarding would add to load and potentially make it worse, but skimming wouldn’t be cure it either , I,d investigate further eliminate the obvious lack of support, fixing method, structural movement etc( often has wood chip because its pretty bad before paper went up? )Personally after elimination I'd remove all existing board and re-board its not that more cost?