Lowering Bathroom Ceiling. How?

m4rky

I want to lower my bathroom ceiling by 200mm so we can get some downlighters installed and also to hide the mouldy artex that currently exists.

In a normal room I would attach a square wooden frame around the room screwed into the walls at the height I require.

Unfortunately our house is of an age where the roof comes into the upstairs rooms so two of the walls are sloping. Also there is a roof truss that goes from one corner into the middle of the room that needs to be taken into account.

I have bought a pile of 25x50mm and 50x50mm timber which I was hoping to again make a frame which is screwed to the non-sloping walls but I am unsure how to handle the sloping bits and the truss??

Any ideas or names of useful devices I can use?

Thanks, Mark

AMILLIONDOLLARS

Firstly, if I were you I would sort out the problem of the "mouldy artex" pointless covering it up until you have solved the problem of it re-occuring on your new ceiling, it could be an indication that you need proper ventilation in the bathroom, a fan perhaps and this will need be incorporated into the new ceiling. with regards to the slopes, no idea.

AMD

m4rky

Yep I have a new bathroom Fan to go into the wall that is going to be fitted.
Also going to give the artex a good clean with bleach.

Think I need to find and mark out all the joists so I can get a better idea of what needs doing.

m4rky

Maybe a picture would help?

http://www.diynot.com/network/m4rky/albums/453/1339

The red line shows where I intend to lower the ceiling to.
Its a very quick sketch and its not to scale.
As the new ceiling will not totally cover the roof beam as the picture suggests.

The room is 1.7x1.7m and the height ranges from 2.1m to 2.6 m.
I want to lower it to 2.4m.

Thanks.