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Santex exterior smooth paint for your ceilings matt no more cracks 😊

Stud finder - he was right in front of you all the time. 😂

On a ceiling use the finest screwdriver and use screwing action to pock up to feel for joist, easy on arms than using drill, all little holes are easy to fill.

You are doing a great job , last time I watched your videos it wasn’t this house you were working on , if this is your new house it is well worth doing the work on, it looks to have great potential and will be a lovely family home , good luck 👍

Remember no one really sits and looks at their ceiling so you don’t need to go too mad with finishing 😀

Very interesting. Been meaning to tackle the kitchen ceiling for along time. This has been the motivation and technical know how needed.

很佩服您的动手能力这么强，非常酷

I've got a crack in a wall that has come back after my repair and a crack in an artexed ceiling. I shall be following your methods to try and repair them and have noted your advice on fillers. All DIY is hard work. Don't enjoy it so much now at nearly 70 and procastination gets in the way. LOL. Your place is going to look FAB! ❤

A trick we do in NA (not everywhere, but better skilled plasterers) we mix our own mud for ceiling work where we put the PVA in the water (just a bit, your ratio is good) and mix the mud, and use some Plaster of Paris to decrease dry time.

You'll need Internet cable and maybe Sky cable for behind the TV.

Cracks are no fun unless it’s 😉

I found that if you can access above the crack and there is no joist to fix to, short pieces of old plaster board laid over the crack with lots of board adhesive (in several places along the crack) works a treat.

Jobs like this can become soul destroying, filling ,priming ,sanding repeat, repeat, repeat….. My latest discovery is a game changer, it’s plaster of Paris! 🎉🎉🎉 deep holes will set in minutes. Then I will use Easifill 60. I like your watery mixed powder filler technique, but I do recommend a ready mixed ‘fine surface filler’ instead for those final touches just before painting. My tip instead of fitting noggins over the ceiling crack is just to screw fix some off cuts of board , (18 m plywood or chipboard) above the crack/ joint to ‘stitch’ the joint together. Much quicker as don’t need to cut each piece to fit. Keep up the good work 😊

If you get plaster wall lights you can paint them to match your decor. We did that and left the inside of them white we also paired them with a dimmer switch LED-compatible one. Looks great.

Vicki, we live in a similar 70’s bungalow, every room in our house has sagging ceilings, or pillowing where the plasterboard sags between joists. I was told it is because the builder used thinner plaster board, normally used for ceilings on the ground floor of a two story house. Thicker plaster board should have been used for ceilings below a loft due to the differences between warm and cold spaces.unfortunately for me we are going to have to drop all the ceilings as they are too far gone. Love the channel.

Is mr TCD camera shy?

Would you have gone down the taping method?

Clever dog

Get yourself a dehumidifier, plaster will dry quicker

Brilliant video as ever!

Hi Vickie, I had the same problems as you with long cracks in ceilings. One of the things I did was to drill small holes along the crack, then use low expanding foam. Leave overnight, cut off the excess and then fill. I don’t like the tape, as you say it take ages to get a decent finish. I picked up the foam tip from a UTube guy, painting and decorating. I’m enjoying following your renovation series of videos 👍

Vikkie great job.I have one of those stud finders, they are a pain in the bum.

Use expanding foam to fill the holes and cracks then trim off any excess then apply some filler to finish off and sand. 👍

You did a very thorough job Vikkie. Well done.

Whatever you do, don’t mount that TV too high! Google it! Use the calculation based on where you’ll be sitting…

Judging by the crack there is no tape on the joins of the plasterboard, this means there’s a good chance the crack will continue to return over time. Would suggest either using scrim tape or paper taping this join and apply 3 flushes of filler over the tape

Hi Vikkie..what was starting guide price, and final price please 👍👍👍

Add some containment in the wall so you can pull hdmi and future cable if needed etc.. assuming your have a media cabinet below

Miss sexy bum . England's 🌹 loved the sexy stud finder in your pants .so sexy a lady worker ❤i use the mesh tape really good results with it .

Brilliant another job ticked off the list it’s going to look fantastic when it’s all done, well done Vikkie and Mr TCD 😊

The boat is scrap. Don't waste any more time than it takes to get removed.

*Well done... a lot of hard work.... 🙂 Your hubby is a good man, to climb up into the ceiling as you were working well together. 🙂nz*

Your a bodger of the first order

FYI some of the audio is only on the right channel, at minute 9 and the last two minutes. I was confused as I only had one earphone in 😂

Nice job Vikkie ❤

gypsum easy sand 20 is very good and it doesn't leave any filler Lines

Don’t use Pva, use SBR for bonding before plastering, fillers or sizing prior to papering, will not emulsify when in contact with wet or damp products……..

Mechanical fixings every time Vikkie Nice job.

I use Easifill. Comes in big bags

In the past l have used screws to strengthen the boards each side of the cracks, same as you did. Then l scrape off plaster the width of mesh self adhesive tape back to the bare board and apply the tape. This recesses the tape deep enough to fill over so its nice and smooth when rubbed down. I have never had a crack come back using this method.

If Helena Bonham Carter was good at DIY.

The storage radiators are likely to have ceramic fibre board as the insulation material...successor to asbestos, but still really bad to breathe. Might be worth getting some small rare earth magnets that you can use to stick to the existing nails in the ceiling so you can find the joists. More reliable than a stud finder.

A proper job often takes more time. You can’t rush wallboard fixes. Without places to screw into you can’t expect the cracks not to just be back as there are temperature changes or some movement and you’re right back to where you started. You corrected the problem the right way.

One of the things I was surprised about doing this was the reaction of some fillers to heat from electrical wires. It releases an oil that leeches through the emulsion to give a nice streak down the wall. On the plus side, I don't need to search for the wires when I'm nailing stuff up.

Instead of plaster, alabaster is very good for hairline cracks as it is much easier to sand and smooth.

Ceiling cracks - with loft above. I had a few cracks on my 1st floor landing which followed joints in the plasterboard. Went into the loft & wedged some scrap wood planks between the joists under the insulation above the cracks. I then & screwed through the plasterboard up into the planks from below. This stopped the plasterboard joints from moving any further. I then made a V gouge in the cracks to make space for filler & mesh tape. This was made more difficult because I had a heavily textured ceiling. Lots of blending & stippling & a fresh coat of matt emulsion later & the cracks have totally disappeared. Another great video.

If I’ve ever had to go into the loft to find fixing points, or as you found, floating plaster boards, I simply pieced through the board from above giving me a perfect reference point for the stud, my reasoning is I’m filling anyway so a little hole to give that secure fixing is worth it.

A number of small magnets usually make good stud finders. They don't find the stud itself but the screws and nails used to fix the plasterboard to the stud

If it was me, I would have added the screws and used paper tape or an ultra fine mesh. I understand why you wouldn't want to add the paper tape and if the crack do come back, you can always add the tape as needed.

I used strong magnet to find the previous screws/nails. Once you line up the magnet we're able to find the joist and avoid any nails already there. 👍