Yip, after ripping down a false ceiling and the original ceiling, putting up a new ceiling, getting it plastered, I managed to put my foot through it whilst working in the room above, not my finest hour and currently consoling myself with a bottle of jack daniels to kill the pain and the memory.

So, will I be able to cut the damaged area out and put up a patch (approx 2 ft square), plaster it, paint it and will it blend in with the existing ceiling or will I never be able to make it look right without having the whole ceiling skimmed ?


Cheers, John

Not as bad as it seems, but you will need to cut back to a joist and probably fit a couple of noggins in to make sure the new and the old bits are supported. Tape it up and skim it over.

And get some floorboards down.

work top down mate... now you know why...

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and dont go double checking it while you have had a few JDs or there may be more holes

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Spot on cwplastering.

The number of times of seen the nails/screws pop on the new ceiling when fixing the boards above down.

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I had a single floor board up due to trying to find were some water was coming in (unsuccessfully I may add lol) and I couldn't get a replacement floor board so was hanging off to get some ply wood to use as a replacement, been quite a few weeks like this and got completely complacent, never did I imagine that I would be able to fit down the gap, never mind go right through the gap and through my nice new ceiling below, cannae believe I was soo dumb, not me, I'm far too smart to do something so stupid lol I also can't believe I took two days off my work to do something that has probably put me 3 days behind, thoroughly peeved off.


Cheers, John

I fitted my own bathroom last year and ran the pipe for the shower behind the bath plastererd and tiled and made a note of the location of the pipe and yes i then fitted the shower door and screwed right through the poly pipe i was so god dam annoyed with myself i turned the water of and went the pub lol. The misses couldn't stop laughing lol

you are in good company