Summary: Learn how to plasterboard a ceiling, remove old plasterboard, locate a joist and fix plasterboard to a joist.
Nailing sheets of plasterboard to ceiling joists is the best way to fit a new ceiling.
This can be done by:
It is best to work with your head 150mm below the ceiling, so you will need a scaffold tower or create a platform using scaffold boards firmly supported by a decorator's trestle at each end.
To avoid injury it is best to have someone to help you, as sheets of plasterboard are large and heavy and difficult to manoeuvre on your own. It is also recommended that you hire a panel lifter or make a deadman, which is a square piece of plywood or chipboard nailed to the end of a length of timber that reaches from floor to the ceiling. This is used to support the plasterboard when nailing.
Use a panel lifter or deadman to support the plasterboard when nailing.
Nail the plasterboard to the joists remembering to stagger the rows to avoid all the boards ending on the same joists.
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