[Closed] DIY - Help the incompetent

Silk purse, sows ear.

I'd be looking at pulling that off and resheeting ceiling, or if it's a sell the place job, do the ceiling with plastic channel lining.

Cheers, not selling it. So whole new ceiling? That’ll take some saving up for.

Water damaged plasterboard is not really repairable as I would when the immersion heater failed and boiled the header tank 🙁

Cut back to get a nicer edge that isn't blown so badly. Cut 2 or 3 battens of wood, maybe 4" longer than the hole each end, slide them in and screw through existing plaster border to secure. Make cardboard template of hole (easier if you cut back to a rectangle). Piece of plasterboard screwed to battens. Polyfilla. Strip ceiling and put lining paper/anaglypta up and you'd never know.

Stuffed cat?

Make the hole oblong clean up above remove dirt dust etc then cut piece of plasterboard 25mm bigger same shape then stick another piece same size as hole on bottom, put screw through board so you can pull it down onto adhesive, fill any gaps after its gone off with filler.

Not that bad if you can just remove the damaged sheet. Then it's just a case of skimming it level with the existing ceiling.

Get a decent plasterer in, it'll cost you but it'll be done right.

Thanks all. Must admit I’m liking the cat idea

I would do it as midlifecrashes says.  The only bit I would add is to use paper tape across the joins before skimming as it will stop a crack showing between the joins later.  There is a mesh tape you can also use but I've always found it more difficult to stop the mesh showing through.  If you are going to paper the whole ceiling then you don't care of course 🙂

Do what the previous owners did in our kitchen after a leak- just fit a new layer of plasterboard on the whole ceiling!

Gyproc mesh patches

Tbh roof and walls look to be in more need of full bhuna skim but guessing that a bathroom refit isn't on the cards so mesh patches it is

Yeah bathroom refit not on the cards unfortunately. Very expensive thing to do to make the room you shit in look nice 🤣

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These things. Got 4 or 5 in my spare room ceiling to repair damage removing the *fitted* plywood lookalike 90s wardrobe suite nonsense the previous owner thought was nice.

You'd not know they are there. Been there 8 years or so

Thanks trail_rat they look like just the thing 👍🏼

Aye you basically pick the right size. Wet it with easifill

Slap it on a skim over with a knife of easifill

Duly noted!

I'm glad you lot are not boarding my house ha.

It's not a big job to take the boards down and do the whole ceiling, bathrooms are generally 4 or 5 sheets max and it would be satisfying to just do it right, looks like the black hole of Calcutta up there.

alternately remove around the hole till you find the edge, you are looking for wooden battens that the edge of that one board screwed or nailed into around the edge, clean it all off, take the screws out, tidy up, measure the hole, measure the thickness of the existing board, go get a new board..B&Q cut it to size if it's too big to go in the car or whatever and you don't want the off cuts, pick up a small bag of plaster at the same time and a flexi scraper thing(cheaper than a trowel)

Present board to hole, get someone to hold it up with a brush, screw around the edge into the now exposed wooden batten, and done.

Mix the plaster and skim along the join, wet the scraper and go over it again, leave to dry and do it again till it looks smooth, if you are rubbish at this sort of thing get some sand paper and one of those flat pad things with a handle on and give it a sand between/after plaster drying.

Then paint and admire your new found ability to do stuff, should cost about £20 if you borrow some of the tools.

Do what the previous owners did in our kitchen after a leak- just fit a new layer of plasterboard on the whole ceiling!

That's what a plasterer would do, if the ceiling is sound two layers is fine and saves levelling again.

I’m glad you lot are not boarding my house ha.

Most methods valid.

Varying degrees of expense and disruption.

So whole new ceiling? That’ll take some saving up for

It's a few sheets of plasterboard and a bag of plaster, boards are 8x4 feet, 3 usually does a bathroom, bout a tenner each, bag of plaster is about 6 quid.

Most methods valid.

Varying degrees of expense and disruption.

True, you could also go into the attic and screw a bit of plywood over the hole, go back down and cut a square around the hole and screw a bit of plasterboard into the square, patched.

For me it's quicker/better, if a lot messier, to find the battens and replace the bit of plaster board.

I'd be more concerned about rot in the timber above, doesn't look great.