Tina Ruffle
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TIme for my next question!
In our living room and dining room we have clay on reed ceilings. We did not know these were here originally - it was all polystyrene ceiling tiles which we happily took off. Now the quandary is do we keep them even though they are not practical?? I'll explain my reasons below but i do feel like we should keep them...Our conservation officer said if we can live with it just limewash and keep them....
Reasons why not practical:
1. There are several holes in it - one where a ceiling rose was and another the electrician made. How do we patch and repair?
2. THere are a lot of cracks and in places it has lost it's key and sags.
3. THe clay is over an inch thick and it appears the floor above is sagging under the weight (room is 4.5m sq + and this is quite a large space for the size of joists).
4. THe ceiling ranges between 6ft2 and 6ft 4 up from the floor - not good for anybody tall - esp as the limewash over it flakes off and leaves them with a white head.
5. The limewash flakes off - and we have a permanent layer of white dust.
6. There is a second ceiling further up - at least we know there is def in places. This is lath and plaster and is between the whitewashed beams.
7. The floor above sags and is rather bouncy. We'd like to make it feel a bit securer. As it stands we are wary of putting furniture in the middle.
THat all sounds like i have made my mind up i know, but there is always this niggling feeling that it would be wrong to pull it down.
We've lived with it for 5 months now and really don't know what is best. Any input? How far do you go to preserve interesting features?
In our living room and dining room we have clay on reed ceilings. We did not know these were here originally - it was all polystyrene ceiling tiles which we happily took off. Now the quandary is do we keep them even though they are not practical?? I'll explain my reasons below but i do feel like we should keep them...Our conservation officer said if we can live with it just limewash and keep them....
Reasons why not practical:
1. There are several holes in it - one where a ceiling rose was and another the electrician made. How do we patch and repair?
2. THere are a lot of cracks and in places it has lost it's key and sags.
3. THe clay is over an inch thick and it appears the floor above is sagging under the weight (room is 4.5m sq + and this is quite a large space for the size of joists).
4. THe ceiling ranges between 6ft2 and 6ft 4 up from the floor - not good for anybody tall - esp as the limewash over it flakes off and leaves them with a white head.
5. The limewash flakes off - and we have a permanent layer of white dust.
6. There is a second ceiling further up - at least we know there is def in places. This is lath and plaster and is between the whitewashed beams.
7. The floor above sags and is rather bouncy. We'd like to make it feel a bit securer. As it stands we are wary of putting furniture in the middle.
THat all sounds like i have made my mind up i know, but there is always this niggling feeling that it would be wrong to pull it down.
We've lived with it for 5 months now and really don't know what is best. Any input? How far do you go to preserve interesting features?