Monty
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Hello, I'm a very long-term lurker on this fabulous forum, and enjoy very much the off-topic digressions!
I do have a couple of questions that I hope the great and the good can help me with, as I have done all of the usual internet searches but to no avail.
When our house was altered and extended around 1870 all of the upstairs rooms received matchboard T&G ceilings, as did some of the room partitions. All of the boards 6" (155mm) read and bead matchboard and still in very good condition
My first is does anyone know where I can get new 155mm as I would like to build a new wall to match. The widest I can find is 144mm new. The only other option is reclaimed but the few bits I've found are mostly in poor condition and the cost is large - not that I can do the usual crawl of the reclaimed yards at the moment.
The second question is, some of the ceiling boards have pulled apart slightly leaving small gaps between the boards, resulting in cracked paint (all emulsion done by the previous owner as we have only been in 18 months) and dust dropping through - often on the head of my youngest when he is in bed. So what do people think is the best way to plug these gaps whilst still retaining the character of the bead in the matchboards?
Many thanks all
I do have a couple of questions that I hope the great and the good can help me with, as I have done all of the usual internet searches but to no avail.
When our house was altered and extended around 1870 all of the upstairs rooms received matchboard T&G ceilings, as did some of the room partitions. All of the boards 6" (155mm) read and bead matchboard and still in very good condition
My first is does anyone know where I can get new 155mm as I would like to build a new wall to match. The widest I can find is 144mm new. The only other option is reclaimed but the few bits I've found are mostly in poor condition and the cost is large - not that I can do the usual crawl of the reclaimed yards at the moment.
The second question is, some of the ceiling boards have pulled apart slightly leaving small gaps between the boards, resulting in cracked paint (all emulsion done by the previous owner as we have only been in 18 months) and dust dropping through - often on the head of my youngest when he is in bed. So what do people think is the best way to plug these gaps whilst still retaining the character of the bead in the matchboards?
Many thanks all