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How to repair celing after burst pipe

  • 11-02-2009 05:54PM
    #1
    ArdDonagh
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    The builder hit one of the pipes in the upstairs bathroom with a nail causing water to flood down through the celing affecting part of the kitchen and sittingroom. They took down a section of celing on both sides and replaced it. The replaced section is not entirely level with the older celing and even when it is painted you can see the join. (It has been painted several times). I do NOT want to get the builders back as they make a bigger mess everytime they "fix" someting! Is there anything that can be done to hide this, a paint perhaps, - I do not want to have the entire celing redone.

    Any advice would be appreciated.
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  • #2
    ART6
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    ArdDonagh wrote: »
    The builder hit one of the pipes in the upstairs bathroom with a nail causing water to flood down through the celing affecting part of the kitchen and sittingroom. They took down a section of celing on both sides and replaced it. The replaced section is not entirely level with the older celing and even when it is painted you can see the join. (It has been painted several times). I do NOT want to get the builders back as they make a bigger mess everytime they "fix" someting! Is there anything that can be done to hide this, a paint perhaps, - I do not want to have the entire celing redone.

    Any advice would be appreciated.

    I wouldn't think there is any way to hide the difference in levels with any sort of paint alone, but Artex would. However, you would have to cover the whole ceiling. If the difference in levels is very small then lining paper over the ceiling followed by painting would probably do it.


  • #3
    Juwwi
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    the easiest way to do it is to sand down the edges of new plaster and lightly fill the edges with polyfilla .then the polyfilla can be sanded down and painted and it would definately improve the situation.

    l've done it loads of times and most of the time it virtually disappears depending on how good a job the plasterer did at patching up the ceiling.

    lining paer would also work but its a bigger job than my sugestion.


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