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Thanks again!

One more thing:

Where I have made the stud wall I had to rip down all the old lath and
plaster from the ceiling where the head plate went and around it. It
was in terrible condition big cracks blown and just waiting to drop on
my head, In fact most of my upstairs is like that. I plan to just
plasterboard over in other rooms after looking like a chimney sweep for
a couple of days!

The problem I have now is that one part of the new stud wall is running
parallel with the ceiling joists. When I come to plasterboard the
ceiling I'm worried that there will be nowhere to screw the
plasterboard edge too, the nearest joist that I can screw to is about
350mm away. Will this provide enought rigidity? (if thats a word)
failing that should I attach a strip of wood to the head plate which I
can screw into through the plasterboard, or could I just leave a gap
around the top when I board the walls which will allow the ceiling
plasterboard to rest on the edge. The run where I have this problem is
not that long, about 4ft.

What to do?

Stop worryingn, leave a 3mm gap and use decorators caulk to fill it
prior to painting.

Or use the sticky tape to cover the gap before plastering.

TIA

Cheers

Richard