Hi

I am looking for some help and advice regarding a shadow line on my
newly plastered ceiling. I have a large living room, roughly 20ft long
by 13ft wide and have just had it plastered. While the plaster was
wet, it looked brilliant and I thanked the guy who did it for doing a
good job. Then it dryed and a few imperfections showed, but still
looked good. But after painting white and refitting the lights there
is a shadow line right across the room (following a joist I believe).
Now I hate it and wondered if I have any options apart from another
skim.

Thanks

Alec

On Jun 7, 10:21*pm, alecgreen wrote:
Hi

I am looking for some help and advice regarding a shadow line on my
newly plastered ceiling. I have a large living room, roughly 20ft long
by 13ft wide and have just had it plastered. While the plaster was
wet, it looked brilliant and I thanked the guy who did it for doing a
good job. Then it dryed and a few imperfections showed, but still
looked good. But after painting white and refitting the lights there
is a shadow line right across the room (following a joist I believe).
Now I hate it and wondered if I have any options apart from another
skim.

Thanks

Alec

It may be that there is a change in the levels of the ceiling.
(Especiallly if the room has had in interior wall removed in the
past.)
Lay a straight edge across this line and see if there is a high/low
spot.
If so, the only thing to do is to try and feather it out with plaster
(ie create a shallow "ramp" from one level to the next.) This will
make it less noticeable.

On Jun 8, 7:32*am, harry wrote:
On Jun 7, 10:21*pm, alecgreen wrote:

Hi

I am looking for some help and advice regarding a shadow line on my
newly plastered ceiling. I have a large living room, roughly 20ft long
by 13ft wide and have just had it plastered. While the plaster was
wet, it looked brilliant and I thanked the guy who did it for doing a
good job. Then it dryed and a few imperfections showed, but still
looked good. But after painting white and refitting the lights there
is a shadow line right across the room (following a joist I believe).
Now I hate it and wondered if I have any options apart from another
skim.

Thanks

Alec

It may be that there is a change in the levels of the ceiling.
(Especiallly if the room has had in interior wall removed in the
past.)
Lay a straight edge across this line and see if there is a high/low
spot.
If so, the only thing to do is to try and feather it out with plaster
(ie create a shallow "ramp" from one level to the next.) This will
make it less noticeable.

Thanks!, tried that and thats what it is. Should a good plasterer do
that easily?

"alecgreen" wrote in message
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On Jun 8, 7:32 am, harry wrote:
On Jun 7, 10:21 pm, alecgreen wrote:

Hi

I am looking for some help and advice regarding a shadow line on my
newly plastered ceiling. I have a large living room, roughly 20ft long
by 13ft wide and have just had it plastered. While the plaster was
wet, it looked brilliant and I thanked the guy who did it for doing a
good job. Then it dryed and a few imperfections showed, but still
looked good. But after painting white and refitting the lights there
is a shadow line right across the room (following a joist I believe).
Now I hate it and wondered if I have any options apart from another
skim.

Thanks

Alec

It may be that there is a change in the levels of the ceiling.
(Especiallly if the room has had in interior wall removed in the
past.)
Lay a straight edge across this line and see if there is a high/low
spot.
If so, the only thing to do is to try and feather it out with plaster
(ie create a shallow "ramp" from one level to the next.) This will
make it less noticeable.

Thanks!, tried that and thats what it is. Should a good plasterer do
that easily?


Lower the position of the lights?

On Jun 8, 11:37*pm, "DerbyBoy" No-one wrote:
"alecgreen" *wrote in message

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On Jun 8, 7:32 am, harry wrote:



On Jun 7, 10:21 pm, alecgreen wrote:

Hi

I am looking for some help and advice regarding a shadow line on my
newly plastered ceiling. I have a large living room, roughly 20ft long
by 13ft wide and have just had it plastered. While the plaster was
wet, it looked brilliant and I thanked the guy who did it for doing a
good job. Then it dryed and a few imperfections showed, but still
looked good. But after painting white and refitting the lights there
is a shadow line right across the room (following a joist I believe).
Now I hate it and wondered if I have any options apart from another
skim.

Thanks

Alec

It may be that there is a change in the levels of the ceiling.
(Especiallly if the room has had in interior wall removed in the
past.)
Lay a straight edge across this line and see if there is a high/low
spot.
If so, the only thing to do is to try and feather it out with plaster
(ie create a shallow "ramp" from one level to the next.) This will
make it less noticeable.

Thanks!, tried that and thats what it is. Should a good plasterer do
that easily?

Lower the position of the lights?

Surely the point of a plasterer is to give a flat ceiling? Sounds like
it was a poor job.
Simon.

On Jun 9, 8:58*am, sm_jamieson wrote:
On Jun 8, 11:37*pm, "DerbyBoy" No-one wrote:
"alecgreen" *wrote in message
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On Jun 8, 7:32 am, harry wrote:
On Jun 7, 10:21 pm, alecgreen wrote:
I am looking for some help and advice regarding a shadow line on my
newly plastered ceiling. I have a large living room, roughly 20ft long
by 13ft wide and have just had it plastered. While the plaster was
wet, it looked brilliant and I thanked the guy who did it for doing a
good job. Then it dryed and a few imperfections showed, but still
looked good. But after painting white and refitting the lights there
is a shadow line right across the room (following a joist I believe).
Now I hate it and wondered if I have any options apart from another
skim.


It may be that there is a change in the levels of the ceiling.
(Especiallly if the room has had in interior wall removed in the
past.)
Lay a straight edge across this line and see if there is a high/low
spot.
If so, the only thing to do is to try and feather it out with plaster
(ie create a shallow "ramp" from one level to the next.) This will
make it less noticeable.

Thanks!, tried that and thats what it is. Should a good plasterer do
that easily?

Lower the position of the lights?

Surely the point of a plasterer is to give a flat ceiling? Sounds like
it was a poor job.
Simon.

If the ceilings in the original two rooms were at different levels by,
say, half an inch, there's not much a plasterer can do. The fact that
the OP was happy until the lighting was installed, suggests that the
plastered did a pretty good job of feathering the two levels into one
another.

sm_jamieson wrote:
Surely the point of a plasterer is to give a flat ceiling? Sounds like
it was a poor job.
Simon.

Nope, the job of a plasterer is to do what the customer asks (and pays) him
to do.

Often there is a rogue joist which is half an inch or more lower than it's
neighbours, there is little a plasterer can do in this situation, unless the
customer wants him to remove boards and affix packers to adjacent joists
prior to re-boarding and plastering, but this is a rarity as no-one wants
the expense or hassle.

Joists sometimes bow the opposite way too, but in these cases it's fairly
straightforward to fill in the low spots