Lathe plaster ceilings

cliffed · Sep 25, 2014

Fitting of recess led lights into lathe/plaster ceiling,becoming a right pain.Holes were drilled during 1st fix with hole cutter to suit size.When inserting fitting,springs take out load of plaster,which actually just falls away,so looks crap.Decorators not too pleased,lighting consultant also moaning,I just think they are the wrong fittings to fit in this situation,won't even comment on drivers & connections.Any one having the same probs,cheers.

PEG · Sep 25, 2014

SPARTYKUS said:
Yeah I doubt theres much difference between boot polish and that iron paste!

got a couple to do actually. As in old fireplaces that have been glossed (arrrhhhhhh) over and need taking back and blacking up. REALLY looking forward to it. Its one of those jobs on the 50+ list that is going to be done slowly. And properly. Like all the other jobs I do of course....

...You sound like a man after my own heart...I did my folks roof a while back,and begrudgingly put through on regs (as required here),BC officer,nice bloke,says "can i ask why you used copper nails and 1" battens?" I told him that i decided rather than do the minimum required,by the regs,i would do the maximum possible,by a dutiful son.He said "fair play,it'll outlast all of us..." :stooge_curly:

driverman · Sep 26, 2014

Off subject.........but whilst working for a DNO company in a conservation area, several shops /flats were being fed with new U/G supplies. The Guy overseeing the whole job wanted the DNO cables to emerge from the outside and clipped up the outside of each building to the internal meter positions. No problems there....as such. The guy wanted the cables hid! His suggestion, and he was very serious, was to hide said cables in Victorian metal rain water down pipe with gully at the top! I refused point blank giving my reasons from a safety point of view. No one would know that live mains cable would be with what looks like an everyday down pipe. I was not very popular. The council were spending millions on this particular area to get all the local shops etc to look original as it was years ago. I suggested tongue cheek get gas lamps installed!