advice on shadow line on plastered ceiling

[alecgreen]

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

[The Natural Philosopher]

be pateint. |Probably needs to fully dry.

[harry]

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.

[alecgreen]

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

[here@home.com DerbyBoy]

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Lower the position of the lights?

[sm_jamieson]

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

[Martin Bonner]

On Jun 9, 8:58 am, sm_jamieson <sm_jamie...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 8, 11:37 pm, "DerbyBoy" <No-one h...@home.com> wrote:
> > "alecgreen"  wrote in message
> >news:df21e416-a82d-438a...@p21g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
>
> > On Jun 8, 7:32 am, harry <haroldhr...@aol.com> wrote:
>>> On Jun 7, 10:21 pm, alecgreen <alecgr...@hotmail.co.uk> 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.

[Phil L]

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