Plaster Ceiling Repair Screws

Screwed it back in using plaster screws spaced reasonably close if you have old hardwood rafters might be best to pre drill first you may have trouble getting the screw in far enough without twisting the head off.

Plaster ceiling repair screws.

Secure the patch with 1 5 8 drywall screws. Great for securing plaster that is coming off walls or for securing the edge of plaster when installing a dry wall patch or a plaster patch. Scrape away any loose veneer. Screw plaster washers to ceiling along and around cracked area.

Use a drywall screw with a plaster washer to re secure the damaged sections of plaster to the lathe. Using plaster magic prevents having to skim the entire ceiling because it uses a very effective adhesive to reattach the plaster to the lathe meaning no permanent plaster washers. Be sure to drive screws into wood lath above. Or possibly the screws are too.

Before doing any plaster ceiling repair make sure to setup drop clothes and wear eye protection. A plaster washer is a thin metal disk that increases the size of the head of a drywall screw so that it doesn t pull through the plaster. A drywall screw goes through the washer and is driven into the wood lath behind the plaster. How to fix screws in ceiling plaster.

Seemed to work ok and pretty simple. The buttons distribute the pressure over a much larger area than the drywall screw alone. Here is a step by step guide to how to fix plaster ceilings in your old house. 1 one inch plaster repair washers ceiling buttons 300 pieces.

In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to repair a plaster ceiling. Plaster work is easy to repair even for the novice with the a few simple tools materials and charles street supply s exclusive plaster washers. Cover with joint compound and father out 18. Plaster washers are about the size of a quarter and cost pennies.

I propped the ceiling sheet up from underneath using some planks of wood for props. By using modern materials and a traditional technique it is possible to repair plaster ceilings that are cracking and delaminating. For areas where the washers don t hold or the plaster is very damaged cut out the plaster and create a patch using drywall. Screws that pull or pop out of the ceiling are often the result of using screws that are too short or have very fine threads.

Screws save the time of fitting wooden shores and keep the work area clear but they can damage the plaster. Long screws with washer heads are used to pull the drywall and old ceiling back up to the framing or as close to level as possible.