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summertime · 09-14-2006, 01:35 PM

Hi this is a picture of a 10 ft 6in recess in middle of a ceiling, it will be plaster boarded( do you call it drywall?) with 5/8in board, then plastered.Wardrobes will follow in a circle all around the room. the doors will be walnut inlaid with silver.
do people want to see this type of stuff or is the forum realy for questions, never been involved with a forum before, soon learn if told

**Double-A** · 09-14-2006, 02:19 PM

Its for both. Participation is not only required, but we've been known to tar and feather lurkers.

We lose more good trim carpenters that way...

Yes, we call it sheetrock (trade name) drywall (another trade name) or gypsum board. Usually just 'rock' for short.

jmic · 09-14-2006, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by summertime

Hi this is a picture of a 10 ft 6in recess in middle of a ceiling, it will be plaster boarded( do you call it drywall?) with 5/8in board, then plastered.Wardrobes will follow in a circle all around the room. the doors will be walnut inlaid with silver.
do people want to see this type of stuff or is the forum realy for questions, never been involved with a forum before, soon learn if told

Ok quick, who can tell me how many blocks it took to make that circle?

DecksEtc · 09-14-2006, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by summertime

Hi this is a picture of a 10 ft 6in recess in middle of a ceiling, it will be plaster boarded( do you call it drywall?) with 5/8in board, then plastered.Wardrobes will follow in a circle all around the room. the doors will be walnut inlaid with silver.
do people want to see this type of stuff or is the forum realy for questions, never been involved with a forum before, soon learn if told

We love pictures!

Nice work, by the way!

Humble Abode · 09-14-2006, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DecksEtc

We love pictures!

Agreed!

Looks very nice. I would love to see the pictures of it finished as well.

**Double-A** · 09-14-2006, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by jmic

Ok quick, who can tell me how many blocks it took to make that circle?

Exactly that many and not 1 more.

Tom R · 09-14-2006, 04:31 PM

Any reason not to use plywood instead of all those blocks for this application??

Seems like 1 layer of 3/4" plywood, - - 1 layer of (spaced) backer blocks, - - then another layer of 3/4" plywood would make for a much quicker 'install', no??

**Double-A** · 09-14-2006, 04:36 PM

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Any reason not to use plywood instead of all those blocks for this application??

Seems like 1 layer of 3/4" plywood, - - 1 layer of (spaced) backer blocks, - - then another layer of 3/4" plywood would make for a much quicker 'install', no??

Or is this the 'guild' way of doing it?

mdshunk · 09-14-2006, 04:38 PM

That's a lot of freaking lumber up on that ceiling. I'm sure it will be awesome when it's done, but jeeze. That's a small forest up there.

dayspring · 09-14-2006, 04:45 PM

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That's a lot of freaking lumber up on that ceiling. I'm sure it will be awesome when it's done, but jeeze. That's a small forest up there.

It is a mess a wood. I'm with Tom on this one, plywood seems to have been the more efficient method. Maybe a reason we can't see.

Love Pics

Tom R · 09-14-2006, 04:50 PM

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Or is this the 'guild' way of doing it?

Heck with guild, - - I wanna build, - - so's they can get billed . . .

mdshunk · 09-14-2006, 05:01 PM

Perhaps plywood is not a normal building material in the UK? I see that they still lath out their roofs instead of sheathing them.

ch0mpie · 09-14-2006, 05:08 PM

how are all those small blocks of wood making up the circle nailed into the ceiling rafters? They look like they are just hanging on the drywall.

dayspring · 09-14-2006, 05:12 PM

Md you may have a point.

mdshunk · 09-14-2006, 05:12 PM

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how are all those small blocks of wood making up the circle nailed into the ceiling rafters? They look like they are just hanging on the drywall.

Perhaps that ceiling is covered in the same plywood that I speculated might not exist in the UK? Doesn't seem like drywall. You can see the long seams, and they aren't tapered or mudded.

ch0mpie · 09-14-2006, 05:20 PM

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Perhaps that ceiling is covered in the same plywood that I speculated might not exist in the UK? Doesn't seem like drywall. You can see the long seams, and they aren't tapered or mudded.

maybe it's a concrete floor slab and those are marks from the forms?

**Double-A** · 09-14-2006, 05:22 PM

I think its blue board for a plaster job.

summertime · 09-15-2006, 03:57 PM

Hi, Compie and all, I was going to use ply, but needed a total thickness of 4.25 inches including the drywall, also each circle is 32ft circumference or more making well over 132ft cutting with jigsaw.
so I came up with what you can see, the ceiling is 4x2 with drywall, this is under the original ceiling, I went on top and laid 14in wide strips of waste ply in between the joists, stuck down with buiding adheshive.
then my lad used a Paslode nail gun to fire ringshank nails through the drywall int the ply, you could hang your granny off them they were that good a fix, he did it real quick on his own. dont know if i did right, allways willing to learn.

mdshunk · 09-15-2006, 04:00 PM

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...you could hang your granny off them...

My granny's been dead for a while now. I suspect that her coffin is filled with water. How many tons do you suppose that is?

gzajac · 09-21-2006, 11:21 PM

Keep those pictures coming. That the way I learned the trade.I get a lot of inspiration from them

Greg In Connecticut