Plaster Ceiling Repair Screws

A drywall screw goes through the washer and is driven into the wood lath behind the plaster.

Plaster ceiling repair screws.

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. 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. 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.

Before doing any plaster ceiling repair make sure to setup drop clothes and wear eye protection. Cover with joint compound and father out 18. 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. Scrape away any loose veneer.

For areas where the washers don t hold or the plaster is very damaged cut out the plaster and create a patch using drywall. 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. You thread the drywall screw through a plaster washer and then drive it through the plaster and into the ceiling joists wall studs or wood lath. How to fix screws in ceiling plaster.

Screw plaster washers to ceiling along and around cracked area. Secure the patch with 1 5 8 drywall screws. 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. Or possibly the screws are too.

Use trowel to spread joint compound onto ceiling covering the repaired area. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva explains how to repair a plaster ceiling. Be sure to drive screws into wood lath above. Use a drywall screw with a plaster washer to re secure the damaged sections of plaster to the lathe.

Screws save the time of fitting wooden shores and keep the work area clear but they can damage the plaster. 1 one inch plaster repair washers ceiling buttons 300 pieces. 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. I propped the ceiling sheet up from underneath using some planks of wood for props.

Plaster washers are about the size of a quarter and cost pennies. Seemed to work ok and pretty simple.