Owning your own home

You are reading a single comment by @stevo_com and its replies. Click here to read the full conversation.

•

jellybaby

I have asbestos sheets on the ceiling of my garage. The garage is part of the house, above it is the main bathroom.

After many years of looking the other way I'm probably going to pay a dude to take away the asbestos. Apparently the whole garage is going to get a vacuum as part of the process which will upset a lot of spiders. I'll be left with exposed joists and probably a bunch of cables hanging down.

What should I replace the panels with? I don't really want a finished, plastered ceiling but I could put plasterboard up. Is there something better?

•

stevo_com in reply to @jellybaby

How about OSB or Ply? That way in future you can screw fixings straight into it for hanging stuff without having to locate joists (avoiding cables obvs, and nothing too heavy, just more than you could put straight into plasterboard). Might be easier to raise than plasterboard too.

•

jellybaby in reply to @stevo_com

I'm not sure I'm likely to screw more than a light to it but it does make sense. OSB looks a bit cheaper.

Some digging suggests it should have 30 minutes of fire resistance. It seems there are fire retardant versions of both.

About

Avatar for stevo_com @stevo_com started