Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Ceiling cornices or not? 26Oct 12, 2010 11:47 pm Follow Feggle viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34992 Follow lilfeggle viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37149 Asbestosis Sux! Don't breath in Asbestos Re: Ceiling cornices or not? 27Oct 13, 2010 8:13 pm Cornice fan here. We live in a period home with a modern extension (built before we bought the house). I always thought there was something strange and unfinished feeling about the new part of the house, then I realised it's because there is no cornice (9' ceilings), I don't think I've ever lived in a house without cornices before. Re: Ceiling cornices or not? 28Jul 14, 2019 2:52 pm They both traditional serve a purpose. If you have an older home like my parents 100 plus years old the walls are stop short before the cornices and skirting boards which are lot taller then modern versions. As it is a timber house this allows for movement of the timber and the stumps underneath the house. Having worked as a painter I can tell you, there is certainly more damage in the form of wear and tear done to walls in houses without skirting boards. Mops, brooms, vacuums, furniture ect. Having worked patching the bottom of walls in many homes without skirting boards I would never own a house without them. In modern houses cornices normally serve the same purpose as they traditionally did as most builders install them as standard so that if the wall is not perfectly flush is doesn't matter as they will be covered. Squaring the ceiling and the wall perfectly can be difficult especially as no house is ever completely straight. Unless the room is for storage then it's non compliant BCA V2 2019 S3 P3.8 You have 2 options 1. The builder deconstructs the section and rebuilds as per plan /… 7 10665 How do you remove one of these ceiling air con vents? And is it possible to disconnect the duct joined to the vent from inside the house, without going into the roof cavity? 0 5907 There is water getting into the ceiling, I expected to find some holes in the corrugated roof but there weren't any so I suspect that the roof drip edge is letting water… 0 2448 |