Ceiling Repairs in Booragoon

Booragoon grew up around the Garden City shopping centre through the late 1960s and 1970s. The streets around Riseley Street and Marmion Street are mostly single-storey brick-and-tile homes from that era, many on their original quarter-acre blocks, with the classic layout of a front lounge, a hallway of bedrooms and a later family-room extension at the back. The original rooms have plasterglass ceilings with cove cornice; the extensions, depending on when they were done, might be plasterglass, early plasterboard or something in between.

The suburb has had a wave of renovations rather than rebuilds. Owners have opened up kitchens into dining rooms, removed walls and added skylights, which means ceilings have been cut, patched and joined to new sections. Those junctions between old and new ceiling are where cracks show up, because the two materials move differently and were fixed in different ways.

There is also a growing number of two-storey rebuilds and a handful of apartment buildings near the shopping precinct, all with plasterboard ceilings. Those come with the usual new-build issues of popped screws and join cracks rather than anything dramatic.