Ceiling Repairs in Kwinana
Kwinana was built for the refinery workforce in the 1950s and 1960s, and a lot of that original housing is still standing with its original ceilings. Add the newer estates of Bertram, Wellard and Wandi and you have a mix of fibrous plaster that is sixty years old and plasterboard that is six. We repair and replace ceilings across the City of Kwinana.
Ceilings in Kwinana homes
Medina, Calista and Orelia were laid out as planned worker suburbs when the industrial strip went in, and the houses from that era are modest brick or fibro homes with hardwood frames, tile or metal roofs and fibrous plaster ceilings with a simple cove cornice. Many have been rentals for decades, and the ceilings have had a hard life: multiple tenancies, minor leaks left for years, and the occasional DIY patch that has made things worse.
Through the 1970s and 1980s the suburb filled in with brick-and-tile homes, and from the 2000s onward Bertram, Wellard, Wandi and Casuarina brought new estates with plasterboard ceilings over open-plan living areas. The newer homes have the same issues we see across the southern corridor: join cracks, popped screws and aircon condensate stains.
The coastal strip is only a couple of kilometres west, so the sea breeze and salt reach the roof spaces here. Metal roofs on the older homes corrode at the laps and screws, and the wire ties behind fibrous plaster sheets rust through, which is a particular reason ceilings in Medina and Calista let go.
Common ceiling problems in Kwinana
Sixty-year-old fibrous plaster ceilings sagging
The original ceilings in Medina, Calista and Orelia are at the end of their strapping life. A sheet that has dropped along one side, with a crack running parallel to the wall, is the typical call. If the plaster is sound we re-strap and re-fix it; if it has gone soft or broken, we replace the room.
Metal roof leaks staining ceilings
Corroded roof screws and lifted laps on older tin roofs let water in during winter fronts off the ocean. The stain spreads, the plaster softens and eventually bows. We repair or replace the affected section once the roof has been sealed, and we can tell you from the roof space roughly where the water is getting in.
Rental ceilings that have been patched before
A lot of Kwinana ceilings carry old repairs: a square of plasterboard screwed over a hole, a cornice glued back with the wrong adhesive, a crack painted over a dozen times. We take those back to sound material and do the repair once, properly, so the property manager is not calling again next winter.
New estate join cracks in Bertram and Wellard
Houses in the newer estates are settling, and the sheet joins in long living-room ceilings open as they do. We re-tape and re-set them with a reinforced join so the crack does not come back after the next hot summer.
Kwinana has a high proportion of rental and investment property, including older state-housing stock now in private hands. We work with property managers on photographed scopes and written quotes, and we coordinate tenant access directly when asked.
Ceiling services we bring to Kwinana
Sagging Ceiling Repair
Dropped plaster ceilings re-fixed and pulled back flat
Most requested herePlasterglass & Plaster Ceiling Repairs
Fibrous plaster ceilings in older Perth homes re-fixed, patched or replaced
Most requested hereWater-Damaged Ceiling Repair
Stained, bowed and soft ceilings repaired after leaks
Most requested hereCeiling Replacement
Old or ruined ceilings taken down and replaced with new plasterboard
Get a quote in Kwinana
Tell us what the ceiling is doing and where you are. We will call you back to talk it through and arrange a time to look at it.
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Kwinana ceiling questions
The ceiling in my Medina rental has dropped. Can it be fixed without replacing it?
Do you cover Bertram, Wellard and Wandi?
My tin roof leaks every winter and the ceiling is stained. Who do I call first?
Can you work on ceilings in commercial units in the Kwinana industrial area?
Ceiling trouble in Kwinana?
Describe it over the phone and we will tell you whether it needs looking at this week or can wait. Perth-wide, Monday to Friday.