Ceiling Repairs in Perth CBD

The Perth CBD and its fringes mix three very different kinds of building. There are the apartment towers that went up along Adelaide Terrace, the Hay Street east end and around Elizabeth Quay, mostly with plasterboard ceilings on steel furring channel fixed to concrete slabs. There are the older commercial and warehouse buildings around King Street, Northbridge and the west end, some of them converted to residential, with high ceilings, original pressed metal or fibrous plaster in places, and decades of services run through the ceiling space. And there are the tenanted office floors, which are almost all suspended grid with mineral fibre tiles and everything from air conditioning to data cabling living above them.

Water is the common thread in the city. A burst flexi hose or an overflowing shower in the apartment above arrives in your ceiling first, and because slabs do not drain the way a pitched tile roof does, the water tends to pool and track along the furring channel before it finds a way through. Office ceilings suffer from chilled water and condensate leaks off air conditioning units, and from the grid itself being disturbed every time another contractor needs to get above it.

Access is the other thing that shapes CBD ceiling work. Loading bays, lift bookings, building manager sign-off, after-hours windows for office floors, and parking that is never where you want it. We plan for all of it before we quote so the job runs in the window the building gives us.