Ceiling Repairs in Rockingham

Rockingham grew as a holiday town before it was a suburb, and the housing still shows it. Along the foreshore and through Safety Bay and Shoalwater there are 1960s and 1970s brick-and-tile homes and fibro beach shacks, some original and some extended several times, with fibrous plaster ceilings in the older rooms and whatever was available in the extensions. Cooloongup and Hillman inland are 1970s and 1980s brick and tile, a lot of it originally state housing.

From the 1990s onward Warnbro, Port Kennedy, Secret Harbour and Baldivis brought large estates of double-brick homes with plasterboard ceilings, and the city centre has gained apartment buildings and townhouses with the usual strata plasterboard. The result is a spread of ceiling types across a few kilometres, and each has its own way of failing.

What ties them together is the coast. Metal fixings corrode faster here than almost anywhere else in Perth. Storms drive rain under ridge caps and into tile roofs from angles that inland homes never see. And the humidity means a leak that would dry out in Armadale sits wet in Rockingham and grows mould on the plaster.