After playing a few rounds at the Quaker Ridge Golf Club or hiking the Greenburgh Nature Center, you don’t want to waste your time online, searching “how to repair a plaster ceiling.” You have better things to do with your free time than trying to fix cracks and sagging areas of stucco, and these repairs are also best left to a trained expert!
Plaster ceiling crack repair begins behind that broken area of stucco, where the plaster should be attached to structural beams. A specialty type of mesh tape may also need to be added over the cracked area, to strengthen the stucco and keep fresh plaster in place. Water-stained plaster may need to be removed, and the damaged area widened, to provide a stable base for new stucco.
As with repairing plaster crown molding, casts may be taken of undamaged areas of a ceiling so that decorative details carved into the plaster can be recreated. Recreating these designs takes time, patience, and skill.