Mastering Tight Gaps

Mission Impossible to Possible Mission stated the many advantages of plasterboard as a flexible building material but noted there are always details that are difficult to achieve. Ceiling upstands/bulkheads to façades are one such. Getting your hands with a screw gun into a tight gap between the façade and the board is hard enough but the taping and jointing can be impossible or, at best, so difficult that it produces poor quality. This is another detail where V-Cut profiles make life so much easier.

What tends to govern the position of bulkheads to facades is either the structural steelwork or the need to incorporate blind recesses and, often, both are features of the design. Inevitably the ceiling upstand “jumps” from one level to another, i.e. from the normal suspended ceiling height to the position of the transom in the façade. If that is large it creates a tight gap between the bulkhead and the façade in which a fixer has to somehow produce on site an acceptable Z detail by cutting boards, screwing to the sub structure, fixing corner beads then applying tape and finally filling and jointing everything. That’s not easy but then great design never is.

V-Cut Z Profiles overcome many of the problems of the traditional drywall technique. The Profile is supplied with v cuts to allow it to wrap to the desired shape. This eliminates the need for a corner bead or jointing. In addition, with our adhesive tape solution behind the v cut, the profile can be preformed to a sturdy shape before erection and for the best result it can be partly fixed to the framing before being lifted. This is a neat and fast way to produce a difficult detail to ensure it looks good. It saves cost, improves productivity and produces better quality. That tight gap created by the bulkhead abutting the façade no longer has to be so awkward.