Plain plasterboard ceilings for a room or a whole property — level, flat and cured before the painter.
A false ceiling in Malta hangs from the concrete slab on a metal grid — main channel, furring channel, hangers — with the board screwed up, the joints taped and filled, and the whole thing skimmed. It hides the services, gives the electrician somewhere to put the lights, and is where the insulation goes under a roof. It is also the trade most often done fast and unlevel, which is why we check every ceiling flat under a raking light before the painter arrives.
The one rule to check before dropping a ceiling: the sanitary regulations require 2.60 m clear height in a habitable room and 2.40 m in a non-habitable one, and a drop ceiling may take up to 30% of the ceiling area with at least 2.0 m under it. We measure that at the site visit.
For a whole property the calculator uses turnkeymalta.com's shell-form line for gypsum and plastering, per square metre of floor area by specification. No Maltese contractor publishes an installed rate for a single ceiling, so one room is quoted after measuring; the board itself is €6.82 to €15.78 a sheet at Maltese suppliers, about €4.40 per square metre.
| Line | Basic | Luxury | Super Luxury | Ultimate Designer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gypsum & plastering | €34/m² | €42/m² | €54/m² | €72/m² |
Per square metre of internal floor area. A villa or house carries a ×1.15 uplift for the longer runs and the external work. These are the same figures the calculator uses, because there is only one rate card — and they are the lines turnkeymalta.com uses for the same trade inside a whole-property budget.
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You deal with us, not with the trade. We measure, we quote a fixed price, we bring in a gypsum contractor from the CheckYourTraders-verified network, and we stand behind the work. One point of contact, one contract, one invoice.
Plain plasterboard ceilings for a room or a whole property — level, flat and cured before the painter.
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