The house is a two story and is in metro boston ma area.
Radiant ceiling heat cracks.
Low temperature ceiling heating can be used in rooms with a height of between 2 5 and 3 5 meters.
It is hot water radiant heat and it is still in use they say it provides great heat.
Radiant ceiling heat was real popular here in the 1970s there were 3 mehtods of installation.
Ceiling radiant heat is an interesting historical anomaly.
Mesh will not help this problem as it does nothing the crack will travel through the mesh to the surface.
But unless you re really intent on period authenticity bus s suggestion is probably the right one install something more maintainable and more efficient.
For rooms with a height of over 3 5 meters a higher flow temperature is required.
Here the radiant heat can unfold in the best possible way with flow temperatures of between 26 and 40 c.
1 ceiling and walls are hung and finished electricians install ceiling cables after cables are installed 2 coats of a plaster product called radex is applied over the cables then a texture is applied.
Btw i had something similar many years ago 2x4 radiant panels that dropped into my rec room s drop ceiling grid.
Radiant ceiling heat is a style of heating that is significantly different from the radiators or forced air ducts that you may be used to.
Where ceiling heating makes sense.
I don t know if this is an installation problem or this is common with this heat but it is a mess.
Cracks in radiant heat ceiling i have ceiling radiant and the ceiling sheetrock in some rooms cracked and then completely let go and dropped.
The h o s just want to address the cracking if they wanted to do more i would redo all the ceilings.
Plus you loose the heat in that room.
In the older form electric heating elements are sandwiched between a layer of drywall and a layer of plaster.