Mystery erm ... thing. What is it?

redrighthand

So, I was tidying up in the loft and spotted this "thing" on the middle of a bit of plasterboard. I can't get any closer to it so have taken a couple of pics. Anyone got any idea what the hell it is?  My immediate thought was that some sort of insect had started building a nest right in the middle of the plasterboard. Anyone got any thoughts?! Click on it to zoom in...

http://i.imgur.com/v9vRIZD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KHdzjBB.jpg

spark240

Looks to me like someone has plastered over a hole, possibly put some joint tape in there which is whats causing those funny grid shapes.....nothing sinister I don't reckon.

DamianP

Ha!  Really?

Assuming it's a serious question.  
It looks a lot like plaster to me.

mellowsun

Wasp nest or Alien egg

ICBM

What spark240 said. Looks to me like someone has knocked a hole in the plasterboard from the other side, so when it was skimmed the plasterer put a bit of mesh over the damage on the other side and plastered over it. The squares will be from the plaster being forced through the mesh.

Unless the wall on the other side isn't plastered of course, in which case it's aliens. Don't get too close to it.

ourmaninthenorth

So, the invasion is finally underway....

Sporky

That's obviously the house's brain.

breakstuff

Hiding the glory hole from the wife eh?


Your secret's safe with me 

EricTheWeary

I can't recall the name of the product but it's the mesh stuff designed for fixing holes in plasterboard. 

scrumhalf

Is anyone in your family missing a brain?

hywelg

EricTheWeary said:

I can't recall the name of the product but it's the mesh stuff designed for fixing holes in plasterboard. 

Scrim

EricTheWeary

I think the stuff I used was a Gyprock patch but quite a lot of makes out there. 

hywelg said:

EricTheWeary said:

I can't recall the name of the product but it's the mesh stuff designed for fixing holes in plasterboard. 

Scrim

TheBlueWolf

Looks like a dodgy plastering area to me too. Assuming nobody has recently been face hugged by an alien that is.

robgilmo

hywelg said:

EricTheWeary said:

I can't recall the name of the product but it's the mesh stuff designed for fixing holes in plasterboard. 

Scrim

T'is.

redrighthand

Well that's a relief. (If not a slight disappointment it isn't something much more exciting.) Thanks for the help!

Paul_C

RandallFlagg

Paul_C said:

lol!

Funkfingers

scrumhalf said:

Is anyone in your family missing a brain?

The punchline to which is, if you cannot spot who in your family is brainless, then, it must be you.

Sassafras

Portal to another dimension?

prowla

Don't look at it too close, or it'll explode and an alien hand thing will grab your face!

Rox

hywelg said:

EricTheWeary said:

I can't recall the name of the product but it's the mesh stuff designed for fixing holes in plasterboard. 

Scrim

What do they call it down south?  I know it's scrim up north.