Posted: 8/25/2009 3:10:00 PM EDT
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The ceiling in one of the bedrooms has water damage and I need to replace/patch it. The room is 12 feet wide and poking my head through the hole, I was surprised to find that there is one support running down the center of the room and no cross pieces. What I mean is that there appers to be 12' long sheets of sheetrock that are anchored at each end and in the center with no supports at teh seams between the sheets. There's about a 15" space between the sheet rock and the joists of the floor above and nothing between the floor joists and the sheet rock. No lights, the only duct is already between the joists, etc.
With that in mind, is there any reason I couldn't tear out the entire existing ceiling and anchor new sheet rock directly to the joists of the floor above, giving me a taller ceiling in that room? |
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To give us a better idea of what is going on, could you post pictures? Yeah, I'll try to get some tomorrow. Quoted:
Where do you live? (the guess is Arl, old town) Outside Manassas near the battlefield, actually. The main issue I can see is reduced sound insulation between the floors, but I'm not too worried about that and can add other dampening to compensate. |
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If you can easily add an extra 15" of height to your ceiling...
I can't imagine why it would be built like that in the first place. I've seen what you are saying in two duplexes in Arlington (on the same street), but it was to allow ventilation and other utilities and it wasn't done without additional blocking/bracing (like in your description). |