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Should I take down the entire ceiling? MiamiCuse 08-19-2007
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Posted by MiamiCuse on August 19, 2007, 12:44 am
My dinning room has a water stain on one side - damaged from hurricane
Wilma. I am remodeling that side, pulling up the carpet, peeling wall paper
etc...I am also pulling down that part of the ceiling (about 20 x 16). The
living room is connected and the ceiling there is ok, but a friend told me
if I were to replace the ceiling sheet rock in the dinning room, I might as
well pull down the living room too (20x20) as it would be difficult to match
the texture. The ceiling is not popcorn but has the half circular shaped
brush stroke, since it will be difficult and costly to do that to the
dinning room side, should I pull them all down and do all new ceiling sheet
rock and go with a smooth finish, instead of one half being new and smooth
and the other half being old and textured?

Thanks,

MC



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Posted by BZ on August 19, 2007, 1:39 am
MiamiCuse wrote:

> My dinning room has a water stain on one side - damaged from hurricane
> Wilma.

Is it just a cosmetic water stain, or is there structural damage to the
sheetrock? If it's just a water stain, you can paint over it with Kilz
and then repaint the ceiling.

Posted by on August 19, 2007, 9:42 am
> MiamiCuse wrote:
> > My dinning room has a water stain on one side - damaged from hurricane
> > Wilma.
>
> Is it just a cosmetic water stain, or is there structural damage to the
> sheetrock? If it's just a water stain, you can paint over it with Kilz
> and then repaint the ceiling.

Good point. And we can't see how the dining room and living room
come together. But if it comes to doing the dining room ceiling
drywall and there is no obvious seperation, then I'd do both ceilings
to make it uniform.


Posted by Grandpa on August 19, 2007, 2:58 pm
trader4@optonline.net wrote:
>> MiamiCuse wrote:
>>> My dinning room has a water stain on one side - damaged from hurricane
>>> Wilma.
>> Is it just a cosmetic water stain, or is there structural damage to the
>> sheetrock? If it's just a water stain, you can paint over it with Kilz
>> and then repaint the ceiling.
>
> Good point. And we can't see how the dining room and living room
> come together. But if it comes to doing the dining room ceiling
> drywall and there is no obvious seperation, then I'd do both ceilings
> to make it uniform.
>
IME, what does SWMBO want?
--
Grandpa

Posted by willshak on August 19, 2007, 3:45 pm
on 8/19/2007 2:58 PM Grandpa said the following:
> trader4@optonline.net wrote:
>>> MiamiCuse wrote:
>>>> My dinning room has a water stain on one side - damaged from hurricane
>>>> Wilma.
>>> Is it just a cosmetic water stain, or is there structural damage to the
>>> sheetrock? If it's just a water stain, you can paint over it with Kilz
>>> and then repaint the ceiling.
>>
>> Good point. And we can't see how the dining room and living room
>> come together. But if it comes to doing the dining room ceiling
>> drywall and there is no obvious seperation, then I'd do both ceilings
>> to make it uniform.
>>
> IME, what does SWMBO want?

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