Phil's living room
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:47 pm
I had a week off finally ! yeaaay..
my living room had all painted trim. I removed it and took all the paint off.
the ceiling had one foot square ceiling tiles. I was about to drywall over them but found they were mounted on metal tracks. I think they are asbestos. So I removed all the tiles and the metal tracks to expose the old plaster ceiling.
I had a friend help. he has lots of experience drywalling. I had 8 foot sheets but he convinced me we'd be better to use 12 foot sheets so we did. less ceiling joints to fill this way. it's 21 feet long so we did it in four sheets plus a foot or so along the wall on the right.
I moved most of the joints I need to have away from the windows so they won't show. this would have been hard except he had a really good lifting jig. so he helped me get the new ceiling up. some at the edge is blue , it's just bathroom drywall and won't matter once it's finished. there is also an alcove by the front door so I did the ceiling in there too.
the wall to the front of the house and the wall to the left of that are outside walls. i get lots of traffic and there was never any insulation so Im going to open those walls to insulate. You can see the sheets of closed cell foam Im using. it' sgood stuff and should help with the sound, especially after I get storms. I started taking down the lath around the windows. I removed the top edge of the lath on the extrerior walls so my ceiling drywall can run overtop the drywall on the walls. Since Ill laminate over the plaster for the interior walls I didn't need to worry about removing the top edge on that side.
The inside walls are all plaster and so Ill just laminate new drywall over the plaster on those walls. all the plaster has cracks and wallpaper overtop and the wallpaper is painted. I thought of restoring the plaster but in my opinion this is my best route. I did one room by restoring the plaster and it's fine but you really can't see a difference of you compoare that room so Im not getting caught in the fuss about restoring original plaster this time around. After I get insulation in and walls done then I can tape and fill and finish it as normal. after Im done all the walls and ceilings Ill sand the floors and get the old fir flooring back. after that Ill install all the casings and baseboards. Still a ton of work to do , and only so many holidays. but it's coming !! Just getting it empty took three days. I'm on my way now.
Phil
my living room had all painted trim. I removed it and took all the paint off.
the ceiling had one foot square ceiling tiles. I was about to drywall over them but found they were mounted on metal tracks. I think they are asbestos. So I removed all the tiles and the metal tracks to expose the old plaster ceiling.
I had a friend help. he has lots of experience drywalling. I had 8 foot sheets but he convinced me we'd be better to use 12 foot sheets so we did. less ceiling joints to fill this way. it's 21 feet long so we did it in four sheets plus a foot or so along the wall on the right.
I moved most of the joints I need to have away from the windows so they won't show. this would have been hard except he had a really good lifting jig. so he helped me get the new ceiling up. some at the edge is blue , it's just bathroom drywall and won't matter once it's finished. there is also an alcove by the front door so I did the ceiling in there too.
the wall to the front of the house and the wall to the left of that are outside walls. i get lots of traffic and there was never any insulation so Im going to open those walls to insulate. You can see the sheets of closed cell foam Im using. it' sgood stuff and should help with the sound, especially after I get storms. I started taking down the lath around the windows. I removed the top edge of the lath on the extrerior walls so my ceiling drywall can run overtop the drywall on the walls. Since Ill laminate over the plaster for the interior walls I didn't need to worry about removing the top edge on that side.
The inside walls are all plaster and so Ill just laminate new drywall over the plaster on those walls. all the plaster has cracks and wallpaper overtop and the wallpaper is painted. I thought of restoring the plaster but in my opinion this is my best route. I did one room by restoring the plaster and it's fine but you really can't see a difference of you compoare that room so Im not getting caught in the fuss about restoring original plaster this time around. After I get insulation in and walls done then I can tape and fill and finish it as normal. after Im done all the walls and ceilings Ill sand the floors and get the old fir flooring back. after that Ill install all the casings and baseboards. Still a ton of work to do , and only so many holidays. but it's coming !! Just getting it empty took three days. I'm on my way now.
Phil