Your guy is essentially right. BUT -
Sometimes the easiest way is to replace, as opposed to repair.
Tarp the floor, then walls. (Overlap.)
6 mill doors to other rooms, 3/4's, then same opposite way, so you
again,
overlap, and tape closed or tape cheap 0.5 mil over the whole affair
during
the worst of the work-day dust.
(Have him quote that & quote 1 or 2 alternatives, or compare, roughly.
If interested, then ask him to nail down the quote a lil more.)
Now, wearing masks, drop the ceiling sheet rock. Remove debris.
Replace. Can add insulation or soundproof board or 5/8ths" thk
sheetrock or etc.
If there's not a floor above, open the center and raise the ceiling
6-12".
THIS, is not hard, but there's a process, 1 before 2, etc, so do NOT
try
w/o advise, 1st, if interested. It will add 1 day to the work.
As a rule of thumb, don't ask a plaster guy to do carpenter work.
Mine can, but he's a general that came from a plaster family.
BillSF9c
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Posted by: "john stuart" johnandcarmen@bellsouth.net carmen30534
Is there any way to redo flaws on an old stippled ceiling without the
major
undertaking of an almost start-over project? (House is 57 years old)
I do not want to cover the whole thing with another layer of ceiling
sheetrock
as the ceiling is already not quite 8' from the floor.
We have one unfinished eye-sore in our old home. Stippled plaster is
cracked
along sheetrock joints and there are two places in the living room area
where
the sheetrock has cracked, broken and fallen revealing a 2" area
showing the
sheetrock underneath. A very nice and conscientious local plaster guy
came and
said the only way to do it *right* would be to remove all that is loose
and also
all that follows any cracks, repair and add new joining tape, spackling
that
area. Sand the rest of the ceiling stipple effect down on the whole
ceiling
and let him re-stipple a new coat of plaster.,
This all happened when we had a leaky roof and the seams got wet and
two areas
close to the wall got water saturated..
I'm dreading the mess, the dust, the chaos that this is going to create
for
about 10 days as all the repaired areas need to cure before the next
step can
happen.
carmen
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