We are in the middle of a few projects right now.  This post is about the dining room which will take us some time to finish.  But at least we have started.

We needed to take the ceiling down for a few reasons.

One, which Mike Holmes would hate, is that when they plumed the bathroom upstairs they cut through the joists.  One had only 3" of joist left.  So to properly repair these we had to take some of the ceiling down then realized it all had to go because it was drywall put on lathe and trying to match the depth when we re-drywalled the ceiling would be very hard.  So ceiling down.
This ceiling was so poorly screwed to the joists a 4 by 12 foot sheet fell on us and the ladders.  No one hurt.
After much research Brian sistered 2by8s to the cut joists and we should be okay.

Two we are going to have to move the pipes in order to avoid cutting into joists again.  This gives us the opportunity to completely redo the bath upstairs with very little trouble when it comes to re-plumbing since we have great access to the space.

Third there are no vents in the upstairs of the old house.  It was heated by convection or air rising through square vents in the floor.  We need to change that and again having this kind of access is going to make that easier.

We had already removed some of the ceiling last year.

The old vent.

The old stove vent.

It was fun taking the lathe down.

Never liked safety glassess and masks because my glasses always fog up.

The sistered joists and the plumbing will move so we can repair the rest.





E/B