Tom Bushelman, post: 456578, member: 1320 wrote: I sort of did both in the last couple of years. First house I built had shorter peaks (14') with old tin on the ceiling and I used old vertical barn siding in the gable ends and it looked great.
This time around, the peak is a hair over 16' with knotty pine on the ceiling. I was going to go with barn siding again but decided there was just too much wood. I put in sheetrock and am very happy with the result. Remember that vertical stripes are slimming (think making a room look taller) and horizontal stripes are widening.
Pics?
James Fleming, post: 456580, member: 136 wrote: I'd go with sheetrock because I don't like two different materials/textures on the same plane. But that's just me
Yeah, that's why I havent made up my mind. With sheetrock the loft would appear more tucked away. But the shiplap would make looking at the upper half more fluid.
Adam, post: 456592, member: 8900 wrote: I went thru some struggle with this. I put up all those boards pretty much myself with a little help now and then. It is a hell of a lot easier to put them up like I did alone. I plan on going over the seams with 1x4 trim.
I have been watching This Old House for years, Tom Silva is always talking about how to stagger the boards, and gets great tips on how to do it.
Some people love the stagger look, others don't like stagger and prefer equal board lengths.
Are you going to do surround sound speakers? If so now is the best time to run the speaker wire.
Adam, post: 456494, member: 8900 wrote: Would you put shiplap or sheetrock on the two open spaces each side of the loft? Current plan is for sheetrock. What y'all say?
Jesus ship lap has been done to death! That slightly Asian woman from Waco, Texas will not quit with it. So, I'm gonna vote sheetrock.
Scott Ellis, post: 456605, member: 7154 wrote: Are you going to do surround sound speakers? If so now is the best time to run the speaker wire.
AND - Power over Ethernet (PoE) cable. 😎
I have seen so much stinky moldy sheetrock recently, I recommend against it for anything.
Kris Morgan, post: 456616, member: 29 wrote: Jesus ship lap has been done to death! That slightly Asian woman from Waco, Texas will not quit with it. So, I'm gonna vote sheetrock.
Yea, but at least she's kinda cute! 😀
I'd do the sheetrock, personally. I do agree with the backing for any potentially heavy objects that may be hung on the wall in the future.
I just bought a house that needs some work, and I wish my wife would stop watching all these TV shows that give her these expensive ideas.
Tommy Young, post: 456703, member: 703 wrote: I just bought a house that needs some work, and I wish my wife would stop watching all these TV shows that give her these expensive ideas.
IKR?
My was built in 1955. The previous owner did some pretty aggravating stuff like 3 layers of wallpaper and wallpaper glued right to bare drywall, no paint, primer, skim coat, or texture. It was on there. I hired a painter to deal with that.
Now I'm removing 3 layers of wallpaper from the breakfast nook and kitchen. It's on drywall painted with yellow enamel. Top layer is canvas, rips right off, middle layer is paper, it steams off fairly easily. The bottom layer is really stuck on there, they used very sticky glue. It yields to a lot of steam. I could almost duct tape the steamer to the wall and go have a beer. The bottom layer is RED, looks like a murder happened in there LOL.
He has installed indoor-outdoor carpet glued down in there. All these years I assumed it was because he didn't want to deal with the 9x9 floor tiles (asbestos) under there. Today I pulled some back and it's just sheet vinyl on plywood GAWD, lazy a-- sob string of swear words you couldn't be bothered to remove vinyl floor?
Old houses are so much fun! 🙂
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Here's what I ended up doing folks.
Looks Nice. That's the exact thing I did when I built my house. It was kind of a pain finishing the sheetrock up that high though.
There is a deep hole in hell where all the really bad people go. The ceiling in that hole is acres upon acres of sheetrock to be mudded and sanded. ??ÿ
There is a deep hole in hell where all the really bad people go. The ceiling in that hole is acres upon acres of sheetrock to be mudded and sanded. ??ÿ
I believe that is why the Pope contracted Michelangelo to do the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; it was merely?ÿcheaper and much easier than sheetrock.?ÿ
I agree that the result was the right solution. If this house were in our climate, those exposed trusses would be a haven for happy spiders.?ÿ
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I hadn't given any thought to that. I will get SWMBO'd an extension for her dust mop!
Put that pint-sized survey gal on the job. ?ÿShe can kill them with your high-dollar survey laser.
