Big mess
Written by julio on July 27th, 2004
This was the last of the plaster to come out of the kitchen. While gutting a room is fun for the first 5 or 10 minutes, it always turns into a horrible, time-consuming project. What made this particularly bad was the 40 year old blown-in insulation sitting above the kitchen ceiling. Now that I have been through this a few times, I now realize that the best thing to do is to just leave the ceiling and insulation alone and to go over the whole thing with drywall. Losing 1/2″ of height is a fair trade for less mess and not having to reinsulate…