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A bay window in the Dining Room is covered on the outside by a fancy metal roof. It started leaking recently and the leak wasn't getting any less.
In taking the damaged part of the ceiling down, we found a few oddities. Like these boards screwed to the back of the ceiling as a drywall joint and stiffener.
In fact, we found that they had used extra pieces of molding as spacers for the drywall ceiling.
Yes, thats a couple of pieces of molding attached with roofing nails to a 2x2 to hold up the ceiling. And they only used two 2x4s, on their sides no less, to secure the nine foot outside wall to the house.
That lack of support probably lead to the metal roof pulling away from the outside brick wall. We hoped that some caulk, applied form the inside, would seal it up.
Here is what we took down. All the wood trim you see was used to hold the drywall ceiling up. Ich.
Now here we've put in place four proper joists to hold the wall in and the drywall up.
The two old joists had been nailed into this cement board siding. What the siding was doing on a brick wall, I'll never know. We cut the siding to securely anchor the new joists directly to the double glu-lam beam.
Add some insulation and a vapor barrier and we were done for the day. It was starting to rain out so we couldn't get any new drywall.
Good thing we didn't get the drywall up because the caulk job got rained on and it leaked some. We added even more caulk on the inside and then to the outside too. This fix got tested with more than 1" of rain and this time it stayed dry inside. You can see here a 2x4 nailer we added to the wall to properly hold the drywall securely and at the right height. We added them all along the outside wall.
We then replaced the insulation and re-attached the plastic.
Here's Jim after the plastic got put up. Wait, did I forget to mention that all this is happening at Jim & Kim's house and that I've been helping Jim? Well, it's true.
Jim and I added plywood spacers under the glu-lam beams to properly support the edge of the old drywall and the new stuff we'll be putting up.
And here's Jim mudding up the drywall. The old ceiling had a quarter inch of plaster on it in spots. We'll have to match it. It going to take a few coats to get it built up right. Hopefully it will be ready for priming by next weekend. Until then, y'all take care.
In taking the damaged part of the ceiling down, we found a few oddities. Like these boards screwed to the back of the ceiling as a drywall joint and stiffener.
Yes, thats a couple of pieces of molding attached with roofing nails to a 2x2 to hold up the ceiling. And they only used two 2x4s, on their sides no less, to secure the nine foot outside wall to the house.
Good thing we didn't get the drywall up because the caulk job got rained on and it leaked some. We added even more caulk on the inside and then to the outside too. This fix got tested with more than 1" of rain and this time it stayed dry inside.
You can see here a 2x4 nailer we added to the wall to properly hold the drywall securely and at the right height. We added them all along the outside wall.
And here's Jim mudding up the drywall. The old ceiling had a quarter inch of plaster on it in spots. We'll have to match it. It going to take a few coats to get it built up right. Hopefully it will be ready for priming by next weekend. Until then, y'all take care.
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