Well then your suggestion might be the best. BTW, if you paint the paneling a creative color it can actually look nice. Also, you could skim coat the paneling with joint compound, sand smooth and paint. You'll never know it's paneling. I've done that in a rental property and it actually looks great!
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I think you mean above the ceiling tiles, but I dunno and I don't really want > to rip the ceiling out to find out. The house was built in 1938 but I think > it must have been renovated to the studs at some point because theres no > plaster anywhere. I didn't even find sign of it when I ripped the wall out in > the bathroom. > The place I'd expect to see it is in the basement stairs. Who pulls the > plaster out of the basement stairs to put in drywall unless they did > everything in the house? > > The kitchen is fake wood paneling and I'd expect them to lay that right over > plaster but theres a hole in the wall that was drilled for a dryer vent and > theres no plaster behind the paneling... > > -Curt > > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 19:08:18 -0500 > From: dsereta...@yahoo.com > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Chimney > Message-ID: <fd6e98e7-d10b-4a03-9372-fb8287cbe...@yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > What's under the ceiling tiles? Probably plaster if your house is old. Rip > out that nasty ceiling tile and fill the gap with plaster. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Neither, we have fake wood paneling walls in the kitchen and drywall in the >> living room. The ceiling in the kitchen is those little staple on square >> things. The kitchen is texture on drywall. >> >> You can't have "combustables" within 2" of the chimney. I've been reading >> and I'm thinking to do a strip of concrete backer board with tiles 4" around >> the chimney at the ceiling flush with the staple up squares. >> >> -Curt > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com