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!

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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
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> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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
> 
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