Hello! I've become the owner of a 1 1/2 story 70s house whose upper floor hasn't been renovated in quite a while. Today, the upper floor features a smaller bedroom & closet as well as a bathroom, while the remaining area is one large open living room. We don't use that space and plan to convert it into a bedroom with a walk-in closet and a seating area outside, which means we'll be putting up 2 interior walls.
It will be a complete renovation of all surfaces, new floors, moldings, etc. But what we most want to avoid is tearing down the ceiling. There's currently some sort of porous board as the ceiling, I suspect it's gypsum with furring strips behind. My hope is to attach the ceiling joist with some type of adhesive and then try to hit the furring strip behind with screws. Is it possible to do it that way, or do you have tips on better alternative solutions?
I attach some pictures of how it looks today and how it's intended to be in the end.
Best regards
It will be a complete renovation of all surfaces, new floors, moldings, etc. But what we most want to avoid is tearing down the ceiling. There's currently some sort of porous board as the ceiling, I suspect it's gypsum with furring strips behind. My hope is to attach the ceiling joist with some type of adhesive and then try to hit the furring strip behind with screws. Is it possible to do it that way, or do you have tips on better alternative solutions?
I attach some pictures of how it looks today and how it's intended to be in the end.
Best regards
It is absolutely possible, adhesive is unnecessary if you find the glesen. You need to cut the upright studs so that they press against the ceiling and simultaneously push down on the floor. But how do you plan to run the electrical wiring? You should have switches on the walls you raise.
Well then. There might be a problem hitting the furring on the ceiling stud that extends as an extension from the bathroom wall. It runs in the same lengthwise direction as the furring.T Tompafix said:
I have an electrician in the family who will take care of the electricity, planning to ground the outlets on the upper floor at the same time since it's not done yet. But the plan is to have light switches by the doors and at least one outlet in each room, by the bed, in the closet for the steamer, where the TV will be, etc.
The roof trusses should be placed at cc 1200. So you should be able to attach the rule to them. You can probably access the space from the attic if you want to add something more to screw into. You will likely need to route the electricity that way if you don't want to tear down the ceiling.