Planning to redo the surface in a bedroom where there is currently tensioned paper as the ceiling. It's originally painted with glue paint and then overpainted with acrylic (or possibly alkyd) back in the days. Not a good idea to try repainting another layer then. It's also cracked and peeling in some areas. Under the paper is a primitive version of tongue and groove pine paneling.
I would prefer to replace it with some form of sheet material, where drywall is obviously the most straightforward, mainly because I know how to proceed. Considering a thin board (6 mm) since the paneling is likely not super even. I've also seen some have installed Masonite or plywood as an interior ceiling. The question is if the house's technical properties might be affected in any way by drywall that I'm not considering here and now? I've noted that some experience changed acoustics, but this is a bedroom with a bed, curtains, and rugs, so I'm not placing much importance on that issue. I understand that it's not historically correct and can live with that.
I tore the tension paper in the entire living room and painted the boards underneath. This is how it turned out:
Everything is a matter of taste depending on one's style and preferences, but we are satisfied.
In some rooms, I have torn down the stretched ceilings where they were bad and screwed up regular 13mm plasterboards. It can be tricky to ensure that the joints don't crack over time. In some rooms, I have succeeded, in some rooms less well, but nothing catastrophic. If I were to redo it today, I have more experience and it would reduce the risk of cracks, like how to screw, where to place the joints, what to "reinforce" with, etc. Technically, I see no problems.
In the large room at home, there is also stretched paper on the ceiling and I have taken part of it down. Directly underneath, there is an additional layer of paper, it seems, similar to the outer layer, but thinner and in the same white shade. Was that how it was done when they installed stretched paper in the past?
The entire 34 sqm room consisted of paper. Walls of Tretex with wallpaper, floors with two layers of soft boards with glued carpet, which creaked under the slightest weight and showed marks from heavy furniture, and then the stretched paper. I have torn out both the Tretex walls (logs directly behind with small pieces of Masonite or other material to straighten the walls) and the floorboards (nice wooden floor underneath) and now I have also tackled the ceiling, which I wasn’t planning to do anything about.
It will probably be super expensive to restore the room. So why am I tearing it down? Curiosity, a newfound interest in DIY home projects, and dissatisfaction with the solutions that were used 50-60 years ago. Then I feel guilty for not being able to resist the urge to investigate the condition of things.
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