Timeline for How to level uneven ceiling joists for sheetrock placement
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| Mar 4, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | Dotes | To expand on Austin's answer, a hybrid solution between a "drop" ceiling and drywall with furring strips is using the USG Drywall Suspension System (or similar). It's basically a dropped ceiling grid with no acoustical ceiling tile, but with drywall screwed to the grid instead. This is the commercial way we would do it to achieve a perfectly flat ceiling. In commercial, the ceiling height is 5-15 feet below the floor/roof above so we cannot use furring strips (and fire code issues beyond that). This will probably be too expensive for you, but it's an option. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 5:07 | comment | added | alemiss | I get your point. It's not as feasible as I originally thought. May be I'll try sistering with metal studs, if that doesn't sound feasible either, I will suck it up and do strapping with 1 by 3. I really didn't want losing a whole inch of ceiling height and also have crisscrossed ceiling under my sheetrock. Thanks again. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 2:23 | comment | added | aghast | As long as the strips are rock solid. Put in lots of shims, about as often as you intend to screw the drywall. | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 1:13 | comment | added | alemiss | Thanks Austin. The plywood strips will be nailed to the joists for the entire length of the joist, not just in some few locations, or islands. And since the plywood is only 1/2 inch thick, when I fasten the drywall, the screw will actually go past the plywood strip and into the joist itself. Isn't that sufficient? | |
| Mar 4, 2019 at 0:57 | history | answered | aghast | CC BY-SA 4.0 |