Richard
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I'm working in Florida right now so I'm simply working as a middleman between my wife & keyboard...
Scenario: Seems my sister in law did some changes in her house (her brother who lives out of state did the work when he was living in the area)
House built perhaps in the 60's (just guessing)
In the kitchen, they removed all the ceiling drywall. I don't know what was above the drywall but from what I understand they then raised the ceiling level and essentially put new drywall on the roof itself, as in, mounted the drywall to the underside of the roof. (I asked for pictures becuase I'm sitting here wondering what happened to the horizontal joists that might have been in the ceiling)
I don't even know if that part is important to the question.
Seems they took pink insulation, mounted it directly to the underside of the plywood that makes the roof. They then mounted the drywall on the other side of the insulation.
Seems there is no venting space in there and now she's had some condensation form and a portion (all?) of her drywall needs to be replaced on her ceiling.
It's possible that it's a leak for all I know.
I asked her if someone could take a picture of the ceiling and perhaps... a before picture and/or a picture with some drywall removed (if they exist) to at least put some visuals into the conversation. No luck so far.
So the upshot is, if you have your roofing plywood with insulation butted up agasint it and your drywall butted up against the insulation, is it reasonable that you've created a problem and if so, would they have been better off using something like a foam-board / hard insulation instead of the pink Owens Corning style?
Given how the wife described it, I'm presuming to fix it right, the ceiling will have to be pulled down, reinsulate and reinstall new drywall.
Thoughts given the minimal details?
Scenario: Seems my sister in law did some changes in her house (her brother who lives out of state did the work when he was living in the area)
House built perhaps in the 60's (just guessing)
In the kitchen, they removed all the ceiling drywall. I don't know what was above the drywall but from what I understand they then raised the ceiling level and essentially put new drywall on the roof itself, as in, mounted the drywall to the underside of the roof. (I asked for pictures becuase I'm sitting here wondering what happened to the horizontal joists that might have been in the ceiling)
I don't even know if that part is important to the question.
Seems they took pink insulation, mounted it directly to the underside of the plywood that makes the roof. They then mounted the drywall on the other side of the insulation.
Seems there is no venting space in there and now she's had some condensation form and a portion (all?) of her drywall needs to be replaced on her ceiling.
It's possible that it's a leak for all I know.
I asked her if someone could take a picture of the ceiling and perhaps... a before picture and/or a picture with some drywall removed (if they exist) to at least put some visuals into the conversation. No luck so far.
So the upshot is, if you have your roofing plywood with insulation butted up agasint it and your drywall butted up against the insulation, is it reasonable that you've created a problem and if so, would they have been better off using something like a foam-board / hard insulation instead of the pink Owens Corning style?
Given how the wife described it, I'm presuming to fix it right, the ceiling will have to be pulled down, reinsulate and reinstall new drywall.
Thoughts given the minimal details?