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Sigarms
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Sincere thanks for the responses Eddie and PH on the ceiling tiles. Believe me, we know that is going to be a must in the kitchen to be replaced.
Earlier this year, we changed out about 128 ceiling tiles in the basement. Original tiles were those "acoustic holy tiles" type that you see in the kitchen. We went with the smooth "finished looked" type tiles, and honestly dislike them almost as much, because even though they're smooth, and we were hoping it would give us a more finished looked, it seems like once you touch them (even with gloves on) they get a slight smear on the finish side of the tile. Tried wiping them down to no avail. Perhaps if the basement had no exterior lighting it wouldn't stick out, but it is a walk out basement with large amount of window space on the exterior side, and when you walk downstairs during the day, the exterior lightly just makes any little scuff mark stick out like a sore thumb to us.
Perhaps if we didn't have to cut the tiles for lights or registers for the ductwork, but found it impossible not to put your hands on the tiles to do that work.
Funny enough, with the new ceiling tiles in the basement, go down when it's dark outside and only turn on the drop canned interior lighting, you see nothing per "scuff marks".
Honestly, just another reason why when we sell, we're just going to go with a single story house or at worst, one with a basement only.
HVAC system on the 3rd floor for the upstairs living sleeping areas, and HVAC systems in the basement for the basement and first floor means there are two levels of mechanicals instead of just one.
The guy who did our deck end of last year (which we really like) suggested finishing off the ceiling in the kitchen with new drop lights. I'd like to remove all the tiles though before we make that decision to see exactly what is everything above those tiles in the kitchen. I'd never do something like that in the basement because when I replaced that attic HVAC system, the line set was run down to the basement above the ceiling tiles out through the sidewall. I also had to remove all the dryer vent pipe about 10 years ago. Pain in the butt with ceiling tiles, but at least you had access to what you needed to do.
Wife originally pointed out the PVC type ceiling tiles and looked at them at Lowes, but needing 128 2'x4' ceiling tiles and the PVC type costing at least 3-5 times as much for the same size tile.
Eddie, I will most likely take your suggestion on painting the cabinets. My wife and I would NEVER think like that because it's something we'd never do ourselves, but one thing that will be done is the interior will be repainted entirely in a more neutral color, and in the grand scheme of things, you line of reasoning is making more sense to me.
Besides that, with a BUTTLOAD of dogs over two decades living in the house (particularly in our younger years when we fostered for the local humane society), everything needs to be repainted inside anyways LOL
Earlier this year, we changed out about 128 ceiling tiles in the basement. Original tiles were those "acoustic holy tiles" type that you see in the kitchen. We went with the smooth "finished looked" type tiles, and honestly dislike them almost as much, because even though they're smooth, and we were hoping it would give us a more finished looked, it seems like once you touch them (even with gloves on) they get a slight smear on the finish side of the tile. Tried wiping them down to no avail. Perhaps if the basement had no exterior lighting it wouldn't stick out, but it is a walk out basement with large amount of window space on the exterior side, and when you walk downstairs during the day, the exterior lightly just makes any little scuff mark stick out like a sore thumb to us.
Perhaps if we didn't have to cut the tiles for lights or registers for the ductwork, but found it impossible not to put your hands on the tiles to do that work.
Funny enough, with the new ceiling tiles in the basement, go down when it's dark outside and only turn on the drop canned interior lighting, you see nothing per "scuff marks".
Honestly, just another reason why when we sell, we're just going to go with a single story house or at worst, one with a basement only.
HVAC system on the 3rd floor for the upstairs living sleeping areas, and HVAC systems in the basement for the basement and first floor means there are two levels of mechanicals instead of just one.
The guy who did our deck end of last year (which we really like) suggested finishing off the ceiling in the kitchen with new drop lights. I'd like to remove all the tiles though before we make that decision to see exactly what is everything above those tiles in the kitchen. I'd never do something like that in the basement because when I replaced that attic HVAC system, the line set was run down to the basement above the ceiling tiles out through the sidewall. I also had to remove all the dryer vent pipe about 10 years ago. Pain in the butt with ceiling tiles, but at least you had access to what you needed to do.
Wife originally pointed out the PVC type ceiling tiles and looked at them at Lowes, but needing 128 2'x4' ceiling tiles and the PVC type costing at least 3-5 times as much for the same size tile.
Eddie, I will most likely take your suggestion on painting the cabinets. My wife and I would NEVER think like that because it's something we'd never do ourselves, but one thing that will be done is the interior will be repainted entirely in a more neutral color, and in the grand scheme of things, you line of reasoning is making more sense to me.
Besides that, with a BUTTLOAD of dogs over two decades living in the house (particularly in our younger years when we fostered for the local humane society), everything needs to be repainted inside anyways LOL
