What's under the ceiling tiles? Probably plaster if your house is old. Rip out that nasty ceiling tile and fill the gap with plaster.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Neither, we have fake wood paneling walls in the kitchen and drywall in the > living room. The ceiling in the kitchen is those little staple on square > things. The kitchen is texture on drywall. > > You can't have "combustables" within 2" of the chimney. I've been reading and > I'm thinking to do a strip of concrete backer board with tiles 4" around the > chimney at the ceiling flush with the staple up squares. > > -Curt > > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:30:34 -0500 > From: dsereta...@yahoo.com > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Chimney > Message-ID: <fba92841-2b65-4f02-8767-5e38d3307...@yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > An air gap for what? I know that wood framing isn't supposed to touch the > chimney but why couldn't you stuff the gap with plaster of Paris? Do you have > plaster walls and ceilings? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 8, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> Okay keepers of all knowledge try this one. >> The chimney in my house runs up basically though the center of the house. >> We've got a 1 story bungalow, about 980sqft. >> The chimney is masonry lined, probably 8" square inside. Right now in the >> living space its got fake wood paneling on 3 sides and drywall on the third >> as its in the kitchen but borders on the living room. I hate the fake wood >> paneling and thought the section around the chimney might be a good place to >> start purging it from the house. >> >> If I do that how do I finish where the chimney enters the ceiling? I >> understand I'm supposed to leave an air gap around the chimney but I don't >> want a warm air nosebleed into the attic... I've tried Googling but I don't >> think I have a good enough description of what I want to do to get good >> results from my search. >> >> -Curt > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
