Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Necessary to plaster kitchen ceiling once old soffit is removed?
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Indiana627
02-21-09, 02:21 PM
During our kitchen remodel, I will be removing soffits that our current wall cabinets are attached to so that I can put taller wall cabinets in. The kitchen ceiling is plastered. When I take the soffits down, I assume I'll expose the ceiling framing.
I'm pretty sure I need to hang new blueboard on the ceiling where the soffits where, but do I also need to have new plastered applied to the new blueboard before installing the new wall cabinets? The new wall cabinets will butt up to the ceiling so the ceiling where the soffits were will not be exposed, but I suppose by not adding the plaster to make the ceiling flat, there will be a little lip where the old plaster meets the new cabinets. How do I handle this? Thanks.
Mark
I'm pretty sure I need to hang new blueboard on the ceiling where the soffits where, but do I also need to have new plastered applied to the new blueboard before installing the new wall cabinets? The new wall cabinets will butt up to the ceiling so the ceiling where the soffits were will not be exposed, but I suppose by not adding the plaster to make the ceiling flat, there will be a little lip where the old plaster meets the new cabinets. How do I handle this? Thanks.
Mark
XSleeper
02-21-09, 03:54 PM
At a minimum, the seam between the old and new should be "fire taped". This is just so that you don't have any gap where a fire could spread quickly to the roof or next floor.
If covering the old plaster line is going to be a problem, perhaps you could consider keeping the cabinets a few inches below the ceiling, and installing a filler on top of the cabinets and a cove or crown molding, which would help cover any taping you need to do or the old soffit/cabinet edges.
If covering the old plaster line is going to be a problem, perhaps you could consider keeping the cabinets a few inches below the ceiling, and installing a filler on top of the cabinets and a cove or crown molding, which would help cover any taping you need to do or the old soffit/cabinet edges.
Indiana627
02-22-09, 08:37 AM
We're going to use 36" wall cabinets and they need to go pretty much all the way to the ceiling in order to have the right space between them and the countertop. The more I think about it, probably it would be best to have the ceiling plastered once the soffits come down since the soffits are deeper than 12" so I'd at least have to plaster a few inches in order to cover the gap, and at that point I might as well do the whole thing. Thanks.
Indiana627
02-22-09, 12:49 PM
I plan on contracting that part out. My father in law put on an addition a few years ago and the plaster guy he used did a great job blending the old and new ceiling, so I'm going to give him a call and have him come look at everything before I start demo. Thanks for the input.
Allison1888
02-24-09, 08:41 PM
Have you taken pictures? It would be nice to see the before, during and after.