Sagging Attic Ceiling

The job requires two people to lift the panels unless you use a lift.

Sagging attic ceiling.

The springs connect to power arms at the upper end of the stairs and keep the door closed and even with the ceiling. Pull down attic stairs have coil springs at each side of the unit. Once you ve installed primed and painted the new ceiling it should be maintenance free for many years. As a result you get lots of air leakage not to mention a noticeably uneven ceiling plane.

When the roof truss pulls upward it may lift the ceiling. You either have to replace 1 2 in. No obvious leaking point was found. Installing drywall is another solid solution for an ugly ceiling.

By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine solutions for sagging drywall. We called several roof companies and they give us different answers. If it ever begins to sag here s how to fix it. Sagging ceiling could be an indication of framing issues some of which could be related to the roof.

Roof trusses are designed to move slightly as their wood members expand and contract with attic temperature and moisture fluctuations. One solution is to ignore the sagging factor and install what known as an attic stair insulator. Our ceiling tapes are sagging which started two weeks ago. A general contractor sistered new joists to the existing ones.

You can correct a sagging ceiling by overlaying a two piece strongback on the joists. One company think it s roof vent related and suggest us to change all the vents. We have open kitchen to the living room. They often occur because of warps from weather and temperature.

Should the bottom cord of one or more trusses be sagging or damaged it may be reflected in a sagging ceiling or if the roof is over loaded to heavy then the downward pressure may cause the sagging. Sometimes they come about when different materials are used between the frame and the joists. It s essentially an insulated cover that sits on top of the attic stair area. If it is sagging because it got wet it probably means that a water.

At the time of construction nails rather than screws regularly were used to attach wood lath to joists and the nails had slipped right out. Or add furring strips and a second layer of 5 8 in. It happens at multiple place in our living room vaulted ceiling and our kitchen has an attic. Undersized joists in the attic floor had bowed and then the keys in the plaster ceiling pulled away from the joists.

As those springs stretch ceilings also settle.