Ah, a finished basement. What is a good project remodeling. Immediately provides additional, usable living space in the house. And of course, to insulate exterior walls reduces heat escape and thus save energy. It can be seen as a major restructuring project house in winter, when people tend to Cocoon more (ie stay at home more) due to bad weather.

But what should the ceiling? Installation on the ceiling, gypsum plaster screws attached to the support beams of gypsum as tunnels and "mud" (language in the home builders / restorers of what is a white paste) is applied to the site where the gypsum boards to comply with, followed by stable (chalk dust, yuk!), followed by priming and painting the ceiling paint?

Or should we install a drop "ceiling with metal rods hung with wires attached to the ceiling support beams intersect through the basement, where the fire retardant> The tiles are made? In our cellar we have both, but most of the basement used for a ceiling hung.

There is more work required by a stucco ceiling from beginning to end, in my opinion. Hard work. How can they be 8 meters by 4 meters of plasterboard attached to the ceiling yet? Yes, with the screws, but think of the physical labor. These are heavy sheets of gypsum.

And then think about the physical connection with the use ofmud, and then sanding the mud on the ceiling. Wow! Painting a ceiling is quite difficult.

A man may say, depends on appearance. You want your basement to look like a basement? Or that you look like a floor in your house? In the latter case, you will probably want a ceiling plaster. As part of this is personal preference, ascetic.

But after the restructuring, will install a ceiling plaster, never in a basement, you can have in Our future as a ceiling is not already.

Why? When you run the renovation of wiring and / or plumber, you will spend hours and hours, not only during the discussions and the pipe under the ground floor (which is your basement ceiling), but you must also follow the path of wiring and jars to find the wires that goes where and what the tubes are used for what. You can do so effectively (and when the enemies of home renovation is not!) If> Ceiling is drywalled, unless it breaks the chalk and then patch all over again.

Even with new plumbing, you must have access to the pipes on the ceiling basement. At least in our house, we did. Take for example the existing plumbing, en-suite in our house that we converted for use by a relative with disabilities. It 'was very repetitive and bathroom are located in another part of space.

Our approach is that developers stop modevalves for each hot / cold line, a very nice approach. If you have a plaster ceiling, you know what that means, yes, we must break the chalk. But if you have a drop ceiling, all you have to do is to remove the ceiling tiles, plumbing, do your thing and then install the ceiling (which is already 20 seconds).

Thus, from a restoration / conversion point of view, is my money in drop ceilings.