Terrible Ceiling Patch Work. Tear Down or Rework & Hide It with Plan?

8 years ago

Recently moved into first family home purchase & on the lower bedroom I want to add a dropped light box over the queen bed. But there’s a horrible patch work on the ceiling with damage as you can see in the pictures provided. This was all a result of an apparent leak on the upstairs master bathroom.

There’s some dry paint “bubbles” ready to be scrapped off (circled in red) & a dent under the toilet! You can see the dent patch circled in yellow.

Question is, should the drywall simply be ripped down, check if it’s still leaking although there would be obvious humidity already, & put in new drywall & pay extra labor/material. Or a more simple; scrape, sand, repaint, add the dropped ceiling light box over the fix & that dent that haunts me when laying down! What do ya’ll recommend, any other methods, ideas? Thanks in advance, new to this! Haha

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Bruce in Northern Virginia
8 years ago
If you can find a local handyman who knows how to do drywall, it would be a fairly simple job to just pull it all down and put up a couple of new sheets. Taping and floating a ceiling is a PIA to do yourself, but a real drywall guy can do it very quickly.

Bruce
kudzu9
8 years ago
That's not worth trying to fix. It will look better and cost less to tear it out and redo it. However, be aware that it could be messy if there is loose fill insulation above....
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geoffrey_b
8 years ago
Move the bed out of the room, and replace the sheet rock. Lots of times there is some dirt / dust on the back side of the sheetrock.
tessyts
8 years ago
I'm wondering if it would be an issue to leave what you have there and just add new sheet rock over it? This way you don't have to deal with insulation falling through.
ci_lantro
8 years ago
This is a tear down.

A. Unlikely to find insulation because there is living space above the room.

B. Because there appears to be a big bulge in the yellow circled area. Why? You may want to add some furring strips to the joists for clearance of a drain line if that is the reason for the bulge & mysterious circular indent in the bulge.

C. Because you can visually inspect the plumbing above & correct anything that looks sketchy...i.e. an explanation for why you have areas of bubbled paint. Possibly some mold issues that need to be remedied.

D. So you can run wiring for the planned light box and drop wires so you can have wall switches instead of pull strings.