My contractor thinks patching all these large holes will be too $$$, the result will not be great, and the cracks will return. Because the window is being relocated, we will add a 2x4 skylight in the back, dining room part of the room. On the exterror wall, things are moving to make way for the garage-I’m relocating the tall window to that same wall but in the front of the room the fireplace is being removed (1970s add-on and sub-par construction). He would cut out that area, patch and skim coat. My contractor also wants to improve the way the previous people handled the seam in the wall-it bows out a little and there is a crack. He can patch but the larger-longer cracks would come back. When his drywall guy was out, he thought all that cutting into the ceiling would cause the existing cracks to get wider. There’s a beam across the ceiling that my architect/contractor said we can move into the attic (because I’m converting the adjoining carport into the garage, it changes the pitch of the roof enough to allow the beam to move into the attic.)ĭilemma: how to handle the walls/ceiling? My contract said he needs to cut out a chunk of the ceiling to get access to the beam.
In a previous remodel (in the 70s?) someone took down the wall between the living room and original kitchen to create one long room, my current living room and dining room. They have some cracks, but I think it adds character. I own a 1940 bungalow with old lathe and plaster walls.