Here's my vote for a drop ceiling

Yuck...always a risk you run. I didn't have much of a choice with my basement...I couldn't afford the extra 2" that I would have had to drop it further to install it. Plus, a drywall ceiling just looks a little nicer and more like another room in your house instead of a "basement". Fortunately, that's about a $10 repair.
 
If you were in my area I would come fix that up for you and make it dissapear. I do drywall taping for a living. make sure you cut the drywall back far enough that it goes passed the area that was wet. obviously no insulation in your ceiling so no risk of mold but it's better to cut out all the drywall that was wet.
 
If you were in my area I would come fix that up for you and make it dissapear. I do drywall taping for a living. make sure you cut the drywall back far enough that it goes passed the area that was wet. obviously no insulation in your ceiling so no risk of mold but it's better to cut out all the drywall that was wet.


Why would any one choose such a profession without being forced to do so? I honestly dont know anyone who enjoys working with drywall and its not like the pay is great. Its on the top ten list of jobs I would never do for a living. In other words, I hate drywall too.
 
Union rates for drywall taping right now in toronto is $35 an hour and drywall installation (Boarding) is somewhere around the same. I think it's a dollar less an hour.

so not a bad living. I don't know what the pay is like over there in the US though.
 
Union rates for drywall taping right now in toronto is $35 an hour and drywall installation (Boarding) is somewhere around the same. I think it's a dollar less an hour.

so not a bad living. I don't know what the pay is like over there in the US though.

In the past we could say "yeah only $35 Canadian dollars"- But not nowadays.

Do you get 40 hours a week at $35? Wow! 70k a year for drywall labor is impressive. My advice is to never leave Canada.
 
Yeah, probably looking at $8-10 an hour for a mexican to do it here. No offense to mexicans, they do great work but they need to charge more.
 
In the past we could say "yeah only $35 Canadian dollars"- But not nowadays.

Do you get 40 hours a week at $35? Wow! 70k a year for drywall labor is impressive. My advice is to never leave Canada.

because I work for a Union Drywall company they are required to give everyone a minimum of 40 hours a week. then you do your own side jobs on the side once in a while evenings and weekends Drywall and tape peoples basements. gives you that extra couple thousand dollars here and there to buy toys like arcade machines lol. I made a new rule that every side job I do, I get to buy a new arcade machine. the wife can have the rest of the money
 
My vote is for the dropped ceiling if you have the ceiling height. Forgot to mention - if you have a pool table, kids get excited and raise their pool cues after a good shot. Some adults as well and they usually succeed at punching through the drywall. In my youth we had a pool table in our basement and my Dad was very skilled at patching the holes we made after giving us hell.

See my post on Chris's tokens only site:


http://www.tokensonly.com/2009/12/mi...-ceiling-leak/

Bill
 
I want to install a drop ceiling in my basement. Is it pretty easy to do by yourself? Do they make black tiles? :)
 
The more and more I read about basement hell the more and more I am glad that's not an option for me. I've been pricing prebuilt wood sheds and I can have a 12 x 12 built on location for about $2 grand. I'd have to run at least a single 20 amp line over but then I could put the workshop out in the shed freeing up the other side of my garage completely for additional gameroom.... if I can't get by with about 600sq feet of gameroom, I figure it's time to give up.
 
because I work for a Union Drywall company they are required to give everyone a minimum of 40 hours a week. then you do your own side jobs on the side once in a while evenings and weekends Drywall and tape peoples basements. gives you that extra couple thousand dollars here and there to buy toys like arcade machines lol. I made a new rule that every side job I do, I get to buy a new arcade machine. the wife can have the rest of the money
You have enough drywall work in Canada to do 40 hour weeks all year long?

Drywall in Michigan is all but dead...I was residential though, hate commercial jobs.

-Tim
 
The more and more I read about basement hell the more and more I am glad that's not an option for me.

Dude, basements are the shizz. SO much nicer than a garage gameroom. How else can a person get a 1500-2000+ sqft gameroom, without spending a fortune or building a separate large structure? Basements usually = free square footage, and you still have a nice place to keep or work on your cars.

The big problem is a LOT of basements really aren't suitable for finished space due to potential water issues. Then people try to take advantage of that free space and it ends up being flooded. It's just too hard to resist using all that space I guess. I know people who keep doing it and it's inevitable they'll get completely flooded again.

Wade
 
damn chris... leaks AGAIN huh?? Are yo sure that section of your house isnt on top of a old indian burial ground or something??? sucks man..


Im SOOOOOOOO glad i havent finished my celing int he gameroom.. Sprayed it flat black and called it a day...


i vote you move the arcades to the rec room and move the rec room stuff to the former arcade :D
 
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