MS177
2012-05-03 12:09:36
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Hello everyone!
In my apartment (ground floor, built in '93, solid construction, concrete ceiling) there are currently wooden panels on counter battens under the ceiling, with shadow gaps at the edges. Except for the bay window area. There, above the ceiling-high window elements, there is about a 10 cm wide strip where there is “nothing” = painted concrete ceiling. It doesn’t directly catch the eye, but it’s not nice. Since I want to replace the wooden ceiling with drywall, it makes sense to close this spot. However, I have occasionally had some small mold problems there so far. Just very slight surface mold on the concrete ceiling, probably promoted by thermal bridges/dew point (bay window projection, reinforcement “slightly visible” through, bay window roof presumably not or not properly insulated).
Now the question: simply do the ceiling “normally” completely with drywall up to the window element and hope nothing grows underneath, or insulate the intermediate ceiling in this area from the inside? And if yes, how and with what? In principle, I would only have to insulate the projection (there is a heated apartment above the rest of the area), but this is not airtight connected to the rest of the apartment ceiling. Would it then have to be separated somehow?
In my apartment (ground floor, built in '93, solid construction, concrete ceiling) there are currently wooden panels on counter battens under the ceiling, with shadow gaps at the edges. Except for the bay window area. There, above the ceiling-high window elements, there is about a 10 cm wide strip where there is “nothing” = painted concrete ceiling. It doesn’t directly catch the eye, but it’s not nice. Since I want to replace the wooden ceiling with drywall, it makes sense to close this spot. However, I have occasionally had some small mold problems there so far. Just very slight surface mold on the concrete ceiling, probably promoted by thermal bridges/dew point (bay window projection, reinforcement “slightly visible” through, bay window roof presumably not or not properly insulated).
Now the question: simply do the ceiling “normally” completely with drywall up to the window element and hope nothing grows underneath, or insulate the intermediate ceiling in this area from the inside? And if yes, how and with what? In principle, I would only have to insulate the projection (there is a heated apartment above the rest of the area), but this is not airtight connected to the rest of the apartment ceiling. Would it then have to be separated somehow?