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cas

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I would just vent the fan up to the ridge of the roof....hopefully you
have ridge vents....or vent it up high in the attic where nothing can
get down into it....again, hopefully you have some sort of
ventilation...

We have ridge vents but I'd have to remove the walls in the attic to
get to them.

To remove the old textured ceiling...if its that popcorn stuff you can
just spritz it with water, experiment to find out how much, and scrape
off the popcorn and mud with a scraper then sand down any remaining
mud.... you only want to use enough water to remove the popcorn and
mud...you do not want to soak into the sheetrock.

I wish it was popcorn, that stuff usually comes off easily. This stuff
is must have been applied with gorilla glue or something, it doesn't
even respond to water. :P Right now I'm applying some killz2 to the
ceiling (I cleaned it off) to

IF you are planning on just hanging another layer of sheetrock beneath
the existing layer.... I would hang the sheetrock..install nay fans
lights etc.... and then call in a sheetrock finisher to finsih the
job...

I thought about having someone come in to hang it, finding someone has
been a problem. The only reference I had was someone who didn't speak
english and had no phone. We're not going there. :P