If this is your top floor and the roof uses trusses, don't be surprised if
the ends of the ceiling sheetrock are not nailed to the truss or are nailed
to a nailing strip attached to the wall. Trusses move up and down with the
weather and if ceiling sheetrock is nailed to the end of the trusses, gaps
show up between the walls and ceiling.

As for your question, I don't have an answer. It might depend on what you
find as you take things apart.



"Eigenvector" wrote in message
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Just a simple question related to this. Assuming I want to remove all the
drywall along a wall - if I wanted to keep the ceiling intact, should I
run a knife along the corner first to break the joint tape?

I guess I'm wondering if pulling down the wall will shred the ceiling
regardless of how careful I am doing it. I guess in some regard I have to
feather the corner when I retape so maybe this is a moot point anyway. or
maybe I can cut the drywall say 6 inches from the corner and not remove
the wall all the way to the ceiling then that makes installing the repair
a bit simpler.