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Hi ya. It's great to find such a wonderful, helpful online community focused on a subject near and dear to my heart. When I was a small boy, I always helped my dad who did lots of work on our houses (we moved around a lot). He also worked in the theatre, designing and building stage sets. I...

Gotcha. Just to clarify, my concern is that the weight of the thicker drywall will pull the ceiling joists down in the years ahead so that the whole ceiling bows toward the floor. The plaster ceiling certainly did that, but it was up there for 150 years.

Thanks so much for the speedy reply. We used a LOT of screws, spaced 6" to 8" apart. Here are some photos. I looked online and found a site that said plaster and lath at 1/2" thick weighs about 10 pounds per square foot. 5/8" drywall weighs about a quarter of that, 2.2 pounds per square foot...

I'm working on replacing the ceiling in the dining room in a house built in the 1860s. The room is 20 ft long and 11 ft wide. The original plaster and lathe ceiling was removed. Because the 2x10 joists (they are literally that dimension because they are old rough cut) run the length of the room...