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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...

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...