Bad Ceiling Decisions from the Past Haunt Today's Homeowners

Sometimes, the decisions of earlier generations can have a very direct effect on the way we live our lives. That's true in terms of a variety of bigger issues, but it's also a reality in the world of home improvement and remodeling.

Occasionally, we'll encounter old work that makes us scratch our heads, wondering what those people were thinking, right before we sigh and prepare ourselves for a massive project to correct the "sins of the father".

Here are two perfect examples of this phenomena, pulled from the single area of ceiling repair. They illustrate exactly why the fact that "the don't build 'em like they used to" isn't always a bad thing.

Nails over screws. It makes sense.

If you're going to put up a drywall ceiling, gravity is going to try to yank it down. If you're going to top the drywall with gobs of textured mud to create a ceiling surface, gravity will yank that much harder. Eventually, the drywall will sag and look horrible if you don't mount it correctly.

Most of us would recognize that.

We'd act accordingly. We'd put up the drywall with screws. We'd put enough screws in, too.

That would help keep sagging to a minimum. That's not the way they did it as early as thirty years ago, though.

Instead of using screws, they just nailed the stuff right up.

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