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Exposed Ceiling Beams/Floor Joists
What's the difference? If I pull my ceilings down will the joists then be beams?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.15.48 Joists that support the plaster board I believe is just bog standard timber of any kind hard or soft. Exposed beams of good qualitiy are normally oak. But the latter now is very expensive thats if you can get it. There are other hard woods but they don't spring to mind at pesent I'm sure Builder will know.
16.00 A few years back I treated a block work surface for someone with wood oil, about 5 coats, it looked great and was up to the job. But to keep it looking good I told them it would need doing again in about 2/3 years time.
I had a call from them about 3 years later to say they had done it themselves but couldn't understand why after three weeks it was still tacky, and they couldn't use it. The silly *** had used gloss varnish. They couldn't understand when I told them, that the varnish is just flouting on the oil and will not sink into the wood. :0((
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