The Ancient Basement–the Ceiling is Finished!

We used Hardie Board Plank sheets for our ceiling because they are waterproof, mold proof, and fire proof. While all of those are really good things, those attributes make the sheets EXTREMELY heavy. This project took so much longer than I would have ever guessed it would.

Here is a link on our progress:

The Ancient Basement–The Ceiling

So, after this post we finished putting up the rest of the sheets. I sanded the screw holes smooth (where it lifts up a little bit of the material when you drive the screw), and I caulked all the seams with latex painters caulk. I painted all the sheets with their final coat of PPG Damask Silk in egg shell. It is the same color as the walls.

Here’s the end result:

Once we are sure that we don’t need to take any panels down, we will caulk all the screw holes and paint the ceiling again. We need to have some parts of the basement starting to look finished to give us the motivation to keep going. Just getting this far has been so much work. (Especially since, we didn’t know what we were doing and have had to learn along the way.)