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Sat, Feb 20, 10 at 17:17
| Previous owners converted a first floor - basement - to an apartment. It currently has 7 ft ceilings. We were thinking of removing the sheet rock and installing somekind of fireproof, insulation material between the rafters and the spray painting everything black to give it the illusion of highe ceilings. Does this kind of product exist? |
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| In the UK there's a product to go on the rafters when the roof is covered with straw. It's a firestop for 1 hour at 2000F. That's all I can help you with but it's well known and I'd say to look at the BBC show called Grand Designs .. one where a straw roof caught fire and the roof was replaced.. in about 2006. You might be able to follow up on the product name there or by looking for sites limiting to the UK for fire stop. use google this way to limit to uk. site:.co.uk fire stop roof the site:.co.uk the latter words are what you're looking for. I've tried Good luck. |
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| "painting everything black to give it the illusion of highe ceilings" This is a really bad idea. Black ceilings are not going to make a basement look taller. It will just look like a cave. |
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- Posted by moccasinlanding (My Page) on Fri, Mar 19, 10 at 19:00
| I watch the show INCOME PROPERTY on HGTV. The guy there always puts in ROCK WOOL as overhead insulation between floors. He also has other materials to serve as a fire break, but I am not able to speak with any kind of authority. |
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