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| plastering over an exposed wood beam |
emijh |
07/04/06 |
our son just bought a 20 year old house. the header for the 8 1/2ft archway between the livingroom and breakfast room is a triple 2x10. hoping we would be able to create a cleaner line, we have removed the 1x12s and molding that the previous owner had nailed over it.
since the triple 2x10 is the same thickness as the wall it runs into and up to, we can't just sheetrock over it. we would like to end up with a paintable surface that would appear to be just part of the wall.
is it possible to plaster over the beam?
would you use joint compound or some other product?
would you tape the joint where the beam meets the existing sheetrock?
should the exposed wood (20 years old) be primed?
any advice you can offer would be greatly appreciated. |
Clarification/Follow-up by emijh on 07/04/06 4:54 pm:
sorry. i clearly didn't do a good job explaining our problem. let me try in another way.
the wall is 15 ft wide and 8 ft high. in the middle of the wall is a rectangular opening into the next room. the opening is 8 1/2 ft wide and 7ft tall. above the opening you see the exposed face of a wood beam that is 9 ft wide and 9 inches tall. above that is a strip of sheet rock 3 inches tall which butts up to the ceiling. to either side of the opening, and therefore either end of the exposed beam, the wall is sheetrocked.
the face of the beam is flush with the sheetrock that is on the wall to the left, right and above the face of the beam. therefore, we are trying to figure out how to put what i guess you'd consider a skim coat of plaster over the face so that it would look like sheetrock and could be painted.
sorry not to have been clearer the first time around. thanks for your input.
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