More seriously, though, part of it is indeed that the thing makes noise, and part of it is that the house, being ancient, wasn't designed to mitigate this.
Noise is mitigated fairly well throughout the house, actually. You would not believe how much noise was transmitted through your old/new house in Georgia. But yeah, the basement doesn't have a lot of noise proofing. It probably had more back when it had a ceiling.
I'd like to preserve the possibility of using the old fireplace with an electric or natural gas fireplace at some point in the future, so please keep that in mind when planning.
While I didn't enjoy it, I did run wires in a suspended ceiling at UWM where there was only about two inches of clearance with 3/4" ceiling tiles. It can be done.
If you want to avoid the problem with the standard graham cracker ceiling tiles and water you need to try and locate some melamine or polyurethane foam tiles. Works just the same but doesn't flake and dust as much.
If you can't find either of those, you can buy aluminized sheets of melamine and then just use spray-on contact adhesive to glue them to thin plastic panels.
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And yes, of course.
More seriously, though, part of it is indeed that the thing makes noise, and part of it is that the house, being ancient, wasn't designed to mitigate this.
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I'd like to preserve the possibility of using the old fireplace with an electric or natural gas fireplace at some point in the future, so please keep that in mind when planning.
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If you can't find either of those, you can buy aluminized sheets of melamine and then just use spray-on contact adhesive to glue them to thin plastic panels.
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