We have a top floor flat in an 1890s Edinburgh tenement block. In the large room that serves as a kitchen/dining room there is a suspended ceiling to the corner furthest from the window, the corner that also houses the kitchen, cupboards, cooker, fridge/freezer etc. It is about 2.5ft lower than the high ceiling in the rest of the room. It has a light fitting and an extraction fan fitted to it.
If I knock on it it sounds hollow and I think it's constructed from plasterboard. Unfortunately the highly decorative coving that encircles the rest of the room continues at an angle across where this lower part is.
I would like to remove it and make use of the extra height but I am wary of just knocking it out with no knowledge of what might be behind it.
Any ideas? Or should I just go for it?
I suspect it will, at best, result in a new ceiling and renewing/extending the decorative coving into the corner. At worst, I could find a whole load of wiring/pipes/water tank etc and have to reinstate the lowered ceiling and be no better off than I am now. We have a combi-boiler and have no need for a water tank.
All suggestions welcome.....
If I knock on it it sounds hollow and I think it's constructed from plasterboard. Unfortunately the highly decorative coving that encircles the rest of the room continues at an angle across where this lower part is.
I would like to remove it and make use of the extra height but I am wary of just knocking it out with no knowledge of what might be behind it.
Any ideas? Or should I just go for it?
I suspect it will, at best, result in a new ceiling and renewing/extending the decorative coving into the corner. At worst, I could find a whole load of wiring/pipes/water tank etc and have to reinstate the lowered ceiling and be no better off than I am now. We have a combi-boiler and have no need for a water tank.
All suggestions welcome.....
