Drywall missing in our bathroom????

[jebise]

We live in a condo, and the second bathroom has removable ceiling (like tiles or something) and above that there is no drywall at all which i dunno is normal. i will try to make it clear as i can and will add pictures later (charging camera battery :P).

Lets start with the main bathroom, it has a similar ceiling as well from the top its dropped like 2 feet which is now the new ceiling. To me there is 2 feet of gab from the top 2 the ceiling because of pipes and other stuff. It's closed of so i can't really go in and take pictures or anything. There is also a rectangle that goes to the top and it is closed of (this is where the tube lights are) kida like a box in the top ceiling and comes down 2 feet. Which seems fine we have no complain about that bathroom.

The one in the master bedroom, like i said has these removable tile like things and it also drops 2 feet like the main bath. If we remove the titled ceiling we can see all the pipes and everything and there is only one area that actually has drywall. Which is the area that the tube light are in same box type area like in the main bathroom.

I'm been fighting with my dad on this matter and he says the 2 feet drop is missing drywall and we need to cover it. I keep saying that whoever added these titles ceiling they did not remove the drywall and it suppose to be the way it is all we should do is put up a fixed ceiling like in the main bathroom but he wants to cover the 2 feet that has no drywall. The thing i don't get is why is draywall missing from all 4 wall within the bathroom which is why i believe there should not be any drywall there coz of pipes or other reason that i do not know. But he keeps on insisting that there should be drywall there and the people that renovated where idiots and removed it for no reason.

So how should it look like i want to like cut a whole in the main bathroom and see how it is there but that maybe more work.

[CanadianMoFo]

It's perfectly normal to not have drywall above a drop ceiling.

[jed]

We had an apartment block, and once we had a suite above, leak down into the lower suite's bathroom. So, when we got the leak fixed and cleaned up, rather than re-drywall, we put the drop ceiling in instead - alot cheaper.

[jebise]

so you would say i'm correct that with a dropped ceiling there should not be any dry wall between the top and where the ceiling would start?

[CanadianMoFo]

It depends. With a new construction not usually. With an older home where there may have been renovations after the first ceiling was installed, sure makes sense. It's a lot of work to remove a ceiling just to hide it with a drop ceiling. I'd leave it up there rather than bring it all down.

CM

[jebise]

Sorry if i do not know the correct words as i don't know them. When i say top ceiling i mean the actual ceiling like if i start drilling a hole in it i would drill a hole in the above condo's floor or you can say the roof of our condo which is unfinished and gray or covered with cement. The dropped ceiling is what it sounds like, dropped 2 feet from the top(roof or w/e it's called).

It was built as a dropped ceiling when the building was built. At least from the look of things because it still gray and unfinished at the top. What looks like they did was removed the ceiling that was there and put up NEW a titled like one (both dropped ones). Both bathrooms have dropped ceiling and i do not think there was any renovations on the ceiling in the main bathroom. So i think the dropped ceilings where by design in both bathrooms, for reasons i do not know maybe coz of pipes.

The reason for the removal of the ceiling would have been to rewire the lights. Like i said there is a box like thing in the main bath that has a tube light in it. In the second bath that tube light and box is also there but dose not work because they removed the wires and added a new light fixture on the front wall above the mirror. We both agree on the fact that the old ceiling was removed to add the new light fixture, but they did a poor job replacing the ceiling. The only area that has dry wall between the top and the dropped ceiling is where the old tube light is (the back wall and and small portion on the left wall) You can also see a rectangle of paint where the old tube light was hanged (again the box type thing im said) but the rest of the top ceiling is gray and unfinished with cement.

Which brings me to my main question, which is should there be dry wall between the top and the dropped ceiling.

My dad just wanted to cover all 4 walls that do not have dry wall (from the top ceiling to where the dropped one stars)right now and leave the stupid titled like ceiling meaning just put up 2 feet of dry wall all around so it's all covered from the top to the floor with drywall, and the funny thing is he is saying we will just buy 1 big sheet of dry wall cut it 2 feet by w/e length and just glue it to the current one that is there. I want to remove the small dry wall that is there (again in the tube light area) or leave it as it is and just put up a new DROPPED ceiling all together.

My dad dose not want to put up a ceiling he just wants to cover the bathroom walls (2 feet area from the top to the dropped ceiling) that do not have drywall at the moment and leave the current stupid titled like ceiling and i just want to leave everything as is take down the old tilted ceiling and just put a new one.

This is how the titled ceiling looks like in the bathroom, i personally would not call it a ceiling because you can actually take out the bars they are not glued or tited and could fall.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/84263090_e182876e60.jpg
(not actually the bathroom ceiling just got it off google but very similar)

[jebise]

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[Kasakato]

So when you pop up the tile, all you see is the floor joist and the sub-floor? Thats normal.