Thanks, that is good to know, and explains it. god forbid anyone from HD woulda told me this.... Or that they would carry all three....
For the tongue-clucking house police, I've come up with an even easier solution, almost as non-code. I have a cupla bags of fiberglass insultion scraps, so I'm just gonna pack all the crevices with this, and laminate that area of the ceiling w/ leftover 1/8" paneling, and paint to match--as if anything matches to begin with.
If it makes the House Police feel any better, the garage is not used for cars, anyway.
Arrest me....
This whole notion of House Perfection, and of "Doin it right" is, to me, an effing HGTV conspiracy. There have been numerous articles written, and I think research studies done and this fukn *obsession* we have w/ our goddamm lawns and houses. They have become gargantuan symbolic badges of, basically, my dick is bigger than your dick. It is, immho (2nd m= maladjusted), insanity.
HGTV is a significant factor in what has turned real estate into a predatory phenom, where now the "average" person feeds off the less fortunate average person. Kids, in the major metropolitan areas, will never be able to leave their parents houses--or 1 BR apt, as the case may be. Which makes sed predation now economic cannibalism.
The other factors are Malthus and Darwin. And, of course, effing Carlton Shits.
Burned in my brain is the HGTV episode where this effing twit just had to have a bathroom with a 3-story domed Roman ceiling. Man, her dumps musta just been spectacular