Missing Ceilings

From the file of "it isn't always what it seems...", today we discovered a major heat loss where the owner didn't think he had one.

In a furnace room on a slab home, there was plenty of insulation on the ceiling exposed. First, I'm not a fan of exposed insulation and I told him so. With this being said, we tested to see how secure the insulation was and it pushed directly into the attic. No ceiling. Go figure why their gas bills have been so high.

The client said, "Can I put up plywood on top." Well, of course not. Due to the fact the ceiling is in the furnace room, the ceiling needs to be fire-rated. Drywall is the main ceiling we'd install and we quoted accordingly.

In the future, remember to "trust, but verify." In the immortal words of Terrell Owens, "If it smells like a rat; looks like a rat..."