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So I have this wall that is bowed from water damage. This damage happened many years ago due to neglect to fix a leaking pipe. It caused the exterior wall to bow out and separate from an interior wall. This affected two rooms in the back of the house.
Over the years people have done little fixes to try and make it look better but you can still tell from the covered wall that the wall was warped and it had some issues.
I'm looking for some advice, I'm thinking there are two possible approaches to fix this well.
1. Reframe the wall in these two rooms. There are asbestos shingles on the outside so ideally I wouldn't need to remove those to put up new sheathing although I think it would have to be done.
2. Remove and seal up the window so it won't look twisted in the wall and add sister studs all along the wall to get a flat surface to hang drywall on.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
I am most concerned with how the inside looks so if there is an easier way (rather than re framing) to just get a flat surface to hang drywall on I'm all ears.
Over the years people have done little fixes to try and make it look better but you can still tell from the covered wall that the wall was warped and it had some issues.
I'm looking for some advice, I'm thinking there are two possible approaches to fix this well.
1. Reframe the wall in these two rooms. There are asbestos shingles on the outside so ideally I wouldn't need to remove those to put up new sheathing although I think it would have to be done.
2. Remove and seal up the window so it won't look twisted in the wall and add sister studs all along the wall to get a flat surface to hang drywall on.
Do you guys have any suggestions?
I am most concerned with how the inside looks so if there is an easier way (rather than re framing) to just get a flat surface to hang drywall on I'm all ears.
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