No, there isn’t access above without removing the planks. The good thing is there are no nail holes (except on the perimeter under the crown) so the planks can go back up after dealing with the issue… Unless there was water damage which is the only reason I’ve ever ripped out a drywall ceiling. In which case I had a huge drywall mess to deal with.

Do you still have the option to access behind the ceiling? We were looking to install this in the basement instead of Sheetrock to still be able to access pipes and ductwork in an emergency. Curious if you would have to take the entire molding out and then the entire thing down until you got to the problem if there was one…

It’s been a couple years since I did this project so I don’t remember but I probably didn’t read that part of the instructions. 😉

I have a quick question. Your ceiling turned out great! We’re finished installing and now putting up crown. Since the instructions said to not nail the crown into the ceiling, did you just nail the bottom of the crown into the crown into the wall?

LOL I was confused at the “pink” question. I used Falling Snow (I think it’s a Behr color) in sherwin williams ProClassic semi gloss.