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Originally Posted by villagetinker

Thanks for the info. I was very surprised that these were installed in the manner you described, but that makes the removal much easier then I imagined. just out of curiosity, was the ceiling intact when these were removed? That makes the project real easy.

I assume you are referring to drywall. No ceiling drywall above posts but there was “drying framing” for the posts. Ceiling required drywall patching.