House Enhancements - Installing A Suspended Ceiling

A suspended ceiling is often installed in basements; and is light-weight, sensible and easy to install. It allows access to pipes, wiring and ductwork for future servicing.

A grid system is hung from ceiling joists or the present ceiling. The grid items embody wall angles, foremost tees and cross tees.

Determine on the height of ceiling under all ducts and other overhead obstructions holding above the very best door and window frames.

Snap a stage chalk line on the partitions at this height. Starting at one nook and working around the room fasten the wall angles by aligning the decrease edge on the chalk line and nailing by means of the wallboard into the wall studs. At outside corners, minimize out a portion of the higher a part of each angle, then place one angle overlapping the other. For an inside corner simply lap one corner over the other.

Predominant tees are set in place on the wall angles. Mark their areas on the walls and fasten screw eyes to ceiling joists to support the wire hangers. To find out hanger size, briefly clamp a main tee section on high of the wall angles at reverse sides of the room. Tie a string tautly between the hanger holes. Insert hanger wires within the screw eyes and bend them directly underneath the string.

Where most important tees will run parallel but not directly beneath joists, nail 1 inch X three inch lumber bridges across the joists and insert screw eyes into them. Then decide hanger wire length as above.

Rest one end of each predominant tee on a wall angle and fasten the opposite end to a wire hanger then attach intermediate hangers. Cling all most important tees across the room splicing as necessary.

Reduce the cross tees to length (if that is necessary) to suit the borders of the ceiling grid. Place lower ends on the wall angles and snap the opposite ends into the primary tee slots. Working across the room, snap all cross tees in place.

With your complete grid work in place, slip the ceiling panels up by the openings and lay them on the flanges of the angles and tees.

This provides you with a pretty good idea of what's concerned with the set up of a suspended ceiling system. Most house enchancment centres will be capable to provide you with set address up directions and diagrams for a grid system suspended ceiling.

It is simply that easy!