Does anyone know the specific term for the type of metal angle used in suspended industrial ceilings?
Bit of a long shot I know
Whoever built my house didn't know the meaning of straight so the beams tent up towards the middle of the room by about 5 degrees (there was a
wall in the middle of the room so it wasn't obvious... it isn't there any more!!)....
I had a cunning plan involving attaching metal angle to the bottoms of the beams as a known straight + level datum and attaching the plasterboard to
the metal angle not the beams.
But I can't find the stuff for looking. I know I could just go down to Ikea with a spanner and nick half their ceiling but I'm not sure
they'd appreciate it...
I could do it using flipping big bracket from B+Q / metal supermarket but it would cost.... I'm assuming a generic suspended ceiling supplier
would be cheaper.
you can buy the metal angle on ebay!
If you want a smooth plaster finish, rather than 600 x 600 tiles, you want to be researching (Google) "MF Ceiling"
British Gypsum have some details on their site.
You won't normally be able to span all the way across, you'll be forming a grid and fixing the plasterboard to that.
It's tricky, but not impossible to get level. A normal spirit level just won't cut it!
If you give me the dimensions of the room, I can sketch it up in CAD, so you can get your quantities sorted.
Mike
you want perimeter trim for fixing the boards to. Try CCF or CPD Google search or you may get it from a local Travis Perkins builders merchant. Pretty cheap by the meter.
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Originally posted by Guinness
If you want a smooth plaster finish, rather than 600 x 600 tiles, you want to be researching (Google) "MF Ceiling"
British Gypsum have some details on their site.
You won't normally be able to span all the way across, you'll be forming a grid and fixing the plasterboard to that.
It's tricky, but not impossible to get level. A normal spirit level just won't cut it!
If you give me the dimensions of the room, I can sketch it up in CAD, so you can get your quantities sorted.
Mike
what about using lengths of wood that taper away to nothing.............used for leveling floors or puting a fall on a flat roof...............then screwthem to ceiling then screw plaster board to them.......may have got wrong end of stick but plasterboard is a lot heavier than ceiling tiles........
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Originally posted by deanwelch
what about using lengths of wood that taper away to nothing.............used for leveling floors or puting a fall on a flat roof...............then screwthem to ceiling then screw plaster board to them.......may have got wrong end of stick but plasterboard is a lot heavier than ceiling tiles........
I know it as 'T bar'. HTH
Find the old ceiling joists and just nail some 3x2 to the underneath of them full length then fasten your boards to that. You'll have a slightly lower room so saving heating costs . The rise in the middle is where the old wall held the beams up and the other walls possible settled, is there a ridge in the floor as well or did that get relaid ?
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Originally posted by Peteff
Find the old ceiling joists and just nail some 3x2 to the underneath of them full length then fasten your boards to that.