How To Build A Ceiling

Once this is done screw on the ceiling panels to the wooden framework.

How to build a ceiling. Snap chalk to outline where the edge of the vinyl meets the upper level of ceiling. It was uneven and just bad and i decided i wanted to make the best of it and put a whole new ceiling under it. Determine your beam height and cut several cripple studs intermediate vertical supports of that length to get started.

2 4 s for the frame. The sides of ceiling beams are usually made from 1x3 1x4 or 1x6 depending. How to build a wood ceiling.

Tongue in groove boards. Once you have a layout you like the first step is to attach a dimension lumber nailer at each. Install the sides and bottoms of the beams.

To do this you must first build a wooden frame of regularly spaced parallel beams. The vertical side trim overhangs the ceiling. Small 45 degree chamfers routed on the edges of all the exposed trim hide all but the worst.

There is no such thing as a miter on this project. How to build a wood beam ceiling get started with nailers. Attach the longer vinyl beads first.

Install one cripple stud at each end of the beam where the beam terminates into the wall. Change the height of the frame beams accordingly. Every end joint is a straightforward square cut.