How To Suspended Ceiling

Here s how to update a suspended ceiling and turn it into a beautiful feature in any room.

How to suspended ceiling. Step 3 sketch your plan. Put a secondary runner every 2 ft 0 61 m along your main runners. It starts with a game plan.

Nail wall angle brackets along the chalk line all around the room with the bottom leg of the l angle facing into the room and flush along the chalk line. Setting the perimeter the first step is to determine the maximum height of the new suspended ceiling. Cut the bracket to the required lengths with tin snips or a hacksaw.

Then layout your. Lift your 4 ft 1 2 m runners above the main runners and feed them into the slots on the mains. Quickhang grid hook kits.

Step 1 measure. Literally measure and make a to scale drawing of each room. Step 2 install the l channel.

These handy kits mean you only need to mark off intervals where you ll install the brackets nail in the brackets and then thread in the pre bent heavy duty hooks that will support the grid. Setting the perimeter with the perimeter established locate the wall studs and nail the perimeter molding in. First get the exact measurements of the room where the suspended ceiling will be installed.

Step 1 design your drop ceiling grid. Snap a chalk line marking the top of the wall angle. We ve been more than a little annoyed with the suspended ceilings in our living and dining rooms since we moved into our house.