Ceiling Tiles

Ceiling Tiles A Brief History

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Fix Ceiling

A very good day to you sir we are looking for someone to fix ceiling we had a flood in the boiler house which is unfortunately on the top floor naturally as water flows downhill the ceilings have been damaged throughout the building it's a very old Victorian building but it had a new ceiling installation in it around 20 years ago so we now need suspended ceilings replacing more or less completely is this is a job you think you would be able to cut it out quickly please come back to me otherwise we will have to look elsewhere thank you.

Ceiling Repair Contractors

As ceiling repair contractors I am sure you would be able to carry out the work described above. So all we need for you to do is call around To measure what you need to do and also we would prefer if you would have a look at the plasterboard walls which have also had the soaking and we feel a lot of those would need to be replaced so that would have to be included in the pricing that you come back to us with thanks for your time in anticipation.

Drop Ceilings Tiles

Replacing ceiling tiles dropped or drop ceilings tiles as they are sometimes named (especially in America) and better known to us Brits as suspended ceiling tiles were filed for a patent by inventor Donald A Brown on September the 8th 1958 and finally gained the patent on twenty third of May 1961 so for something that still looks bang up to date they are over fifty years yes half a century old.

Suspended Ceilings

When I (being as the grand children say lived in the olden days) first left my job as a shuttering carpenter/joiner and started on my lifetime love of suspended ceilings and partitions it was 1970, and some ceiling grids and ceiling panels consisted of galvanised T sections which we had to cut to size from 12ft lengths screw them together.

Hanging Ceiling

The hanging ceiling tiles we made on site cutting them from 8 x 4 Sundeala boards (yes that's the stuff you see on school and office walls as pin boards) we then had to screw these ceiling tile on to the grid, the very same system is still to be seen today all these years later in many Woolworth, British Home Stores, Boots Chemists and many more, the only difference being the tile are made from Asbestos believe me I should know I fixed them all over the UK including Belfast during the troubles. Not suitable for cleanroom ceiling tiles.

Ecophon Ceiling

As the seventies rolled on so the ceiling tile industry grew and for many years even up to the crash of 2007/8 15% yearly growth was normal, even through the many downturns and recessions as more and more architects and other specifiers started designing suspended ecophon ceiling and partitions and dry ling into new and refurbished buildings.

Plasterboard Ceiling

From that era till now apart from colours and some snazzy designs nothing much has changed within the ceiling tile business, early on you had face patern fissure tile as pretty much the norm they came in 600 x 600mm and 600 x 1200mm mostly made by Armstrong world industries as it was known then and manufactured on the Team Valley trading estate Gateshead. Other large scale ceiling tiles manufacturers are USG who also have a ceiling grid design, CEP have some excellent systems,

Celotex as I remember were the cheap plasterboard ceiling tiles alternative at the time and there were quite a few manufacturers came and went or became absorbed by larger rivals during this period.

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