Ceilings Suspended
Ceilings Suspended From Joists, Concrete Or Whatever The Substrata You Intend Your Ceiling To Hang From Will Have A Special Fixing Designed For The Job.
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Suspended Ceiling Fixings
Staple Nail
Ceilings suspended from joists, concrete or whatever the substrata you intend your ceiling to hang from will have a special fixing designed suspended ceiling fixings for the job, these can be a simple staple hammered into the side of joist that have never been boarded so allowing easy access for fixing wire ceiling hangers with staples.
Suspended Ceiling Wire Fixings Vine Eyes
For joists that have plasterboard fix below them or in older buildings still have the old plaster laths and thick plaster which you will usually find in existing buildings then a suspended ceiling wire fixings called vine eye is 1 answer and an angle bracket screwed up into the joist is another, both solutions are a good fixing method and basically it comes down to personal preference or what you have easily available to fix your ceilings suspended from joists.
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Ceiling Fixings
Wire Hanger
On most construction sites the slab between floors will probably be some sort of concrete system, ceilings suspended from concrete usually entail drilling the concrete with a 6mm drill bit and then hammer ceiling fixings knocked into the hole made by the drill, once hammered home you turn your claw hammer around and pull the fixing back down towards you until it’s tight in the concrete. This fixing works on a reverse wedge idea so the more weight applied to it the tighter it becomes in the concrete.
Types Of Hammer Fix and Steel Nail Ins
Angle Brackets
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How To Tie Ceiling Wire
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Plasterboard Ceiling Fixings
Alternative plasterboard ceiling fixings are an angle bracket and a steel nail in, steel nail ins are the same as the plastic hammer fixings you see in diy stores and are very effective for ceilings suspended from the side of coffers in coffered concrete slab systems, it is not recommended to use these steel hammer in fixings for ceilings suspended from the bottom of concrete as they can pull out and any weight added later by unsuspecting other trades could make this a very big problem.
Ceiling Fixing
S Purlin Section
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 Purlin Clip
Another ceiling fixing suspended from single floor and top floors that have a metal sheeting system either insulated or single skin sheets sat on purlins is purlin clips, these are fixed on the return edge of the S purlin and the ceiling wire tied to the pre made hole.
There are many more materials and types of floor that could require different fixings but you can rest assured that whatever the circumstances a fixing system is available for ceilings suspended from any structure. |
