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Suspended Ceiling Tiles
Suspended Ceiling Tiles can be fitted into a ceiling grid system known as a lay in grid by all in the UK suspended ceiling industry alternatively systems such as clip in tile grid also referred to as bang up or to many of older generation this system is still referred to as Burgess named after the British manufacturer of that name.
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The reason the ceiling fixers contracts managers and all in the suspended ceiling tiles supply chain including installers delivery drivers staff at suppliers and indeed the bosses of the ceiling company thought of this type of ceiling as Burgess came about as it was the only metal suspended ceiling tiles makers in the country back in the 50s,60s and 70s (Burgess patented and introduced the clip in metal ceiling tile)
As such when a fixer phoned a company asking if they needed ceiling fixers while looking for work the fixer would invariably be asked if they could fix Burgess answering no would almost certainly lead to the fixer being told they would be considered in the future and the name and contact details kept in case of a boom time. |
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If the fixer answered yes I have fixed Burgess lots of times and could name a few Burgess suspended ceilings tiles and grid components such as channel trim 90 angle ceiling hangers steel wedges burgess c channel and spring tee’s or as for suspended ceiling tiles whether they had installed plain or perforated one being solid steel the other having tiny holes and usually with an insulation pad sat in the back of the suspended ceiling tile they would usually be taken on and sent to a site which could be anywhere in the UK.
I personally visited the Burgess factory at Hinckley, Leicestershire in the seventies to collect tiles for a job that had to be finished and compared to today’s facilities with clean well marked areas and all the modern technology on view back then it was more like something out of a Charles Dickens book all dark and broody that said so where all the factories not just suspended ceiling tiles products facilities.
Easily the most used and specified ceiling system in the early days was by a country mile Armstrong ceiling tiles and grid.
I personally visited the Burgess factory at Hinckley, Leicestershire in the seventies to collect tiles for a job that had to be finished and compared to today’s facilities with clean well marked areas and all the modern technology on view back then it was more like something out of a Charles Dickens book all dark and broody that said so where all the factories not just suspended ceiling tiles products facilities.
Easily the most used and specified ceiling system in the early days was by a country mile Armstrong ceiling tiles and grid.