Few Beneficial Tips for Installing Grid Ceilings and Advantages of Grid Ceilings

A grid ceiling is also known as the secondary ceiling; this ceiling is always fit below the primary ceiling. They are commonly known as dropped ceiling. These ceilings are used by modern builders, architectures and also the interior designers and these types of ceiling is now very common and they are found in all the types of buildings may it be commercial or residential.

Grid Ceiling

This ceiling is the modern-day ceiling, initially it was used in hiding all the pipes, wire and the duct work. Moreover, they were used to give easy access for repairing and also for inspection of the tiles. Initially the dropped ceiling was built by using tiles which interconnected with each other and the tiles were fitted in a way that it used to start from the edge of the ceiling, so it became a very difficult process to reach the designated tile all the tile and had to be removed starting from the edge of the ceiling. Once the inspection was done, these tiles were re-installed. The process was neither time saving nor inexpensive.  Thus, with the invention of modern grid ceiling it was easy to access desired place without removing other tiles.

A typical ceiling consists of grid-work of metal channels which has a shape of upside-down ‘T’; they are suspended by wires from the overhead structure. This ceiling consists of squared shaped cells which are snapped together and all the cells are light weighted. The grids are of type “standard 1” and they are concealed grid. The size and dimension varies from place to place and country to country, their smallest dimension is 595mmx 595mm. Grid ceiling has its own advantages. Below mentioned are a few of them

Advantages of Grid ceiling:

• Glows with metallic: It creates an eye-catchy ambiance pressed metal ceiling! With this ceiling, you can capture more than the bit of sparkle and these panels can be easily decorated, there are authentic patterns available in this type of ceiling such as patterns in chrome, steel, brass and copper metal finishes and paintable white.

• Makes it look elegant: You can stretch your decorating boundaries with this ceiling.  This is very unusual and dramatic, but these ceilings add depth to your room and make it look taller. You can install 2 x 2 grid system and it can be painted to match any decor.

• Affordable warmth and style: it just adds the right flair in the house. They are available in wide ranges of styles and textures, and the panels are designed to match the room decor. For the perfect complement to traditional setting, we should use these types of ceilings.

Grid Ceiling

• Fire safety: The ceiling can be mounted underneath the water sprinklers which can look very attractive. These ceiling tiles are mainly made up of fibers, plastic, or tin. Some tiles can provide the needed additional resistance to meet the time rating required for various fire codes and some other building construction regulations.

• Acoustic: In the home theater, game rooms or any other room where noise is very high, this ceiling absorbs 70 percent of the sound, this is a very striking feature. They reduce the echo and prevent the sound travelling to the adjacent room.

Most commercial establishments prefer this type of ceiling because of its utility and we can now see many online sites selling these ceiling grids. All we have to do is place an order and we can easily fix this ceiling, it fulfils the criteria of looks as well functionality which makes it more preferable than the fixed ceiling. This ceiling is now used in all the designed house and grid ceilings are playground for all the interior designers, they decorate and modify the ceiling and use it in their designs.