So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Drop Ceilings And Drop Ceiling Panels Getting To Know Them

By Myrtle Cash


The structure of a suspended ceiling consists mainly of metal channels in the shape of an inverted ''T''. Overhead hanging wires supported by wires from overhead structures suspend this. Other names have been used to describe drop ceiling panels including false coverings, t-bar coverings or suspended coverings.

Usually a cover consisting of a lightweight sound absorbing material covers the structure. These covers are known as ceiling panels or board tiles. At inception, the idea was for dropped boards to cover the underside of the floors above them, offer a balance of sound, and moderate it in the rooms. Overall, the design and purpose of these paramount boards has developed dramatically.

Manufacturers of house covering tiles take into consideration a variety of things when coming up with interior designs. Normally some of these include fire safety ease of modification during construction, aesthetic appeal and cost value. The rage of panels available in the market is currently very diverse. Compliance with fire safety requires most tiles to be made of mineral fibers or fire rated wood panels which when used for construction comply with fire standards. Decorative tiles are often used to increase visual appeal of ceiling tiles.

The tiles provide the needed additional resistance to meet the time rating required for fire codes, city ordinance, commercial or other similar building construction regulations. The United Kingdom requires certain tile manufacturing factories to attach into the grid some tiles with unique clips to offer a reasonable fire rating. Nonetheless, there are specialized tiles manufactured for the underside of mezzanine floors, which have the ability of giving a fire rating without having to be clipped.

Where manufacturers create easily modified tiles, they offer easily removable ceiling tiles. They grant instant access and easy access to the plenum and therefore greatly simplify repairs and alternations. With wiring and piping installed behind traditional plaster or wallboard roofing accessories, it is difficult to access them for repair without causing damage.

Dropped coverings are very adaptable and allow for modifications to the building plans to be made quite easily. The entire house roofing accessory plan of these coverings can be modified to fit a person's desires. This is because these elements can be taken apart and reconstructed to form structures in different places these structures. Its ease of removability allows construction workers to take it apart and put it together in different areas. The space left behind when these structures are removed can then be utilized to create other structures in their place.

A number of disadvantages are however seen, lack of overhead headspace is one of these this is because of the magnitude of the structure. The frame panels also take up available space. The minimum space requirement for ceiling is about one hundred to two hundred millimeters between the obstruction and the level of the covering grid.

Drop ceiling panels are a quick inexpensive method of repair for renovation and reduced overhead cost. They however have a tendency to age quite quickly. They are often discolored by excessive exposure to smoke. With time, they tend to sag at the centre and are easily damaged. In older buildings during renovations, it is quite common to find drop boards requiring reinstallations.




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