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A false or suspended ceiling provides a way to obscure plumbing pipes while still allowing you free access to them. Unlike a drywall ceiling, a false ceiling allows you to remove the tiles at any time so you can perform repairs or examine the pipes. Before you install the false ceiling, you need to draw the dimensions of the room and plan position the ceiling's tiles and rails in the room. A worker at the store where you buy the ceiling parts can help you trim the rails.
Instructions
1. Mark on the walls in your room the height where the suspended ceiling will start. Ace Hardware recommends allowing at least 3 to 4 inches between the existing ceiling and the suspended one. Measure the appropriate distance from the room's floor or the joists above, then draw the line all the way around the room, using a level.
2. Attach the wall angle pieces to the walls, lining up the bottoms of the pieces with the level line you drew around the room. Either nail the wall angle pieces to the studs in the wall, using the mounting holes in the wall angles, or drive screws through the wall angles to hold them securely in the walls.
3. Mark the location of the main runner rails in the suspended ceiling, snapping a chalk line against the floor joists above. Measure from one wall in the room the width of the ceiling tiles and mark the first runner rail; then measure and mark the rest of the runner rails until you reach the other side of the room. Remember that the runner rails need to run perpendicular to the floor joists above the ceiling.
4. Thread eyebolts in every third floor joist where you marked with the chalk lines. Thread wire through the eyebolts and the holes in the runner rails, suspending the runners at the same height as the wall angle pieces, and twist the ends of the wire to keep the connections from coming loose.
5. Insert the hooks on the ends of the cross tees into the slots in the main runners. Space out cross tees to the width of the ceiling tiles.
6. Slide the ceiling tiles into the grid you installed in the ceiling, allowing their edges to rest against the main runners and the cross tees. Cut ceiling tiles with a utility knife, using a metal ruler to help you cut a straight line, to complete installation on the edges of the room.
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