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Message started by kennymack on Nov 12th, 2007 at 11:04am

Title: PLASTER TILES
Post by kennymack on Nov 12th, 2007 at 11:04am
We have tounge and groove plaster tiles throughout our house,big heavy things,and having just converted a new room we need these tiles put up to form a new ceiling,trouble is i havent got a clue how to do it.
Does anyone know how to,or someone who will do this for me? (for payment of course)
Many thanks

Kenny

Title: Re: PLASTER TILES
Post by Nigel on Nov 12th, 2007 at 5:31pm
Having had my head in a few ceilings I can tell you how they fasten them.  Basically they either drill holes through the vegas, knock holes in the red 'pots' or fix hooks to the underside of the floor above.  They then suspend the tiles on wires. To stop them moving they dunk some straw (grass or fiber of some sort) in yeso and dollop it onto the top and bottom anchor points and between adjoining tiles. The tiles should have some form of metal hook or bar in the corners to allow you to suspend them.

To allow access at a future point in time you can cut the tongues off of one tile (plus its adjoining tiles) and yeso a couple of wooden bars across it. This you can manipulate through the hole and lower into place. I've had to cut through a few where this hasn't been done - quite messy and prone to the tile breaking.

Hope this helps!

Nigel

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