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smo1722

Ok guys the is my first post on this forum... i am having a condo refurb done in pattaya, i would like any info pics espically to show the archtiect etc design's for a suspended ceiling.
Thanks in advance
smo1722

dirtydog

Have a look at this

http://www.barrisol.com/php/canevas.phtml?type=flash&langue=english&rubrique=p hotos&page=diapo_1

Thetyim

Do you mean the aluminium strips with the square sheets sitting in them or something more up market.

This is LOS, not many builders work to a plan

dirtydog

Ok here is a picture of the c line stuff, this is aluminum and you wop the sheets of plaster board onto them, nice quick and easy, and about 250baht per meter.

Triton

We used this stuff on the walls in the restaurant. I think its main role is as suspended cieling frame. Galvanized steel. The shop also sold the screw thread rods for suspending and other relevent fittings. If I remember right it was cheap at around 250 baht per pack, 10 2.4m lengths per pack C channel and a bit cheaper for the less rigid U channel.

We covered it with accoustic board sheets 60cm x 60cm and they were imported from the states at 60B per sheet retail. Plain sheets were cheeper and fancy designs were up to 120B per sheet I think.

RandomChances

We've got a crappy suspended ceiling. I'd never have one again, not living out in the sticks anyway. You would'nt belive the ammount of things living in it

DrAndy

suspended ceilings are horrible

buadhai

At least they hide the crappy wiring, horrible masonry and dodgy roofing (until it rains).

I cringe every time I have to go up there. And, that's before I start worrying about the critters that might be living above.

dirtydog

Anyway once you got all your framework up now is the time to stick up your plaster board, this is just screwed onto the framework thru the plaster board, as you can see in this picture they never bother staggering the sheets for some reason.

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billynomates

There's a reason for that DD................................but only the Thai's know it. They never cease to amaze

dirtydog

Next we have another stepped design just before they get the chance to finish putting the plaster board up.

dirtydog

Next up I noticed the plasterers have been in.






Having the boards not staggered must make it a right pig of a job to plaster, at least when they are staggered you have one nice straight run to tidy up your 2 curves.

dirtydog

OK the picture you have all been waiting for, yep, a Thai man actually working, I had to sneak up on him cos it is a well known fact that these animals will on seeing someone freeze and then smile.

lom

Why don't you have female workers doing the plastering ?

dirtydog

Na they don't do it topless if thats what you are thinking, but we could come to some sort of arrangement but it would cost more than your normal plastering charges

dirtydog

Well today they were just finishing off and I got this action shot.

dirtydog

This picture is of the above ceiling now completely finished, as you can see this is not your normal run of the mill 250baht per square meter ceiling, this is real class

flash

yeah very nice, and only three and a half months since it was framed out.

dirtydog

The people that fitted the wooden furniture finished the cielings, there is a few million bahts worth of furniture made for the place, ie 4 bedrooms all fitted out, all bathrooms fully fitted out with made to measure furnishings, I shall post some pics of the kitchen later on just to give you an idea of the amount of money that has been spent on this place.

dirtydog

Anyway here we are at the same building but a few more pictures of his ceilings, nice aint they