Suspended Ceilings

Depends on who you ask:

Ace Hardware Suspended Ceilings

With the homebuilders I worked with before what constituted a 'suspended' ceiling to them was the ability to remove panels for access to what's behind the ceiling (such as pipe, wire, etc).

Just a variation on terms that all mean the same thing, obviously. Since we build with wood here generally for homes a ceiling like what's shown here would be raised up above the level of the rest of the ceiling and thus be a raised ceiling/vaulted/depending on the builder. I had forgotten that small fact when looking at the photos the first time.

Acoustic ceilings are generally 60 by 60 cm panels that are not made from plasterboard, or dry wall in the US I believe, in the old days and probably still in the UK a lot of cielings are just nailed up to the next floors joists, but since the introduction of "C Line" the aluminum system which is a suspended system, most ceilings can now be refered to as suspended ceilings.

I somehow missed the concrete walls/ceiling in the photos; that's what threw me off. Since the walls were painted I was thinking it was all drywall (on steel or wood frame) and that the ceiling was a normal drywall ceiling with a raised center portion.

My bad.

Speaking of drywall how well does it hold up in the humidity?

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Originally Posted by surasak

Speaking of drywall how well does it hold up in the humidity?

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Indoors not to bad actually, normal damage is done from roof leaks after the first couple of years of being up, outside roofs they don't fair so well but should be good for 8 to 10 years, but hell they are cheap to replace :)

Is the leaking due to poor construction, heating and expansion, or just they way it is in LOS?

Poor construction plus the heat plus lack of upkeep, in the UK most people paint the exterior of their house every couple of years, here they don't do fok all and then complain when things deteriorate, also like sundecks here need working on every year here, the customers think it will last for 10 years without upkeep, they don't realise how much damage the sun does.