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
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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
Have a look at this :)
http://www.barrisol.com/php/canevas....s&page=diapo_1
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
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.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...resize%7E9.JPG
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.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2006/04/113.jpg
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 :(
suspended ceilings are horrible
At least they hide the crappy wiring, horrible masonry and dodgy roofing (until it rains).Quote:
Originally Posted by DrAndy
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.
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.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...i_thailand.JPG
There's a reason for that DD................................but only the Thai's know it. :D They never cease to amazeQuote:
Originally Posted by dirtydog
Next we have another stepped design just before they get the chance to finish putting the plaster board up.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...d_ceilings.JPG
Next up I noticed the plasterers have been in.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u..._01_resize.JPG
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.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u..._04_resize.JPG
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.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...hai_resize.JPG
Why don't you have female workers doing the plastering ? ;)
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 :)
Well today they were just finishing off and I got this action shot.
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...i_thailand.JPG
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 :)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...land_cline.JPG
yeah very nice, and only three and a half months since it was framed out.
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.
Anyway here we are at the same building but a few more pictures of his ceilings, nice aint they :)
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...truction_2.JPG
https://teakdoor.com/Gallery/albums/u...truction_1.JPG
People keep going on about how shite the standard of work is in Thailand but if your pictures aren't lying they show that a very high standard is achievable.
Nice work, class but not the sort of thing I would go for.
Jumbo
In the US 'suspended ceiling' would mean a ceiling made from tiles that are held in place by steel supports (much like you would see in a commercial store like Big C, Tesco, etc). Here we call what's in the thread 'raised' or 'vaulted' ceilings.
If it were me I'd lose the wood. It makes the area seem too dark IMHO.
Don't Thai plasterers use stilts instead of saw horses (that have to be moved around)?
sorry but in the us that would be called an acoustic ceiling, a sheetrock ceiling is known as a drop ceiling,people also call an acoustic ceiling an armstrong ceiling(thats the brand name), a vaulted ceiling is what you would find in a church.
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?
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 :)Quote:
Originally Posted by surasak
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.