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The Tuesday that kicked my butt with a simple ceiling grid layout
I had a job last week at a small office in Fayetteville where I had to do a 12x15 ceiling grid for a drop ceiling. Seemed straightforward but the room had two support columns offset by like 3 feet from each other. That threw off my main tee spacing on one side and I spent an hour just scratching my head over which panel size to cut. I ended up wasting four whole tiles because I measured wrong the first go around and cut them too short. The client was watching me from their desk the whole time which made me sweat even more. Finally got it sorted by dry fitting the perimeter angles before locking anything in. Has anyone else had a simple layout turn into a nightmare because of columns or odd walls?
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holly_sanchez7527d ago
Totally feel your pain on that. Just a heads up though, perimeter angles should usually go up first before anything else in a standard grid layout, so you kinda had the right idea with the dry fitting but backwards. Saves a lot of headaches (and tiles) to get those locked in right from the start.
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