Red Echo

January 27, 2014

American Tin Ceilings makes a variety of pressed tin ceiling panels called Snaplock which are designed to be installed over plaster or drywall. Ordinary tin ceilings are designed to be installed on furring strips or plywood: rather more work.

3 Comments

  1. One of my friends has those. You need high ceilings or the room gets really dark. But they’re awesome.

    Comment by Anonymous — January 29, 2014 @ 7:57 am

  2. I was thinking of this for a bedroom, so it’s OK if it gets a bit dark. The cool part is that the normal-height ceilings in my house’s bedrooms are actually drop ceilings, presumably installed back in the ’70s – the original ceilings are still there, behind 18″ of empty space!

    Entirely removing the drop ceilings sounds like a bigger job than I can tackle, since I’d have to repair the walls, and at that point why don’t I just rip the whole room down to the studs and start over…

    but I think I could saw a big square hole in the drop ceiling, leave it in place for 6-8″ around the edges, add some trim, and call it a soffit. Then I could install the tin plate on the original ceiling above, and light it up indirectly using LED strips mounted on the back side of the soffit.

    Comment by Mars Saxman — January 29, 2014 @ 10:50 am

  3. Oh god, please take out the drop ceilings! Maybe do one room per year to make it easier. Giant pain in the ass, yes, but it will look amazing.

    Comment by Anonymous — January 29, 2014 @ 4:09 pm