Suspended ceiling survey
Suspended ceilings room by room: tees, wall angle, hanger wires, 2 x 4 or 2 x 2 panels and the border panels.
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Ceilings
- Room
- GridChoices: 2 x 4 ft 2 x 2 ft
- Length (along the main tees)
- Width (across the main tees)
- Light fixtures in the grid
- Wall angle piece length
- Main tee piece length
- Ceiling area calculated
- Wall angle run calculated
- Wall angle pieces calculated
- Main tee rows calculated
- Main tee run calculated
- Main tees calculated
- Cross tees, 4 ft calculated
- Cross tees, 2 ft calculated
- Panels, 2 x 4 calculated
- Panels, 2 x 2 calculated
- Hanger wires calculated
- Border panel, along calculated
- Border panel, across (2 x 4) calculated
- Border panel, across (2 x 2) calculated
- Notes
About this template
Measure each room for a lay-in ceiling: area, 2 x 4 or 2 x 2 grid, main tees, cross tees, wall angle, hanger wires, panels and the border panel sizes, counted the way the grid makers lay it out.
Guide and sources
Add a row per room. Measure the length along the main tees and the width across them: the main tees run across the joists, usually parallel to the long walls. Pick the grid, 2 x 4 or 2 x 2, and count the light fixtures that sit in the grid.
The sheet lays the grid out the way USG, CGC and Armstrong do: main tees 4 ft apart and cross tees every 2 ft, from the room's center line, so the border panels are the same size on both sides and as large as possible. A room that is an exact number of panels gets full panels at the walls. It counts the panels (a border panel is cut from a full one), the main tees from your piece length, the 4 ft and 2 ft cross tees, the wall angle pieces from your piece length, and one hanger wire per 4 ft of main tee plus four per light fixture. The counts match CGC's estimating chart; check them against your plan on graph paper for an irregular room.
Keep at least 4 in between the grid and the lowest duct, pipe or beam (USG, CGC). Hang the light fixtures from the structure, or add hanger wires for them: never from the grid alone.
Sources
- USG, suspended ceiling installation guide Manufacturer data
- Armstrong, suspended ceiling installation Manufacturer data
- CGC, suspended ceiling guide Manufacturer data
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