The frames and grid arrays for dropped ceilings are generally made of metal. Dropped ceilings are typically associated with industrial or commercial buildings, or large-scale urban dwellings. There are however, dropped ceiling finishes that are suitable for homes. Dropped ceilings have the advantage of being easily maintained and repaired, and allow a great amount of freedom to rearrange ductwork and lighting. A finished ceiling height of 2.
These areas, along with non-habitable spaces, require a minimum ceiling height of 2. Consider your light fittings and other ceiling installations such as fans and ducting if you're considering installing a dropped ceiling in your home.
Drop ceilings were inexpensive and easy to install, allowing owners to quickly modernize the look and feel of their buildings. If suspended ceilings had never provided more than this primary benefit, they would still have been a significant improvement and a lasting success. But that was just the beginning. Brackets were soon standardized to the basic "T-bar Grid" configuration that we see today.
This new, uniform grid provided new opportunities to mount lighting, venting, heating and safety elements. The plenum area space between the structural ceiling and the drop ceiling , was soon being used for cold air return in forced air heating systems, replacing expensive duct work with simple flow-through grates.
The original gypsum panels, often 4' x 4' or even 4' x 8', were soon downsized to a more manageable 2' x 4' standard, and gypsum was replaced with the much lighter mineral fiber material that is still widely used in commercial applications today. These new drop ceiling panels, though brittle, dusty, and prone to stain and sag if they got wet, provided somewhat better acoustics than gypsum, and they were a bit more pleasing to the eye.
By the middle of the twentieth century, the now familiar "office style" suspended ceiling, made up of 2'x 4' white mineral fiber panels and 4' fluorescent lighting fixtures was everywhere; a clear reflection of both the efficiency and the conformity of that era.
At this point in drop ceiling tile history, function was still very much in the driver's seat. For decades the office style suspended ceiling was a virtual design captive of its own success. Because of its low cost, versatility and ease of installation, its esthetic possibilities were almost completely ignored. The idea that someone might install a drop ceiling because of how it looked, rather than in spite of it, was unheard of.
Now that has all changed, and designers, architects and DIYers have a whole new interior landscape available - a "fifth wall" that can unify, expand and enhance the decorative themes of any space.
Without sacrificing the all important function of drop ceilings, form has now come into its own. Want a custom coffered ceiling without the custom costs? With today's common 2' x 2' suspended ceiling grids and lightweight tiles - no problem. Would an antique tin ceiling fit your project but not your budget? Now you can choose from modern tin or modern materials that are better than tin because they are easier to use and maintain, and you won't have to pay antique prices.
Do you want the beauty of hand sculptured plaster, but know that you can't afford it? Thanks to modern molding and manufacturing techniques, now you can. With literally hundreds of styles in a variety of materials from a score of good manufacturers, there is now a suspended ceiling tile available to meet every taste, setting and budget. The initially used suspended ceilings were not considered to be as effective as they are now.
They were built using interlocking tiles. Thus, the area over the tiles was rather difficult to be accessed or inspected for repair or any other purposes. If there are was an issue in the area above the ceiling, it could only be accessed by following a daunting process.
This process was initialized by starting from the tile that was located at the edge of the ceiling. After removing the tile at the edge, other subsequent tiles were removed one by one to reach the place that required inspection or repair.
After the repair work was completed, all the tiles that were removed to reach this place were to be reinstalled. Thus, it was an expensive and a rather time consuming process that proved to be full of hassles and required ample efforts to be completed.
Donal A. Brown from Westlake filed for a patient on September 8, , for constructing suspended ceiling that offered easy access to areas above it. The biggest plus point of this innovation introduced by Donald A. Brown was that the need of starting with the edge tile or key tile to access the desired area was eliminated.
Thus, instead of removing numerous tiles to fix one, one could have a direct access to the tile or the area above it that required repair work. This patent by Brown was granted on 23 rd May However, the first fully developed grid system concept was introduced by Remmen Bibb.
He filed for this patent on October 24, The modular ceiling was first introduced by Wong, who owned Cepco Manufacturing. In this innovation, he integrated the use of tiles and grids for creating a suspended ceiling. Furthermore, suspended ceiling framework supporting electric lighting fixture was introduced by Fuss in Back in the day, when there was no electricity, suspended ceilings were installed solely for the purpose of adding value to a room and for enhancing its look.
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