ceilings

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    Asbestos Artex Ceilings and Wiring in Suspended Ceiling for Bathroom

    Hi, I live in a property built in 1911. It has had asbestos artex applied to every ceiling in the house. I am currently creating a new bathroom, which will have 4 downlights, 4 low level lights on motion sensor, an extractor fan, an LED mirror, wall mounted toothbrush charger, and a shaver...
  2. cliffed

    Cabling above suspended ceilings

    Cabling above suspended ceiling the 600x600mm type tiling ceilings. Basically cables routed above ceiling’s no fixings, laid on top of framework, the gap above the tile is approximately 50mm, nearly impossible to get tile out. The Install of these cables between 1969 until present day, I’m...
  3. W

    Lath and plaster ceilings

    Can you normally fish from room to room above a lath and plaster ceiling? Ie if you’re trying to get a cable between all detectors but there’s no access above can you normally fish between rooms?
  4. P

    Cable collapse with false ceilings

    Related to another post, I am looking at running some network cable across a corridor above a false ceiling system. Is the ceiling support system considered adequate to prevent premature cable collapse in the event of a fire? My immediate though is it has to be, otherwise the support system...
  5. T

    Led panels in false ceilings

    Hi can any one tell me if led panels or led recessed lights in a false ceiling need fire hoods? Massive void above false ceiling to ro the roof School premises manager
  6. stidge

    MF ceilings and fire containment

    Hi all , just quoting for some flat/apartments which will all be concrete ceilings with a 150mm MF ceiling , plaster boarded and skimmed . I’ve not done any for a few years so want to know what the minimum is now for fire containment? Is it acceptable to tie to MF rods with metal tyraps ? (...
  7. C

    Them wooden things in the ceilings

    Hi, I feel over the past few years more people are moving towards recessed downlights, on new builds its easier as you can mark out while there is no ceiling and know where they will land. But when retrofitting i have a hard time missing all the joists, are those stud finders any good? Or does...
  8. MrGwythers

    Led strip lights on ceilings

    Looking for info on led strip lighting on ceilings with the coving profiles. How would you hide the driver and the cable to the strip light. Would you have the driver above ceiling and just chase the cable from driver to led strip into the wall so it comes out of the wall above the coving. I'm...
  9. O

    Vaulted ceilings and downlights .............

    The room is approx 5.3 meters long, about 3 meters wide and along the centre of the pitched ceiling (which is flat) is about 3.5 meters The client wants downlights .... in the centre of the flat section of the pitched ceiling. Concerned about the spread of light ..... Looking for...
  10. Gavin John Hyde

    Different types of plaster in ceilings

    Been installing downlights today in a kitchen and dining room. nothing fancy electrically speaking but a pain in backside as one part is new the other old. The new is bog standard plaster board. the old is lath and plaster. Using charcoal in the plaster so its like concrete. makes repairing the...
  11. B

    1st flats with concrete ceilings

    Looking at a job first fixing flats with concrete ceillings, to be lined with mf ceilling system. How do you guys support cables in this scenario? Just clip up to concrete, or some more elaborate solution? Tray seems kind of ott, but would be a good solution. Cheers
  12. T

    Re suspended ceilings thread and the mess in it, before and after

    Just a little update as @marconi expressed it may be interesting to see before and after on sargasso sea of cables above ceiling.
  13. O

    Vaulted ceilings ..... late decision .... grrrrrr

    working on a bungalow to chalet conversion and the customer has just decided that all the upstairs rooms will have full height vaulted ceilings ....... it’s all latest spec insulation so how best to run the feed and loops around between the switches ? So no lofts ...... Where are safe zones...
  14. P

    I hate lath and plaster ceilings!

    I balls up this week because amongst other jobs I quoted to move a ceiling light for a customer, and having done lots of work in houses nearby with standard platerboard ceilings I assumed this was the same (big mistake). What a nightmare it was filling in the holes as there was no access from...
  15. Gavin John Hyde

    Whats your method for holes in ceilings

    Been fitting some new lights today in a Georgian townhouse that has been converted to apartments. Finding the unexpected in these old buildings around Bath is nothing new. Took the old light down and the hole in ceiling is 4 inches across at its widest part, good point was I could get my arm up...
  16. D

    Channelling cables in the plaster of ceilings

    I have been doing some subbying work for an NICEIC approved sparks. He will channel out the plaster of ceilings to run new cables in. For example, today there was on light in a ceiling in an corridor and we were removing this and replacing with 4 spotlights. So the spark said to take out the...
  17. the pict

    Lath ceilings

    The above, dont you just love them all crumbly and dusty, especially when shower pull switches are attached and you have to take them down to do IR cos of the bloody neon, why cant the little red lens be detachable then we could kill the bloody things with something pointy, then put the lens...
  18. cliffed

    Lathe plaster ceilings

    Fitting of recess led lights into lathe/plaster ceiling,becoming a right pain.Holes were drilled during 1st fix with hole cutter to suit size.When inserting fitting,springs take out load of plaster,which actually just falls away,so looks crap.Decorators not too pleased,lighting consultant also...
  19. P

    eicr advice

    Hi guys, i did an eicr today in a house, theres a few things needing attention but the main one is that whoever fitted the majority of the lights has not connected the earths and has cut it back too far to allow connection, what do i mark this down as c1, c2 or c3. I dare say the client is not...
  20. A

    Wiring lights in flat with concrete ceilings

    Started A job today, concrete ceilings, and was thinking of ways to get the cables from switch to pendant, and thought of chasing the plaster and artex of the ceilings, and glue gunning the cables up and bonding/plastering over, do you think this is do-able? Don't really want to trunk it, thanks

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