Ceiling Alterations


Choices for metal ceiling designs are diverse, plentiful and multiplying. Extra large panels are available, ceiling planes can be folded, perforations and open area can vary. Light fixtures and custom colors provide more alternatives.To get more news about Metal mesh curtains, you can visit mesh-fabrics official website.

Considering the steady flow of new products entering the marketplace, there’s no indication the expansion of options is stopping anytime soon. To help navigate the sea of choices and identify the best ones to meet aesthetic, performance and budgetary goals for projects, metal ceiling manufacturers provide consultation and technical services.
Relative to coverage area, David Bailey, director of engineering, specialty ceilings at Malvern, Pa.-based CertainTeed Corp., says, “Size it up. Metal is an eye-catching ceiling material in its own right. Customize your look even more by leveling up in size and scale. Some manufacturers offer uniquely large-format metal panels, even as massive as 4 feet wide by 8 feet long, to achieve sprawling, monolithic looks that shine with appeal and demand attention.”

Similarly, Michael Corpolongo, head of product management at Rockfon in Chicago, says, “I think it’s tending toward the monolithic.” Instead of 2-foot square or 4-foot square panels, some projects have used 4-foot by 10-foot panels, he says. Others have utilized long plank panels, 2 feet wide by 6, 8 and 10 feet long.

One reason large panels are used is to maintain some of the look and feel of ceiling panels in smaller spaces in spaces with high ceilings, Corpolongo says. “It could be a really high ceiling space, but [designers] still want to have that feel of lines. But if you go to a small standard 2-foot by 2-foot and it’s a very high ceiling space, it kind of disappears. So they want to increase that size to get that same kind of a feel of creating lines in the ceiling.”
In terms of ceiling planes, there are options to shape them into forms with depth instead of leaving them flat. Ceiling planes have been folded in a variety of ways for projects that have come through Armstrong Ceiling and Wall Solutions’ You Inspire Solutions Center in Lancaster, Pa., says Daniel Holdridge, manager of the center. “A trend that we’re seeing is where [designers] take ceiling planes and instead of just being a flat ceiling or sloped ceiling, they’re creating these triangular planes that come together. It just gives the space this really cool, modern feel to them.”

One way to create a folded ceiling plane without making the entire system custom is to use standard panels for the interior of a ceiling and custom trim pieces cut on-site for the perimeter, Holdridge says. “The panels are all the same, and they’re field cut. So there are different things like that that we can do and explain to designers up front.”