My apartment used to be a business premises before it became a condominium. In the apartment, there is a lot of technology in the ceiling, including ventilation and water pipes. I have now started furnishing one of the rooms and plan to lower the ceiling. It is a room about 1850x3500mm where one long wall is concrete (against the stairwell), the corresponding long side is wood (wooden studs, plywood, and gypsum). The two short walls are double gypsum on steel studs.
I have used 45x70 wooden studs, building a "frame" around the entire room at the desired ceiling height, just below the lowest pipe, an insulated cold water pipe. I have framed at 600 centers, creating a span of about 175 cm for the studs. I attached a stud on top of the construction that I've then attached to metal straps in the ceiling to prevent the ceiling from sagging due to gravity.
Since it is quite a narrow room and 3500 becomes a convenient length for standard building dimensions, I am considering just screwing up 3 pieces of 12.5x1200x2400 gypsum boards, which can be cut at 1850. Gyprocs ErgoLite weighs just under 20kg per board. But I have read that you should have smaller c/c when installing gypsum in the ceiling. How important is that? It seems entirely unreasonable in my head that it could start sagging in a dry indoor environment if you go with 600 centers, especially considering lightweight gypsum.
I would appreciate any tips regarding both the construction itself but also about c/c for installing gypsum in ceilings. Has anyone tried this with "light" gypsum, or the regular kind for that matter? What do you knowledgeable people out there think? 😀
I have used 45x70 wooden studs, building a "frame" around the entire room at the desired ceiling height, just below the lowest pipe, an insulated cold water pipe. I have framed at 600 centers, creating a span of about 175 cm for the studs. I attached a stud on top of the construction that I've then attached to metal straps in the ceiling to prevent the ceiling from sagging due to gravity.
Since it is quite a narrow room and 3500 becomes a convenient length for standard building dimensions, I am considering just screwing up 3 pieces of 12.5x1200x2400 gypsum boards, which can be cut at 1850. Gyprocs ErgoLite weighs just under 20kg per board. But I have read that you should have smaller c/c when installing gypsum in the ceiling. How important is that? It seems entirely unreasonable in my head that it could start sagging in a dry indoor environment if you go with 600 centers, especially considering lightweight gypsum.
I would appreciate any tips regarding both the construction itself but also about c/c for installing gypsum in ceilings. Has anyone tried this with "light" gypsum, or the regular kind for that matter? What do you knowledgeable people out there think? 😀
Yes, it is available in 1200mm. Their website was a bit cumbersome but here it is: https://www.gyproc.se/produkter/gip...r/gyproc-ge-13-ergolite#marketing-descriptionmaah said: