Kitchen progress

[Mark T]

Now you know why I had to come to work to rest. We got about halfway through the house (doing the ceiling in the entire house) and got the lighting fixtures up. You can see where the war department tore the valance down above the cabinets, hence the thread about building new cabinets. That's next.

Ceiling is the 'Impressions' By Armstrong. 6" x 48" coverage. Kind of a fiber board with woodgrain imprint, prepainted white. Installed with 1/4" x 1" crown staples every six or eight inches. Modified the air stapler to shoot the staples flush instead of deep sunk. May have ruined the stapler for wood jobs, but for 20 bucks at Horrible Freight, who cares.

On the way home to keep on going.

S..E...N...D H...E...L...P....

[Mark T]

Hey, I never noticed the home improvement section until now. Will one of you gents move this thread over there?

Thanks,

[deepsplinter]

That's a good look.

Is it on furring strips?

How's the neck and shoulders doin'?

I've always said that there's two things that will test a marriage...remodeling your kitchen and going on a canoe trip together.

Keep us posted. This'll be interesting to watch.

[Mark T]

Whole body is is in turmoil. I ain't as young as I used to be... but there will be an end to it, I think.

Anyway, we did NOT follow instructions!!! See disclaimer at bottom of post. The photo shadowing looks like furring, but it is actually the tile groove side. The directions call for furring strips every 12". Problem with that was that the truss rafters in the house run the WIDTH of the house. This would have made for furring strips to be perpendicular to the trusses. That, in turn, would have meant the ceiling tiles would have had to be 90 degrees opposite of what they are now. We didn't want the tiles running in this direction. We wanted the long strips running down the length of the hall, an impossibility if the tiles were turned 90 degrees. So...

We are installing the tiles directly to the drywall ceiling. Supposedly, drywall has no holding characteristics. I experimented with a tile and the crown staples, shooting a tile to the ceiling and then removing it. I expected the staples to pull from the drywall when the tile was pried off. Not so. It held so fast that I ruined the tile trying to remove it. I also had to pull the staples with pliers, and they came out rather hard. Trust me, these tiles, anchored every six inches into the drywall with 1/4" crown staples, and also stapled fast to wherever a truss runs (we struck chalk lines for every truss) are NOT going to release. Another phenomenon that occurs is that the nails, or anything steel shot into or through drywall, has a tendency to rust slightly. This will only increase the holding power of the staples. So...

Directions be damned. I'll takes me chances. It looks nice and I expect it to last as long as I live there.

Disclaimer: "Do not try this at home". Your results may differ than mine, and I may have royally screwed up. However, I'm OK with it.

Oh, and my marriage is solid. Two words keep it that way: "Yes dear... yes dear... yes dear". ;D

Stand by...