Did you know that the daunting suspended ceiling has so many benefits?

Suspended ceiling is an important construction content of basic decoration carpentry.

Many people are afraid of the suspended ceiling. They are worried that the suspended ceiling will occupy the height of the house and create a sense of depression. They are also worried that the money spent will not produce any output and will not achieve good results. In fact, suspended ceilings have many hidden functions, and rational design and use of suspended ceilings have many benefits.

The benefits of suspended ceilings, especially flat sheds, are as follows:

1. Ceiling equipment and pipelines can be hidden.

Including central air conditioners, duct machines, fresh air hosts, bathroom heaters, ventilation fans, blowers, as well as fresh air, air conditioning ducts, audio lines, monitoring lines, light lines, etc., especially when there are many lamp points, the original It is very inconvenient to have slotted wiring ducts on the shed surface, which highlights the hidden function of the suspended ceiling. Of course, you can also hide the sliding door threshold, curtain rods, curtain tracks, etc. As shown in the picture at the beginning of the article, if you open an upward groove at the installation location of the sliding door track, the upper door frame of the sliding door can be perfectly hidden.

Let me show you what is hidden in part of my ceiling~

2. Use gypsum board ceiling to replace the original shed surface and manually level it. When the budget increase is limited, the shed surface can be greatly improved. Flatness.

Many people think that the cost of a suspended flat roof is very high. Indeed, if you choose a decoration company, the unit price of a suspended flat roof is indeed higher, but what is easily overlooked is that the actual cost of a suspended shed is not Low, because the construction difficulty of flat sheds is lower than that of side sheds. Therefore, many companies price flat sheds based on square meters, while side sheds are priced based on linear meters. You can roughly calculate the price difference based on the quote from the decoration company you choose, based on a 20-square-meter living room.

Due to the generally mediocre construction quality of the house during the construction stage, the original roof and walls of the house generally have large errors (the height difference between the lowest point and the highest point of the ceiling in my living room is 5 cm, and the height difference in the bedroom (Also nearly 4 cm). If you do not choose a suspended ceiling, you will need to level it artificially through gypsum board and plaster scraping at the oil stage. Manual scraping is labor-intensive and tests the skill of the workers. It is lucky to encounter workers with good skills, but it is normal to encounter workers with average skills. If you are curious, you can turn on the ceiling lamp at home (many homes do not have suspended ceilings and usually have main lights) and see if there are wavy light and shadows on the ceiling of your home? That is the result of the uneven shed surface.

3. Large-area suspended sheds add more possibilities to lighting design.

Lighting design is usually the most overlooked item in home decoration. During the decoration process, I found that the lighting design of commercial decoration is much better than that of home interior decoration. When we walk in shopping malls, stay in hotels, many newly renovated restaurants, and even see many external lights on buildings, they are actually the effect of a combination of various types of lights: embedded spotlights, track lights, virtual light strips, tubes Lights, etc. Different lights will create completely different atmospheres. These often require the cooperation of suspended ceilings. A deep ceiling (generally no less than 8 centimeters deep) can basically be embedded with various types of spotlights to make indoor lighting more layered, focused, and change in light and shade, improving the sense of luxury and comfort in the space. Compare the lighting effects of a bedroom with only one ceiling light (usually a white ceiling light with high color temperature...) and several spotlights in the bedroom. Is it clear at a glance? To borrow an advertising slogan: Without lighting, no matter how good the decoration is, there will be no effect. The suspended ceiling is the foundation that gives lighting more possibilities.

The pictures will be useful once you use them. You can browse the pictures on the Internet at will. There are many comparison cases~

4. The thermal insulation effect of the top floor;

The house will always be There is a top layer, and the reason why we don’t like the top layer is largely because the top layer is cold in winter and hot in summer, and there is a risk of rain leakage. The suspended ceiling of the whole house forms an air layer partition, which can alleviate the cold winter and hot summer to a certain extent, so it can be used as a bonus function of the suspended ceiling.

(Digression: Of course, I personally think that the heating of the house still needs to be solved by heating. As for the problem of hot summer, everyone is also very hot... As for the problem of rain leakage, do a good job in waterproofing the roof. It can be solved, and the leakage does not really depend on the top floor, the leakage on the side walls and outdoor insulation layer is often more common and serious)

Supplementary supporting materials:

20191113 Starting with a new instrument, Hikvision's handheld infrared thermometer can display the maximum, minimum temperature, average temperature, etc. within the irradiation range.

The importance of suspended ceilings is proved through imaging.

In the four pictures below, in pictures 1 and 2, the temperature is low in the darker areas, the cat’s nose is wet and cool, and the feet are warm, which shows the distribution of heat on the cat.

Figures 3 and 4 show the temperature difference between the ceiling surface and the original ceiling exposed from the ceiling opening with the windows closed and open respectively. On the top floor of my house, the test results are particularly obvious. When the window is closed, it is obvious that the color inside the hole is dark, the temperature of the ceiling is very low, and the temperature of the ceiling is basically the same as that of the wall. Figure 4 is a test with the window open at night. After ventilation, the surface temperature of the ceiling decreases, and the temperature of the ceiling in the hole decreases. Slightly higher than the suspended ceiling.

The thermal insulation of the suspended ceiling is self-evident.

5. The well-proportioned suspended ceiling reduces depression and visually increases the height of the house;

The main reason why many people do not choose suspended ceilings is that they worry about being depressed. In fact, rationally designing the form and height of the ceiling will visually enhance the spatial hierarchy. If the ceiling of the whole house has no undulations and is just a flat shed, it will naturally reduce the overall indoor height. However, if the multiple forms of side sheds and flat sheds, high and low sheds are staggered, and flat sheds with narrow side troughs are combined, the suspended ceiling in the home will appear full of vitality and more lively. There is no sense of depression at all.

As far as personal experience is concerned, under good lighting conditions, the living room after the suspended ceiling reaches 2.4 meters will not feel short, and some areas such as corridors and corners can even reach 2.3 meters. Below, the height of the bathroom ceiling is 2.2 meters, which is completely acceptable.

The actual ceiling dimensions of my home are: 2.44 meters in the living room, 2.34 meters in the dining room, 2.2 meters in the bathroom, and 2.23 meters in the corridor between the living room and dining room, which is very comfortable. (The living room is located in the south, and the dining room is located in the north. The south window is 6 square meters and the north window is 4 square meters. The transparency is very good)

6. Strong aesthetics.

There is no need to say more about this last point. Depending on the home decoration style, different forms of suspended ceilings can present various aesthetics. But I still have to express my point of view: round ceilings and colored ceilings should be used with caution. They must be designed by professionals or have successful cases that can be copied. Otherwise, if they are not done well, it will be self-defeating and one ceiling will ruin everything~

The above content was shared by Haohaozhu user Yu Jiaergouzi, I hope it can help you~