Woodshop Ceiling Suggestions??

[Doug Filo]

If you watch Menards will have a metal sale on there panels and will overlap with the 11% off I bought it a couple years ago I can't remember what the actual cost was but I purchased it Easter weekend.

[Tony Roun]

Steve, I built my barn a few years ago and I installed a metal ceiling, and am very happy with it. There is an Amish supply store in my area and they make sheets of ceiling material specific to customer requests. I would think you would want to run your metal ceiling perpendicular to your truss direction. That is what I did. I assume for you that means you would run the metal ceiling in the 32' direction. I ordered my ceiling material to be 16'2" long so I had an overlap at the truss that they met. That would work great for you with 32' dimension. Use a drywall lift and the sheets go up very easy, I did my barn ceiling alone in this method.

Thank you all for the information. Hopefully soon, I can get started on this project. For those that have metal...or the like...as there ceiling material--which direction did you run your material? My barn is 24x32 with the large sliding door on the 24' side and a man door on the 32' side. Not sure which direction to run the metal to be more aesthetically pleasing to the eye.

[William C Rogers]

Steve, I know this is a long shot. I got my ceiling tiles free. A construction crew was repurposing a closed Borders building. When they do that they gut everything ceiling included. They let me have as many ceiling tiles as I wanted. I had to buy the rails around $150, but I am very happy having a drop ceiling. My ceiling is 12'. I bought a HF drywall lifter and used scaffolding to install. Since I have 12' ceilings I use the HF lift to put things up on high shelvees. I realize this is a "right place" thing, but it happened for me.


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[Martin Wasner]

Steel spans trusses 4' oc no problem.

[Steve Goetz]

Tony, what is the spacing on your trusses? Did you have to put in any blocking?

[Tony Roun]

Steve my trusses are 2' on center because I have an upstairs, but I only screwed the ceiling material to every other truss because it doesn't need anything more than that. I have seen it installed on 4' OC trusses with no issues. I did not need any bridging because I went perpendicular to the trusses which is the best way to install IMO.

[Steve Goetz]

Thanks all for the insight. I didn't realize that I could span steel siding 4' O/C without problems! I think this is the way that I'm going to go. Doing the quick math, Durapanels through Menards would cost less than $500....I couldn't hang and finish drywall for that.

[Ed McEowen]

I have 4' spacing on my trusses, and my ceiling (in the shop). I used 26 ga. galvanized steel roofing panels (which I had just removed from a roof) to cover my ceiling. A friend and I put up the 1000 sq ft ceiling in 8 or 9 hours using roofing screws. Blown-in fiberglass insulation sits on top of the tin. I'd do it again in a heartbeat - no disadvantages. Reflects light well too.