Drop Ceiling

[Chad S Fisher]

Looking for opinions of any issues I may run into that I did not think out. Since I did the walls in Knotty pine I continued with the ceiling as well. However I wanted to the ceiling to be removable since it is the basement and in case I ever needed access to anything. I found some tight knot cedar 2x4's that I used to construct a type of drop ceiling. With a regular 2x4 cut down to 2", with glue and screwed onto the the cedar to give me a type of track to lay the knotty pine planks into. I used floor joist hangers to install onto the main for joist.

Anyone see any issues with doing this?

[Jim Becker]

I think that was a very creative way to deal with the ask of beautiful and flexible.

[William Fretwell]

The only issue is you can see the cedar supports. My brother in law has a low basement. Too low for me but he is shorter. I lent him my pin nailer to hold the staggered boards in place so it would look just like your walls. If you want to gain access you just pull down a section, remove the pins with pliers & re-pin it back up. It means there is nothing to bang your head on in his case.
My issue; he never returned my pin nailer. He just ripped down a whole corner for his kitchen reno so it may be years before I ever get it back!

[Aaron Conway]

Looks really nice and I like that you can see the supports...breaks up the space.

[John Terefenko]

To me wayyyyyyyyyyy too much knotty pine. Would not have been my choice but to each his own. Looks like it works. If you like it that is all that counts

[Jerry Olexa]

Nice solution....Good idea.

[Tony Pisano]

I like it. I did a similar project where I needed to be able to remove the ceiling for pipe access for when I redo an upstairs bathroom. The house is 1874 built and I wanted to keep a rustic look. I saved joists and planks that were removed and made t-shaped strips for ceiling supports, leaving the old lath and plaster marks. Tongue and groove boards for the ceiling panels. The t strips are held in with c-sunk deck screws. Remove 2 screws and you can take the whole panel down. They also make good "secret storage spaces" not that I have anything worth hiding.