August 2004 - editor. Installing a ceiling in the cool thai house prototype project, in Pattaya, Thailand. A sample ceiling installation showing the various materials and stages of installing a sheetrock ceiling.
The ceiling is a full 3.2 meters from the floor. It is nice to have high ceilings, but 3 meters or less is sufficient. At 3.2 meters, the ceiling fans are little too high to get the air circulating and changing a light bulb can be challenging. The drywall sheets come in various grades with one grade suitable for damp areas. In this house, a good grade is used, but not the one for damp areas.
There was a specialty company that came by to tape the ceiling. In the meantime I did have a chance to observe an specialty company that does nothing but ceilings. Their prices were quite low and they did really nice work quickly. For example, on one house I looked at they did a multi-level ceiling which looked very nice. On future projects I would look to use a specialty company for the ceiling.
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