Suspended Ceilings 10 - Installing the Panels

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Installing the full panels is as easy as just slipping them into the grid from below and dropping them into place. Be sure you wear clean gloves or have clean hands so you don't soil the white tiles.

The border panels will need to be cut to size. Usually the larger 24" x 48" flat panels require only a straight cut with a sharp knife or saw to fit between the grids and the wall molding.

The tegular 24" x 24" panels (tegular means two levels - or that the face of the tile is lower than the grid level). In this case you will have to cut in a flange on the freshly cut edge so it will fit the grid. To do this, measure the size of the opening plus the flange. Place this panel in position in the grid. The cut side without the bevel and flange must rest on the wall molding. Draw a pencil line where the wall molding meets the border panel. Be sure the opposite end of the panel is centered in the grid.

Remove the panel and lay it face up on a flat surface. Cut along the pencil line in such a manner that your utility knife (use a sharp one) only penetrates half the thickness of the panel. Finally, using your utility knife, laying it flat on the table, cut into the side of the panels, halfway through its thickness, to meet up with your original cut there by creating the flange. Now install this in your grid.

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