A drop ceiling—also known as a suspended ceiling—conceals the plumbing or electrical work running overhead while allowing easy access to those elements in the future, should any adjustments or repairs ...

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It's time to bring some form to their function. In the balance of form and function, drop ceilings lean heavily toward function. “The pro is that they give you speedy access to your plumbing, ductwork ...

If a home has a basement, 99.9 percent of the time the ceiling will more than likely be cluttered with various cables and wires, plumbing runs, ductwork and any other mechanical system components that ...

Though suspended ceilings (above, right) remain the most popular ceiling system option, facility managers report that 17% of their total building square footage still features an open plenum ...

I need to run one Ethernet cable through about 15 feet of drop ceiling which will plug into a LAN port on a router into a port on a switch. Can I just run a Cat 6 cable through that drop ceiling?

The What: Revolution Acoustics has launched the Ubiqui-T360 ceiling tile mounting system for the SSP6 Multiducer, designed to bring the company’s constant-SPL planar wave audio technology to any drop ...

Hooks are normally attached to the structure supporting the drop ceiling (normally the steal beams, not the wire or threaded rod supporing the grid), then cabling run through them. If the drop ceiling ...