Published at Friday, November 16th 2018. by Denise Shaffer in Ceiling.
Ceiling scape in the basements. We have ceiling scape because there are so many situations where our ceilings going to be higher and then lower. Now out in this big section that I'm standing in here to the left side of that red beam there, this whole side of the basement, the left of the stairs it's going to be a full height, nine-foot ceiling, there's nothing in my way, okay! Well, for the most part, there's not, there is some ductwork right down there that I'm going to build a soffit around, but for the most part, this whole side is going to be one high 9-foot ceiling. Then I've got a 16-inch duct trunk and then I've got about thirty. Two more inches of duct trunk and then back out here I've got gas lines and finally, I have a high ceiling with nothing in my way. So what am I going to do here? Well, I'm going to build underneath the gas line. All these ducts I'm going to continue across right underneath that PEX, the water lines right, underneath the sewage line and right underneath the steel making that one lower section of the ceiling from the steel beam the whole way out to the end of my gas lines right there. The gas lines, and then from the gas lines over to the exterior wall, which is about another six feet, I'm going to go back up full height with mice, with my drywall ceiling right to the bottom of that floor, joists all right. So I have an upper ceiling just about six foot and I've got a lower section.
Well, I do high-end work with a lot of recessed lights. This basement is probably going to have 25 recessed lights. I like to see real drywall wherever I can. So that can be painted and look like the rest of the home, and you really do have to stand back. Look at the big picture and design your ceiling scape from maximum height and straight crisp lines. All right, you don't want to be up and down up and down everywhere. Okay, I wouldn't come across underneath this ductwork and try to go back up there, where I have a little bit of space between those red and blue pecs lines in the ductwork. There's not enough space there are only two feet: it wouldn't be worth all the aggravation, so you really have to think about keeping it simple getting as much as you can in each soffit and maximize your height, wherever you can all right now that that lower section is Soffit right there from that corner there right out to that edge right there in front of the recessed light. Was that section of lower ductwork? It was about 16 inches deep, we boxed it out, and then we went right back into the next section of the soffit, which was that first 12-inch steel beam that we saw that was up there stairs here and show you this okay.
So when you come down the stairs, what we did was we angled this down and moved it out just a little bit further, actually out to the end of that column right there, and that gave us enough Headroom here and I'm reaching my hands straight up over My head full extension here and I'm just able to knock on that. So there's plenty of headroom there for a tall person. I mean you could be 75 and still walk down these steps, and then you can see. We've got a from the one red steel beam right over to the other red steel beam that was there. We just went straight across all right, so that's how we hit the two, the two red beams and then back out here on the other side as I said earlier mm, this is all one big pie, nine-foot ceiling cuz.
There was nothing in our road over here. So we were able to frame that or not have to frame that at all. Rather, we just put the drywall right to the bottom of the floor, joist right now out here where we went from the red pecks and the sewage line that was up there and there were some wires and other stuff up in there. We lower the ceiling again right out here to the edge here where we go back up again. That soffit turning out to the end over the top of the refrigerator and balanced out those windows and then turning back around this way, you can see that lower soffit runs the whole way down to the other end of the basement up to the finished wall. And then we have the high section of ceiling that runs the whole way the whole way down the basement down to this end to this soffit.
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