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| Remove a Drop Ceiling |
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| Things
You'll Need |
Dust Mask |
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Safety Glasses |
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Plastic Drop Cloth |
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Utility Knife |
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Wire Cutters |
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| Solution: |
| If you have a drop ceiling, you'd like it removed, but you're intimidated somewhat to take it down. |
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Safety. Put on a dust mask and a pair of safety glasses, those tiles more than likely have a bunch of dust and dirt settled on them. So remove or cover anything you don't want to get dirty. |
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Carefully remove all of the ceiling tiles. Try not to tip them too much, this way you'll keep a lot of the dust in place. A tip, pile the tiles on a plastic drop cloth it will make it a lot easier to get them out later! |
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Use a utility knife to score around the perimeter of the room to minimize damage to the wall. |
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Use a wire cutter to snip all the support wires that hold the grid in place. Remove any of the pieces of the grid that are loose as you snip those wires. |
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Take the grid down; the pieces should separate easily from one another. |
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Unscrew the eyelets that were holding the wires. |
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The final step, if it didn't come down with the grid is to remove the "L" bracket that held the grid along the perimeter of the room. |
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Look how much this opened up the space. Now all you have to do is put in the new ceiling. |
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