For this to work youve got to first make sure your grid is 1516 wide.
What is the point of a drop ceiling. Drop ceilings also known as a suspended ceiling offer many advantages over drywall. Drop ceilings are cost-effective easy to install on your own and allow you to access ductwork and wires easily after its been installed. They were also popular in Australia where they were commonly known as pressed metal ceilings or Wunderlich ceilings.
These types of ceilings are common in both residential and commercial buildings. The drop ceiling tile is basically just sandwiched between the electric box and the cover plate of the fixture with an accurate hole cut in the tile for the box to fit through. However if your ceiling has a pitch greater than the slope your desired ceiling fans in-box mounting kit works with you will need a sloped ceiling adapter for.
A room that has a sloped ceiling shall at no point have a ceiling height less than 5 feet and no less than 50 of the floor area shall have a ceiling height less than 7 feet. Commonly used with noise-regulating acoustic ceiling tiles these flat drop ceilings allow designers to conceal mechanical electrical plumbing and lighting fixtures MEP above the dropped exposed ceiling such as pipes and wiring. You should order a special clip well get to that later to test that your grid is the right size.
Suspended ceilings are very popular in construction especially in offices and commercial structures. Screw in wire fasteners and wrap hanger wire securely around itself 3 times. A drop ceiling is a secondary ceiling that sits below your original and main structural ceiling.
Slope sometimes referred to as gradient in mathematics is a number that measures the steepness and direction of a line or a section of a line connecting two points and is usually denoted by m. Here you can see the track lighting we have in the kitchen and the screws that hold the face plate cover over the power box of the track lighting is screwed through the electric box just like normal. Wall or solid ceiling below a drop ceiling on various electrical junction boxes.
Its great for open concept because it helps create designated spaces within a large open concept living space. Many ceiling fans are designed to fit sloped ceilings with angles also known as a pitch up to 15 to sometimes 45 degrees. Thats a pretty standard size grid so youre probably in good shape.