Today we started to put up the beams and woodwork ready for the false ceiling, which is going up in the kitchen. We are putting in a false ceiling for a number or reasons.
1) To insulate the kitchen from the concrete roof, the solid concrete absorbs a lot of heat from the sun which is then radiated out into the room. adding the false ceiling and insulation will stop the room form heating up in the summer and loosing heat in winter.
2) Appearance, the existing roof is quite rough on the inside and to make it good would have required a lot of plastering, Plus there is also the beam along then end of the room which supports the chimney, the false roof will hide all this.
3) Electrics, it is so much easier to run the conduit on the roof, that have to chisel it in. Also using a false ceiling gives us the ability to use recessed LED lighting.
To start with we put the two beams on each side of the room, this wasn’t easy due to the bad state of the walls, if you are lucky you can drill into something solid, if not we tried to use a compound to glue the raw plug in place, which was a bit of problem, but we figured out a reasonable system and finial got the beams in place.
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