Anyone ever install a glue up ceiling?

[TR Custom Parts]

Getting ready to do a major redo on the kitchen/dining room. New cabinets, peninsula, floor, crown moulding and a decorative ceiling.

I am removing the soffit above my existing cabinets, it just looks so 70ish. Only problem is I will have to sheetrock in the missing sections once the soffit is removed. There is now way I am going to match the existing ceiling so I was thinking about doing a ceiling with Armstrong #1243 12"x12" glue up tiles. No grid work and the are only 1/2" thick. They have a tongue and groove setup and when installed you can't see the seams.

Anyone have any experience putting these up? Hopefully my ceiling will turn out as nice as this. $1.45 a square foot so I am looking at about $400 to do this area.

 

[GN ERGY]

Besides the glue you have to nail it in the tongue and groove area ( so they can't be seen ) Rent or borrow an air nailer from somebody will make the job easier.
Tarey D.

 

[TR Custom Parts]

Supposedly with these you don't.

 

[charlloots]

make sure you snap lines to keep it square what we use is a jet line also to keep it square it could be a nigth mare you could be out a 1/16 on one end by time you get to the other side your out a inch it is take your time laying it out so there are no slivers against the walls

 

[charlloots]

basicly mark what you wanna do is start in one corner of the room take a measurement as close to the ceiling as possible. say 18 in off the wall (a tile and a half )make a mark on the ceiling and do the same thing on the otrher side of the room off the same wall and snap a line on the ceiling you can do the same thing off the other 2 walls with a different number say 12 in snap the line and check for square the way to check would be 3-4-5 start where the 2 lines cross measure 3 ft off 1 line and 4ft off the other then measure then measure the 2 marks you made from 1 to the other you shoul have 5 ft or within a half in depends on the walls .you would follw these lines for your seams on the tiles.what you would do with a jet line is a refference line different measurements off the walls say 36in off the the same wall on either end and hang the line about 3/4 below finish ceiling you can step down to make sure your running straight you hang the jet line where a seam will fall because the chalk lines will disapear the jet line will keep you straight hope this gives you some idea