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   Sphere | Sep 02, 2007 08:22pm | #1

   There should be instructions in the packageing for your type.

   Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

   "If you want something you've never had, do something you've never done"

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   JeffBuck | Sep 03, 2007 03:27am | #5

   Armstrong has amazingly great instructions.

    

   seriously think outta all building products ...

   theirs for the ceilings are the best.

    

   cover just about everything in plain english.

   pretty sure it's all on their website too.

   Jeff    Buck Construction

    Artistry In Carpentry

        Pittsburgh Pa

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   RichBeckman | Sep 02, 2007 08:22pm | #2

   I'd run two main runners down the room 1 and 1/2 feet off opposite walls (four feet apart). Then fill in with the shorter pieces.

   Rich Beckman

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   RichBeckman | Sep 02, 2007 08:24pm | #3

   Oh yeah, I would cut the main runners so that there are attachment points for the shorter pieces 1 and 1/2 feet off the other walls.

   Rich Beckman

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   DanH | Sep 03, 2007 05:33am | #6

   Yeah, but do you run them in the 7 foot direction or the 7 foot direction?
   So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin

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   RichBeckman | Sep 03, 2007 07:49am | #7

   "Yeah, but do you run them in the 7 foot direction or the 7 foot direction?"Well, since he's using 2x2 tiles, you run the mains in the 7 foot direction.Now if he was using 2x4 tiles, then it would be different.

   Rich Beckman

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   BillHartmann | Sep 03, 2007 08:19am | #8

   I think that they should be run on the diagonal.They do that for floor tile, don't know why not for ceiling tile..
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   SamT | Sep 03, 2007 02:53pm | #9

   That should look pretty good. As long as you make sure you run the diagonals the same direction as the floor tile.SamT

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   MSA1 | Sep 03, 2007 04:30pm | #10

   Its a small bathroom, why not step back into the 80's and do a custom sized "Tetris" ceiling?

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   DanH | Sep 03, 2007 07:50pm | #11

   Well, not really the thing for one's first suspended ceiling. Maybe second or third.
   So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do. --Benjamin Franklin

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   Stilletto | Sep 02, 2007 08:31pm | #4

   On a 7x7 bathroom you shouldn't have to clip any main T's together,  I think they come in 10-12' lengths. 

   Install your wall angle,  measure your ceiling and layout on one of the T's so that the cut tiles on each end will be the same size.  Be sure to cut each main the same way.  This will insure that that your cross T's will be straight. 

    

   Matt