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I used painted steel barn siding fastened to the trusses with self-taping screws.
The steel comes 3′ wide and can be ordered in any length you can handle.
Around here it will cost about $1.75 per lineal foot. It’s not cheap, but once installed, no painting or finish needed.
Note: In very large and tall rooms, the steel will reflect the noises more than a drywall or wood ceiling, although I recently did a 50 x 50 workshop with 10′ ceilings, with no problem with noise.
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Hi, I am putting together a shop and we need a low cost covering for the shop ceiling. It is a truss roof, 3 in 12. We are putting salvaged fiberglass batting of about r 23 or so. I think plastic might cause condensation to drip on the machines. The shop has a cement slab floor and will be wood heated in the rainy N.Cal winter. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks
*fire safety first.....drywall or wood...not plastic....aj
*Link,If you just want something to hold up the batts, try chicken wire. But remember, it will trap saw dust.Ed. Williams
*My point exacltly Jack. A suspended ceiling grid with FR/FG panels, and drop-in troughers would be easy and reasonable if not cheap.
*In commercial installations, foil is most common. You will find it in 24" wide rolls just for this purpose.
*I used painted steel barn siding fastened to the trusses with self-taping screws.The steel comes 3' wide and can be ordered in any length you can handle.Around here it will cost about $1.75 per lineal foot. It's not cheap, but once installed, no painting or finish needed.Note: In very large and tall rooms, the steel will reflect the noises more than a drywall or wood ceiling, although I recently did a 50 x 50 workshop with 10' ceilings, with no problem with noise.