I’m framing a part of a tray ceiling in a couple of rooms. The tray detail starts a foot below the main ceiling, comes out level two feet from the wall, turns up 30 degrees, and runs to the main ceiling.
Most of this detail is created by the roof trusses… 24″ OC with no sheetrock backing to support the horizontal joints in the board. I framed out the adjacent walls in the same manner, in accordance with the owner’s wishes. The rocker came thru today and I asked him if he needed backing installed from truss to truss to support the joints. He mumbled something about tape-on cornerbead but did not seem sure that would work. I suspect he is leery of telling the owner to spend more money by having me block the whole thing.
Whaddya think? Blocking or no…
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Wouldnt you want to strap the whole ceiling? 24 oc is bad enough, say nothing about tricks.
-zen
Edited 6/28/2005 9:44 pm ET by zendo
I did a trussed roof with a tray like the one you show. I consider the trusses a starting point, and "stick" in the perimeter at all the transitions, including inside-bevel hips at the corners.
Gene Davis, Davis Housewrights, Inc., Lake Placid, NY
The inside corner 'hips' are exactly what I'm doing. The trusses only create the tray on the north and south walls, so I'm doing the east and west plus the corners.
Oh... and the places where the got the trays in the wrong place... I'm doing those spots too.
I definitely think the blocking oughta be there. Not familiar enough with 'tape-on' cornerbead to know whether or not it's considered a glue joint of sorts in the sheetrock world.
The tape on corner bead that I use for other than right angle corners is a Sheetrock brand "Flexible Metal Corner Tape".
Comes in a 2" wide paper roll, has 2 metal strips glued side by side with about a 32nd between them. Fold it over in the middle like you would regular tape for an inside corner and you get a stiff corner bead to use on any corner angle, inside or out.
I wouldn't consider it a glue joint as such, just another product to get a crisp straight edge on an odd angle. Also good for beading an arch.