cable tray

We’ve now started the cable tray prep for the dropped ceilings.

This week we’ve also been working on the cable tray preparations for the dropped slatted ceilings in the central ‘cube’ articulated core. We always wanted to have the services exposed in this area, as it made sense to us to keep the services running below the intermediate floor to ensure the performance of the acoustic components of the floor build up. It was quite an expensive system and the last thing we wanted was to reduce the impact by making lots of holes in the floor construction, which would introduce flanking noise transmission paths, and make it difficult to fit the acoustic insulation properly.

All of our lighting cables in these areas are to be supported on cable trays suspended from the Fermacell ceiling on threaded rods. These photos show the priming and spraying black of the cable tray so that it receeds when viewed from below, and make the slatted ceiling the prominent feature! More on this later….

In the guest room ensuite we are lining the ceiling with more of the same timber flooring we are using on the walls, but this time we have cut slots to accommodate the LED strip lights we are going to make. This will make the lighting really discreet in these locations, and the solid dropped ceiling here covers a multitude of sins, but more importantly prevents the steam from the shower from avoiding being extracted by the MVHR. The orange pipe in the third photo is the sprinkler pipework.

The routed slot you can see here is to accommodate the channel for the shower curtain track.