slats

Slatted ceilings underway on the ground floor.

This last month I have been working on making the slatted ceilings for the ground floor.

I have been making these in sections and focusing on the areas around the smoke detectors and sprinkler heads first. This is for two reasons: these areas require a ‘solid’ area with no gaps between the slats around each of these components of a minimum of 300mm in each direction. This is to divert smoke towards the detector for example.

To do this I have cut shorter pieces of the same material and screwed them together, working from one end to the other, with 2mm gaps between formed from rigid plastic spacers and finished on the lower side with an EDPM strip, so once the slats are all stained these will read like small shadows between the individual pieces.

In these images you can see the cable for the smoke detector hanging down in the centrally cored hole.

We are spacing the slats just a few millimeters of each side wall, again leaving a small shadow, so as the walls aren’t precisely plumb in places each slat has been measured, cut and labelled individually on the rear.

Moving down the hallway to tackle the area with the sprinkler head next… I’ll then be able to place all of the individual slats between with even gaps, spaced between these two more solid assemblies. In these photos you can see the orange sprinkler pipes highlighted by the black ceiling above. In the last shot you can see the black cable tray above the slats.

One final image here of the glass being installed in the recess in the kitchen - props in place!