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Default Can I install a ceiling?

On Oct 13, 10:43*am, stryped wrote:
On Oct 13, 11:18*am, Yooper wrote:

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:16:37 +0000, Doug Miller wrote:


If the trusses are spaced 4' on center, you have much greater worries
than any ceiling you might put up there. That's *much* too far apart to
adequately support the *roof*.


Did you mean 2' on center?


*4' centers are acceptable (at least in Michigan) for a metal roof.
*Not so with a wood roof and shingles, they must be 24".


They are 4 foot on center. Metal roof. Walls are 2x4 stick built 2
foot on center studs attached directly to a concrete pad. (I think the
pad is thicker around the perimeter.)

My concern was with 4 foot on center whatever I use for the ceiling
(osb, drywall, foam board, whatever) might sag? Is this true?


This is where you investigate a suspended ceiling with insulation bats
on the top.

Paul