Help finding the ceiling joists.
 

Hi,

I've a similar problem... I tried the multiple drill hole technique and found what I thought was a joist, but it seems to be a really thin strip of metal running the length of the ceiling. Has anyone got any thoughts this as I can't find wood? Only these metal strips...

Cheers

Help finding the ceiling joists.
 

Help finding the ceiling joists.
 

On 10/09/2016 23:07, wrote:
Hi,

I've a similar problem... I tried the multiple drill hole technique and found what I thought was a joist, but it seems to be a really thin strip of metal running the length of the ceiling. Has anyone got any thoughts this as I can't find wood? Only these metal strips...

Cheers



Thin strips of metal or thin strips of wood? What is the age of the
property? If 50 +years old it is probably lath and plaster

https://photo.mybuilder.com/2_thumb/...4e98d3bf17.jpg

If lath and plaster the wooden strips (laths) will be nailed at each
joist so the nails can be found with a metal detector.

Although not the cheapest, I recommend a Zircon M40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwmAME_Vw_E

That Youtube video also includes a demonstration about finding
the nails in lath and plaster

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Help finding the ceiling joists.
 

On 2016-09-10 23:07, wrote:
Hi,

I've a similar problem... I tried the multiple drill hole technique
and found what I thought was a joist, but it seems to be a really
thin strip of metal running the length of the ceiling. Has anyone got
any thoughts this as I can't find wood? Only these metal strips...

Cheers


Maybe not terrible helpful, but you can use magnets to find the metal
strips.

And if it's thin strips of metal, there probably are no actual joists
(in a suspended ceiling).

2p.

Help finding the ceiling joists.
 

Some of the office to living conversions seem to leave the old office
ceilings with metal strips between rectangular pieces of plasterboard or
similar and simply plaster over them to make it level. I call it a bodge
but there may well be wiring in the suspended part and its probably the
cheapest way, till that is you need to find something really solid to screw
to!

Brian

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On 2016-09-10 23:07, wrote:
Hi,

I've a similar problem... I tried the multiple drill hole technique
and found what I thought was a joist, but it seems to be a really
thin strip of metal running the length of the ceiling. Has anyone got
any thoughts this as I can't find wood? Only these metal strips...

Cheers


Maybe not terrible helpful, but you can use magnets to find the metal
strips.

And if it's thin strips of metal, there probably are no actual joists (in
a suspended ceiling).

2p.

Help finding the ceiling joists.
 

On 10/09/2016 23:07, wrote:
Hi,

I've a similar problem... I tried the multiple drill hole technique
and found what I thought was a joist, but it seems to be a really
thin strip of metal running the length of the ceiling. Has anyone got
any thoughts this as I can't find wood? Only these metal strips...

Cheers



It could be an acoustic lath ceiling ......... I fitted these in my
house, you screw clips on each joist with an acoustic pad between clip &
joist. Then clip in tracks at 90 degrees to the joist - screw fixing
ceiling boards to the tracks.

Makes significant difference to sound transmission between floors.