Coastline Contractor Services LLC
Demolition and Acoustical Services for Central Florida
Now, Specialty Ceilings can sound as good as they look, delivering the same noise control as classic acoustical ceilings
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Adding walls underneath and existing ceiling can get pretty messy. Often times drywall finishers leave rough edges and may get mud on the existing ceiling grid or tile. Not a detail that you want to leave for your Owner.
Let’s introduce Trim-Tex “Mud on Ceiling Bead”.
Once the drywall is hung, staple this trim onto the head of wall against the existing ceiling and finish the wall. You’ll be left with a tear away leg that will clean up any mud left on the ceiling trim and a clean look that your Owners will love.
Contact Coastline Contractor Services for answers on any ceiling transition questions that you may have.
Related: Don’t Screw into the Grid!
Imagine – your are doing a renovation for a customer that changes their spaces constantly adding short walls for modular offices that may change in a year. The usual answer is “screw the top track to the ceiling grid” – we say “Don’t Do It!” there is a better way…
Armstrong manufactures several accessories just for this situation. The “Partition Head Fixing” Clip or BP UPC AG is used to attach metal or wood top track to the ceiling grid without damaging the painted face of the grid.
In the future when those wall have to come down – the Owner will have no need to replace ceiling grid. Simple and effective. Next step: add a “wall molding” to you modular wall – see how.
Contact Coastline Contractor Services to purchase your Partition Head Fixing clips today – (321) 288-7009
Scott and Pamela Gordon paid a little under $5 million for a home in Windermere last year. Come tax time, they expect to get back about $66,000 for tearing it down.
That’s because the Gordons, who are spending more than $4 million to build a new home on the site, took down the original home using a method known as “deconstruction.” In this process, a crew carefully dismantles an older property by hand instead of using bulldozers. The process costs more than a straightforward demolition—the Gordons paid more than $20,000 for the disassembly, roughly double what they would have paid for a wrecking crew. But they were able to donate home materials such as lumber, roof tiles and even lamps to nonprofits for reuse.
The donated materials were appraised by an appraisal-and-consulting firm at $159,000, which the Gordons can apply to their tax bill to receive a deduction. Based on the Gordons’ tax bracket, Ms. Gordon estimates that will ultimately work out to a savings of around $66,000, or more than three times the cost of the deconstruction.
“We’re not the kind of people who just come in with a bulldozer and clear a house out,” says Ms. Gordon, whose husband is a venture capitalist. And since deconstruction ended up paying for itself, it was “not a hard decision” to pursue it. The Gordons are now building a five-bedroom, 7½-bathroom, 6,000-square-foot modern Mediterranean home that they expect to be completed late next year.
CAC stands for “Ceiling Attenuation Class” – this measurement rates a ceiling structure’s efficiency as a barrier to airborne sound intrusion between two closed rooms, over the speech frequency range. It is an especially significant measure in providing acoustic privacy between adjacent work areas, where sound can penetrate plenum spaces and carry to other spaces. CAC is stated as a minimum value; CAC minimum 25 is acceptable in open plan offices, while a rating of minimum 35 to 40 is preferred for closed offices.
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