Contractor-Friendly Wood Ceilings and Walls
BY ROBERT MARSHALL ON AUGUST 27, 2021
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Advances In Production, Product Design, and Contractor-Centric Service Reduces Lead Times, Labor, and Ordering.
With hundreds of finishes, sizes, veneers, and patterns available, the process for selecting wood ceiling and wall products has historically been daunting. How do contractors select the right wood products and installation methods to ensure a successful job that doesn’t break the bank?
This road has been especially difficult to navigate if working without clear direction from an architect or interior designer, or when asked to provide alternatives. But that’s exactly why manufacturers are focusing on new lines and novel approaches to take the guesswork out of the selection process. Product advances and support systems make finding the right wood ceiling or wall products a better experience for contractors by reducing lead times, installation costs, and minimizing ordering headaches.
Contractors can choose from standardized products featuring common sizes, materials, configurations, species, and finishes. Or, when the architect has designed to their heart’s content, they can find custom solutions with the guidance of skilled technical specialists.
Regardless of the product, standardized installation methods and the right support from trusted manufacturer partners make wood panels, linear planks, beams, open cell, grille modules, and canopies just as simple to install as other ceiling products.
Product Advancements Equal More Choices for Contractors
These products provide contractors with installation options and configurations to suit any project or application.
Contractors can find traditional panel products and select a common lay-in panel installation, venture into higher-end aesthetics with lift-and-shift semi-concealed panels, or choose large format, easy-to-install hook-on panels. Open cell, beam, and canopy ceiling products provide unique visuals, and often feature straight-forward, conventional installation methods. And many of these products rest in or attach to a typical acoustic suspension system, or directly to a substrate.
Linear plank ceilings provide a clean, continuous look for an entire ceiling or wall installation. “By moving from linear planks to panelized linear products, contractors can order panels that install faster than planks while maintaining the linear visual,” says Zachary Donahue, product manager for Wood Ceilings and Walls at CertainTeed Architectural.
Read more at: https://blog.certainteed.com/2021/08/contractor-friendly-wood-ceilings-and-walls/#prettyPhoto
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