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Highland Park New Construction Ceiling Panel Installation

SSDB Master Carpenter Mike Olson, Project Manager TJ Floyd and Construction Assistant Daeshawn Hemphill walk you through the installation of an antique ceiling panel in the dining room during the rough phase of a new construction home in Highland Park, IL.

Enjoy our video series of this new construction design-build in progress!

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Video Transcript

I’m Mike with Scott Simpson Design + Build. We were tasked with insetting this antique panel into the dining room ceiling. It’s solid teak, and it weighs about 500 pounds.

I’m Deashawn, and to prepare this panel here to go up on the ceiling, we had to take out these little hanging pieces that were already in there. So, we had to cut them and then push them out from the back so that we can get our lag bolts going through and we can get it hung up on the ceiling.

This is a 19th century ceiling panel from India. So, we had to engineer a way to not only get it up in the air, but then keep it up in the air so we’re not ruining the dinner party. So, what we did up on the ceiling is we used a series of engineered beams, lagged, glued, bolted into the structure of the house. We have three water lines going right through this area directly above the trusses. So, we basically had to straddle across the water lines and then bolt into the structure on either side of those lines.

This is all solid teak, very old, very hard wood. There was mortise and tenon construction everywhere on this with little floating wooden tiles, which on the front side had the little hand-carved flowers on them. Every piece here has etchings to label the part, probably all done with hand tools, very impressive.

We have these heavy duty lifts. Simply crank the handle and these are able to lift about 600 pounds apiece. We have two of them. So, what we’re gonna do to get this thing up in the air is these forks are reversible on these lifts. Lift it up, put saw horses underneath, drop the forks back down, reverse the forks so that they’re higher so that we can lift this all the way tight to the ceiling. That way these telescoping columns here don’t hit the ceiling before where we need to be.

We’ve got it into place. We’re gonna rely on our new lag bolts to snug this up to exactly where we need to be, which is flush with the finished ceiling here. So, we’re gonna check our perimeter measurements and then start driving lags.