100 sq. ft. White Surface Mount Grid Kit

Easy to install, easy to get into later, looks great. I needed to install a drop ceiling in the basement laundry room and bathroom. I got historic tin ceiling tiles and installed the laundry room with a traditional metal system with a 2 to 3 inch clearance in the lowest places. In the bathroom I have a partial drywall ceiling and could not easily remove it all due to a 2x4 lower frame behind which I would also have to cut out to get a metal suspended ceiling in at a good height. The ceiling is already low so I did not want a metal system causing to be even lower. I opted for this system and it went in great. I had a shower dividing wall I had to go around but all the seams look great (no gaps or unevenness). I placed a ceiling fan in one tile and recessed lights in two other tiles with no issues. I still have to take one tile down to put in a heating vent grate, but I know that will be easy now...

I recommend this product for patient installers. One must take their time, think through the installation, and measure exactly since your room is not going to be perfectly square.Lots of info here in case you're installing:1) Definitely center the full size tiles. It makes it look professional. I did and it does look nicer.2) the long tracks that installs against the joists (TOP HANGER) must be perfectly level (use shims) and it needs backing along its entire edge. When you push the final snap in that is the same length you need the TOP HANGER to not flex, otherwise the runner won't snap into place (that is step 5 Locking in The runner). So you must BACK the Top Hanger when you run it perpendicular to the joists.3) Somehow when screwing in the wall brackets, one area became lower than the TOP HANGER. so continually check for level. If I use this product again, I would cut all the crosstees so I can check for level as I put up the wall bracket. Remember the CROSS TEES hang down from the TOP HANGER and then on the wall brack they SIT on the BOTTOM of the wall bracket. The PVC tiles you might use have no weight to them, so there is nothing to help pull downward on the cross tees.4) Cut everything SLOWLY and use just a razor knife / carpet knife. Not the tin snips. I wasn't impressed with how the ends turned out. I also used a bench scroll saw on slow and that worked but the razor knife was cleaner.5) When putting up the last TOP HANGER, I put the cross tees in before screwing in the Top Hanger. This ensures that they are near perfectly the width of a full tile.6) There is NO wiggle room when the final runner (Step 5 in the instructions) is snapped in. at one cross tee (a full tee) it was off by about a sixteenth of an inch and it showed. This was where I was putting in the crosstee to make sure the TOP HANGER was perfectly aligned with the previous TOP HANGER. Not sure why it did that.7) Measure exactly. There is no room for slop.

I've been using this for multiple rooms in my basement, roughly 1500sq ft. Here's a few tips:1) Don't level the wall bracket separate from your floor joists. Push them all the way up to the floor joists, and shim if needed. Leveling them on the wall will cause your ceiling to look 'cupped' around the edges.2) Install blocking behing anywhere where 2 top hangers need to meet. You won't be able to snap them in properly if you don't.3) Install blocking behind the last top hanger, all the way across. Once you install the last tiles, you can no longer grab the top hanger to snap it together like previous rows. Installing blocking behind it insures you can push hard without moving the tiles. I wish I had known this when I started.4) The formula they give is for centering tiles in a square room. Make sure to sketch on paper first and make sure you like the layout. Skinny rooms will fail their formula. A better formula is to take their formula and apply it to BOTH directions in your room, which guarantees you will be centered in both directions.5) Buy cardboard construction shims to quickly bring joists in to level. Cheaper than thin stock and are fine for this application.

Great product. Was perfect for what I needed. I did the install myself and had about 400sq feet of ceiling and it took me 3-4 days total which included installing recessed lighting as well. I read reviews that this product is for rooms that are square shaped. I made this work with a ceiling with many angles and was an odd shape. I do wish ceilingmax would have a video for ceilings that are not square shaped because the formula can be tricky with a room of a different shape. You can see where the formula left me with a very slim section in the second pic where the ceiling width lessened. Don't mind the missing tiles in front of the stairs, I ran out lol. In the future I will take the shape of the room in account before using the formula on the video. Overall, its a great product that's easy to install and I plan on doing other areas of my finished basement in the near future.

All in all it worked ok, but snapping the track in was most difficult. A lot of the cross beams were different size causing the ceiling to not be square. The main track is plastic and not very sturdy. Get what you pay for. It looks ok but will eventually be replaced. Wish I had saved the money. I would never install in a main living space. Works for basement.

I am impressed with the quality thus far. I haven't fully finished the install but so far its been made very easy. The material is quite sturdy yet easy enough to cut. Only issue is I wish it came in larger sets as one box was not enough and 2 would be too much. Very happy with the product otherwise

I have a low ceiling in my mobile home and this was exactly what I needed.

This product works best when your ceiling is fairly level. Mine wasn't and took a while to create level grids.The instructions say to start from the center of the room, but that would've made it difficult to level the ceiling. The only criticism I could make is that the black runners could've been designed better. They're notched for t-bar every 2 feet, and the notch starts at 1-foot in (from the end). I ended up cutting off to the first notch to fit my tiles.The grid and black runners are best spaced according to your tile's width, not the t bar length. Once it's snapped in, that's pretty much it. Solid.Took a while to get my uneven ceiling levelled out, but it looks as good as any other drop ceiling I've seen, and it's solid. If you want squared and levelled, it's going to take a while longer to get it right.They should have started the t-bar notches on the very ends of the black runners. Start with 2 foot notches, because every ceiling tile is a multiple of 2. I used 2 x 4 tiles, which would've put the first t-bar notch at 3 feet in had I not cut it. Odd way to do it, but I made it work.Good product overall. Having a complete kit is worth every penny. That makes this ideal.

Slightly picky to get the last row of tiles in, but, this product worked absolutely perfectly for my extremely low roof basement! Once it's installed it looks awesome and the tiles are still relatively easy to remove if needed. We ended up doing the entire basement with these!

You need to follow instructions to the ! This company stands by their delivery as I had one bundle a little late but was followed up to my satisfaction. Looks great

Easy to install