Are there any specific rules/regulations/guidelines for hanging stuff from suspended ceilings? Illuminaires, ceiling speakers, fire sensors all just mount on the tiles or clip into the latticework but I want to know about heavier things.
Reason I ask is that I occasionally work for a bloke who always wants to do jobs on a budget of a fiver[1] so corners are trimmed enthusiastically. The jobs are to hang 3kg devices off ceilings, be it plaster, beams or suspended. When it comes to suspended ceilings everyone else does it by going up to the "real" ceiling above and attaching a long pole which drops down through a tile.
The "Oh we've always done it this way method" is to place a square of ply the size of a ceiling tile above one, and mount to that, making a
600mm2 sandwich. I don't like doing it that way, but it does work.I don't like being ignorant and I don't do crappy bodges[2] so what does the team think?
[1] I suspect the only work that comes in is because he's so desperate to be the cheapest going. This works for Tesco but not for specialist installation. [2] I do inspired, inventive uk.d-i-y type bodges that you'd all be proud of!