If you don t mind the ceiling looking like a commercial building a drop ceiling is an economical coverup.
How to hide floor to ceiling pipes.
The project involves installing a grid system and placing ceiling tiles into the openings.
Ceiling pipes plumbing lines air ducts and electrical pipes they are important for the appropriate functioning of the power heating cooling and drainage systems in our homes.
Depending on where these pipes are running like vertically down a small nook you can purchase or build a book shelf to hide them.
Rather than allowing ceiling pipes to remain an eyesore in your home or basement apartment use creative methods to hide the pipes.
Instead of trying to figure out how to hide exposed pipes show them off with these 13 creative ways to make exposed pipes chic in any room.
Let s say you re looking to box some pipework in from the floor to the ceiling in the centre of a room.
If you re looking to box in pipes underneath your boiler over a worktop in the kitchen measure from the bottom of the boiler to the top of the worktop.
Nov 7 2016 explore rachel waddington s board hiding pipes on pinterest.
Take the whole measurement of this length from the floor to the ceiling.
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I live in a basement apartment and have already covered the livingroom ceiling pipes by dropping the ceiling.
Alternatively you can cover unsightly ceiling pipes in your basement with drapes or screens that you make yourself.
You could hire a builder to cover them with sheet rock but you ll most likely pay quite a bit of money for the work.
If you build it yourself you can make it floor to ceiling and create a cavity in the shelving that leaves room for the pipes without eating up extra floor space.
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Cheap ceiling tiles for a drop ceiling.
Looking up to the ceiling only to have your gaze met with unsightly pipes can make a room quickly lose some of its appeal.
I cannot drop the ceiling in the bedroom.
Fortunately there are a few solutions for hiding the ceiling pipes from view.
Ceiling pipes are often found in basement areas providing plumbing to the rest of a home or building.
The drapes or screens will cover the entire ceiling of the basement which will hide ugly pipes.