Drop ceiling. That’s a panel and there’s 1-2 ft of space between it and the real ceiling. It’s much easier to run your utilities there than in the walls, and the panels make it easy to access.
With all the horror stories I heard about issues with leaking pipes or faulty electrical circuits requiring ceilings and walls to be torn down, the real question is why we don’t do all the ceilings and walls like that.
Drywall is so cheap and easy, and leaks and failures so infrequent it doesn’t make sense to have “easy access” to the interior of walls. Drywall is the easy access.
It’s not a suspended ceiling, it’s a concrete slab. It’s probably a prestressed concrete slab and the lines are the individual panels. It could be poured in place but I doubt it as that would require a ton of form work and be very slow and expensive.
Drop ceiling tiles are so fragile and ugly. Very laborious to install. Guests would do stupid things, like lift them up to snoop and put tuna cans up there and other nefarious stuff. The stack of tiles needed to outfit a hotel would be massive. To think drop ceilings are used in hotels defies logic.
Drop ceiling. That’s a panel and there’s 1-2 ft of space between it and the real ceiling. It’s much easier to run your utilities there than in the walls, and the panels make it easy to access.
With all the horror stories I heard about issues with leaking pipes or faulty electrical circuits requiring ceilings and walls to be torn down, the real question is why we don’t do all the ceilings and walls like that.
This is rhe same reason I will never buy a house on slab: gotta hammer up the floor, fix, repour and refloor if you ever need those pipes down below.
So you want a basement on dirt? So you can’t use the space for anything?
A lot of contemporary homes are built on hollow foundations with an accessible crawlspace for utilities.
Oh, crawl spaces are pretty rare further north because you need to be under the freezing level of the ground anyway so people have basements.
Drywall is so cheap and easy, and leaks and failures so infrequent it doesn’t make sense to have “easy access” to the interior of walls. Drywall is the easy access.
Certainly easier than plaster and lathe. Patching that shit is terrible.
Yes, this answer. Try hitting it (don’t). Also reduces heating costs in old properties with high ceilings.
It’s not a suspended ceiling, it’s a concrete slab. It’s probably a prestressed concrete slab and the lines are the individual panels. It could be poured in place but I doubt it as that would require a ton of form work and be very slow and expensive.
A drop ceiling would have a little metal frame that the panel sits in.
Drop ceiling tiles are so fragile and ugly. Very laborious to install. Guests would do stupid things, like lift them up to snoop and put tuna cans up there and other nefarious stuff. The stack of tiles needed to outfit a hotel would be massive. To think drop ceilings are used in hotels defies logic.