The ceiling "Grilyato": the pros and cons

Today, many commercial premises for various purposes attract the attention of the unusual futuristic design of the ceiling space, created with the help of open-air hanging structures of Grilyato, which are made in the form of monolithic cellular slabs with integrated lighting.

Grilyato’s heightened interest of industrial construction participants in lattice ceilings explains their phenomenal durability, undemanding maintenance and the possibility of masking in the technological niche between the construction and the floor slabs of any engineering communications. Before buying, you should find out what are such systems, what are their capabilities, advantages and disadvantages, and also consider the key nuances of the assembly technology.

Grilyato is one of the varieties of the suspended type cassette raster ceiling system, which is a volume grille, which is produced on a thin colored aluminum tape. In accordance with the thickness of the metal and the size of the cells, the ceilings weigh between 2-6 kg / m².

Their design includes:

• Edge L-shaped profileswho are responsible for the formation of supporting frames at the right level around the perimeter of the room, ensure the quality of the docking of the ceiling with the walls.
• Different types of guides - longitudinal bearing, transverse support, intermediate connecting type father / mother - are used to assemble the power lattice frame. As standard, the metal grille consists of squares with a side of 600 mm.
• Cells ready slabs from a thin-walled metal profile, which can have dimensions of 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, 7.5x7.5, 10x10, 15x15, 20x20 cm.
• Unified system of fasteners in the form of spring hangers, by means of which the power frame at the points of the cross of the guides is attached to the base.

Ceiling systems Galyato - the invention of Italian designers, is widely spread in our country.Grilyato served as a prototype of the ceiling for such a trivial household object as a gazebo with a mesh ceiling area. Such gazebos at the expense of their lattice structure helped residents of the southern regions to grow grapes, performing several important functions at once. The mesh ceiling acted as a trellis, to which the vine clung to the whiskers, and provided access to a sufficient amount of sun, while protecting the climbing plants from the scorching sun rays.

In the 20th century, Italians became fashionable to decorate terraces with lattice elements, and later this idea was embodied in creating the hanging ceiling Grilyato, which owes its name to the Italian word grill - “lattice”. Grilliato technology was borrowed by designers concerned with finding a non-standard ceiling design solution.

In 1970, wood was used to manufacture such structures, and the use of aluminum for this purpose began to be practiced only later. The first samples of Grilyato suspended systems had a considerable weight, and their installation was quite expensive.

Today, this type of suspended structures is the main competitor of Armstrong mineral fiber ceilings, due to the many advantages of lattice solutions.

Advantages:

• Moisture and hygiene. These properties of cellular systems make them available for installation in rooms with high humidity conditions. Such structures are not afraid of leaks, pathogens, fungus and mold.
• Cellular structure provides absolute breathability inter-ceiling zone, due to which the expensive ventilation equipment fully works, and in the event of a fire, combustion products are easily removed.

• Good sound insulation qualities by equipping the grills with plates that absorb the sounds that accompany the work of climate control systems.
• Allow to hide power and communication cablesand, plastic pipes for water supply and heating, air ducts for exhaust or intake ventilation systems.
• Environmental friendliness. Aluminum, from which profiles and metal-rolls are made, is considered an environmentally safe material, excluding the release of toxic compounds.
• High reflectivity metal profile and advanced lighting design due to the variability of installation of electrical appliances.

• Easy disassembly structures for transfer to another area without losing the original appearance of the lattice panels and violating the integrity of the power frame. Clean installation, hassle-free transportation over long distances and good maintainability.
• Long service life - about 30 years, as in the manufacture of modern cellular systems using high-quality raw materials. Such aluminum is immune to UV radiation, it is highly resistant to corrosion and withstands sharp fluctuations in temperature.

Disadvantages:

• They are costing significantly more expensive than other ceilings, which is explained by the high cost of aluminum.
• The laboriousness of installing the ceiling in time, especially when winding corridors are sewn up, where you have to constantly cut off edge grids, rooms with niches or protruding corners and a lot of tie-in points for electrical appliances. All this leads to an increase in the cost of installation by almost 50%.

• Grilyato, contrary to popular belief, are not fire-resistant or fire-resistant structures, respectively, their installation eliminates the additional fire safety of the room. Fire-resistant structures tend to endure being in the epicenter of a fire for a specified time and not collapse.Fire resistant structures are able to remain in similar conditions while maintaining chemical / physical resistance and strength properties. Heating aluminum to 140 ° C provokes a loss of metal strength, and up to 660 ° C - a transition to a liquid state.

• The lack of full access to engineering systems, although many sources claim the opposite. Of course, a hand with a screwdriver or pliers will crawl into a hole of 20x20, but it will not be possible to produce high-quality serious repair and installation work. Grilyato only allows you to inspect the ceiling space without the need to disassemble the entire structure, as is the case with the Armstrong system. When faults are detected, it is necessary to dismantle the panels in the problem area, after which it is already possible to maintain the suspension system.

Suspended ceilings Grilyato classified according to several criteria. By type of construction, they are all-assembly and free-carrying. In the first case, cellular modules are attached to the penetrated power profiles by snapping.

Such ceilings are considered more durable, and visually they look like a plane with a uniform texture, due to the fact that the grating / power profiles have the same width.

Also, their cost is higher than that of cantilever solutions, installation is more difficult, and if necessary it is also difficult to get to the ceiling space.

These structures are installed using power T-profiles, and the modules are placed in the cells of the frame on the principle of plates in Armstrong systems.

Their purchase will be cheaper by 13-15%. In this case, you can safely carry out work in the ceiling zone, without fear of damage to the panels. However, visually T-profiles, separating the main cells with a side of 60 cm, will be well distinguished. Such a design may be contrary to the general concept of the room design, which may be a reason for abandoning it in favor of an all-assembly design.

Grilyato's grid ceilings are distinguished by covering profiles - painted, varnished, anodized or imitating the texture of any materials.

Depending on the performance of cellular modules, models are distinguished:

• in the classic version;
• created by analogy with blinds;
• with pyramid design;
• non-standard multi-level options.

When assembling classic lattices use U-shaped profiles. The dimensions of the cells should not exceed the height of the base by more than 3%, provided that the height of the walls in the room is a maximum of 3 meters. Standard systems have the ability to suppress noise coming only from the top down, with a propagation range of up to 10 dB.

Such structures are seamlessly integrated into any architectural solutions, they are simply assembled and are inexpensive, and this is due to their relevance.

The use of profiles with a Y-shaped section allows you to create cells in the truncated pyramid format, which illusively adds volume to the room by adding heights. Such models are most advantageous to use when designing the premises of complex geometry - with ramps, attic, multi-level ceilings, polygonal three-dimensional elements.

In this case, the ceiling-ceiling space is viewed significantly less than when installing standard models. For this reason, the cells of pyramidal models are allowed to have dimensions that are 8–10% higher than the height of the slabs.The level of noise reduction from top to bottom is up to 18 dB, from bottom to top - up to 12 dB. When installing pyramidal structures, it is necessary to be careful, as due to careless handling the grilles may bend.

Grilles, made by analogy with blinds, have a high density of cells. This is the most "deaf" kind of grilyato raster systems, which irreplaceable where it is necessary to close the subceiling zone to the maximum and ensure high-quality masking of communications. This applies to wide air ducts of a powerful ventilation system of supply and exhaust type.

Such ventilation systems are often installed in entertainment establishments, thanks to which non-smoking guests can “peacefully” communicate at the same table with smokers without interfering with each other. Blinds models also realistically imitate wooden ceiling. Although for installation Grilyato-blinds will have to pay almost the same amount as for the construction of the array, however, this decision in many cases is justified, because it allows you to become the owner of non-combustible, resistant to moisture and rotting ceiling.

The profiles of the "fathers" with the gaps in the upper part provide the possibility of attaching additional bearing elements, due to which the assembly of the following sections can be made by shifting the structure upwards.

This technology is used in rare cases, since the formation of protrusions with a pronounced height difference is a rather laborious process that requires the use of a large amount of expensive aluminum.

Therefore, when constructing multi-level ceiling systems, it is much more profitable to use the combined installation technology:

• To assemble the frame part of a multilevel gircual system, use С- / U-shaped galvanized profiles;
• plating of vertical surfaces - sidewalls - with plasterboard sheets;
• horizontal openings to use for the installation of the supporting frames of the cellular ceiling;
• the bearing frames are covered with gratings, placing electrical appliances under them.

Suspended systems Grilyato boast a variety of design solutions with different shapes of cells and colors. In addition to the choice of basic colors - black, white, beige, gold, chocolate, superchrome, silver and brushed aluminum, manufacturers offer models painted in RAL.

Someone wide palette of colors will finally help to abandon the boring monochrome solutions of ceilings in a monotonous white version, sometimes strongly dissonant with the original interior design.

You can order the ceiling in tone to the trade equipment, in a shade conforming to the general palette of the interior, or in the corporate colors of the company, which is always favorably perceived by regular customers and allows you to expand your customer base.

Initially, vapor-permeable suspended ceiling systems with sound insulating ability were used at industrial facilities, where it was necessary to place engineering systems under the basic basis without violating the building regulations and complying with fire safety requirements.

To this day, the manufacturers of the best Grilyato ceilings remain companies that manufacture fireproof building structures.

The widespread of the suspended ceiling Grilyato in some way contributed to the global recession of economic development, which came in the late 90s of the last century. A fierce battle for buyers unfolded between manufacturers. Leading companies puzzled staff designers to give utilitarian products decorative qualities, so raster suspended systems appeared in a stylish design that were not ashamed to be mounted in public places.

Modern Grilyato differ in universality of application.

With regard to the possibility of registration of the suspension systems of residential spaces, the solution of this issue remains at the discretion of users. If you are not confused by the "translucency" of the cellular structure through which communications can be seen, you have a room with high ceilings and are a fan of non-standard solutions in the interior, you can safely consider the option of installing Grilyato.

One of the advantages of Grilyato is the possibility of self-assembly, but not in the overall premises, but in an apartment. Before ordering the ceiling will need to calculate the required number of components for its installation in a particular room. Otherwise, costly material overruns.because rooms where the sides are multiples of 600 mm are quite rare.

The preparatory stage implies the need for proper distribution of lattice elements for cutting. To begin calculating the ceiling, they begin by drawing a grid with the arrangement of whole cellular fragments and panels for trimming. Mounting carrier profiles are calculated based on the design of the selected model of the suspension system and the grid pattern for trimming.

When planning to assemble the suspension system with your own hands, remember that when working with Grilyato it is necessary to strictly follow the assembly technology.Since the lattice profiles are heavy and brittle, a strong attachment of the load frame to the base is required. Grates are trimmed exclusively with a profile cutter.otherwise, it will turn out the ceiling with shredded edges, which then will be impossible to disguise.

Work order:

• Foundation preparation - cleaning, treatment with deep penetrating primer for concrete, coloring to match the profile. In a low room, the base is painted with dark paint.
• Marking the work surface under the edging: a control mark is placed in each corner, then the intermediate segments are cut off by means of a cord and the horizon level is set. Ceiling height space should be at least 20 cm.
• Installation of edging profile. When choosing fasteners - screws (minimum size - 16x4, 2) - and a step from 30 to 60 cm are repelled from the material of the walls. Installation on a concrete or wooden base is allowed to be done with a large step, and if the base materials are weak, then with a smaller one.

• Mounting carrier profilesstarting from the long wall of the room. After connecting the carrier and support profiles proceed to the installation of intermediate.In the process of installation, for each pair of spans, taking into account the step of 60 cm, there should be one suspension.
• Mount all suspensions on the base is done with screws with polypropylene dowels. At the same time approximately align the frame on the suspensions along the horizon line.
• The final exposure of the power frame in a horizontal position with subsequent fastening of openings 60x60 for installation of equipment for at least two suspensions in each corner located along a diagonal axis.

• Mounting fixtures, suspenders are used as fasteners.
• Build Incomplete Modules, size fit on site and final installation.
• Installation of complete grilles on a similar principle.
• Connecting lighting and testing the performance of the lighting system.

In order for the ceiling construction to get a finished look, it is important to correctly select electrical appliances. To solve this problem recommended to deal with spotlight spotlights, which are easily embedded in grillato lattices.

In addition to raster fixtures, single-lamp and two-lamp devices with a directional glow You can consider installing original fixtures with prismatic or opal diffusers.

To correctly select ceilings with cells and learn how to care for them, you need to listen to the following recommendations:

• In the ceilings of Grilyato, you can install ceiling lights to get interesting lighting effects or create original lighting patterns. The choice of such a lighting system solution implies the obligatory fixing of ceiling-mounted electrical appliances on a basic basis, since the structures are not intended for such additional loads.

• The transparency of the suspension system is influenced by the size of the cells in the modules. Through the large-cell model, all communications in the ceiling space are perfectly visible. When forming the cost, the inverse relationship becomes crucial: the smaller the cell, the more expensive the ceiling. Here it is important to find a compromise solution - the optimal combination of price with the masking ability of the ceiling.
• Grilyato will long please with a mirror shine under the condition of systematic wet treatment using any non-aggressive detergent.
• When installing Grilyato in apartments, it is important to ensure that the design takes on the appearance of a full-fledged decorative module, which is facilitated by the additions in the form of solid hi-fi inserts and a closed frame.

• The Grilyato upholstery of the entrance area, where drenched clothes, shoes and umbrellas often dries is more advantageous than the Armstrong installation, whose plates can swell from the fumes that accumulate in the interceiling zone.
• In bathrooms, the arrangement of the water-resistant Grilyato system, although justified, does not prevent condensate from entering. Since the distillate contains dust, over time the ceiling will lose the original brightness of the color, and stains will form on the surface. Therefore, it is better to install a free-standing structure in bathrooms or toilets, where modules are easily removed for cleaning.

The photo selection includes the original design options for ceiling spaces with Grilyato cellular systems:

• Grilyato ceilings can be integrated into many modern interior styles - from avant-garde and minimalism to hi-tech and loft, as well as classic ones.

• The ideal places to install Grilyato are garages and work rooms.It is in the interior of such premises that designs with chased geometry, adjusted proportions and concise design will be most welcome.

• When designing long corridors or entrance zones, the mesh ceiling can act as a zoning tool. It is only necessary to combine two types of ceiling system, for example, a standard design with grill-shutters.

• In the living rooms, Grilyato perform primarily as independent decor, multiplying the visual appeal of the interior. Successful implementation of this option of finishing the ceiling zone will be subject to sufficient height of the walls.

• Dot illuminators and profile in chrome color is one of the most effective and practical designs of Grilyato. Such a solution not only looks very beautiful and transforms the interior, but also illusively changes the geometry of space, since chromium has excellent reflectivity.

How to install the ceiling Grilyato, see below in the video.