How To Frame A Groin Vault Ceiling

Building a barrel vault ceiling on the job site is time consuming expensive and not always perfect.
How to frame a groin vault ceiling. Groin vault square rectangle room layout assembly and installation instructions groin vault a groin vault is formed by intersecting two barrel vaults or curved ceilings. I have known carol and dan with longacre construction for quite sometime now so when i received a phone call a week prior from dan saying he has an opportunity to use the archways ceilings groin vault kit i was ecstatic. Early this morning i packed up the delivery truck with 2 large groin vault kits and headed out to chico texas to meet longacre construction to help them build the groin ceilings for their current project. We grabbed 2 ladders a nail gun measuring tape and finish nailer.
A groin vault is formed by two barrel vaults intersecting at right angles. Armstrong drywall grid system cross tee armstrong drywall grid. See how efficiently you can build groin vaults with armstrong drywall grid and custom shop drawings in this step by step video. Vault intersections can be an inside or outside groin both use the same process to create a template.
Rounding a ceiling building a barrel ceiling also know as a barrel vault. Framing a barrel ceiling can be very labor intensive if you frame a barrel using plywood osb and 2x4 s. Save time material and labor when using drywall grid systems from. A groin is the curved intersection of the two vaults.
Archways and ceilings solved this problem by creating a prefabricated arched ceiling kit to. Training in groin vault ceiling construction is offered to union members through the chicago regional council of carpenters. Wait i keep saying we it should be more like daryl was ready and i was ready to merely read off the directions for him.