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[comment u/killiansmith19] If you get a single man lift you can usually take out some of the ceiling grid parts to get up into the ceiling high enough. We’ve done it before at Dollar Tree sites.
“That's going to be a change order. Especially since they moved locations after the survey.”
u/senkosferda34 points · Sep 22, 2026View
“Escalate. Tell them the situation and that your going to have to tear out ceiling grid and then have that repaired to make it secure. Let them make the call.”
u/gnjoey27 points · Sep 22, 2026View
“Try throwing some wire up and over the truss then you can tape your safety wire to it and pull it through. Or any sort of weight onto pull string works too. You’ll have to wrap the safety wire pretty low instead of up by the truss like is proper, but it still holds.”
u/BuffaloDV15 points · Sep 22, 2026View
“LOL, I just posted this in r/electricians about homemade tools We made a tool for hanging suspended ceiling wire from bar joists for 2x4’s out of 3/4 EMT. You cut along the EMT on an angle making a spiral cut and then flattened it out like a flag, but leave a hook at the end. Then you bend 2 slight, close offsets so you can spin it easily. You then take 1/2 a dozen or so ceiling wires, bend th”
u/Switchedbywife11 points · Sep 22, 2026View
“Sound like you already have the plan for the tile mount. Can do the suspension with stranded cable or grid wire. Grid wire is easy if the iron isn't much more than 10' up. What you want to do is take a piece of EMT conduit and partially cut through it at an angle and "unpeel" it in a spiral with some pliers until it has a flag of material several inches long perpendicular to the length. Then you”
u/grivooga4 points · Sep 22, 2026View
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