• Install your first panel as square as possible.

    Start from one corner and work your way to the opposing corner or opposite wall. Start with the male flange facing the wall so that the screw plate on the female flange is always exposed as you progress. When trimming the panel flush against the wall, you need to make considerable preparations if you want the bordering panels evenly trimmed around the perimeter of the room.

    Install your first row, allowing 1/16" gap between panels; if you try to make panels too tight corners will eventually force a gap and you will have no way to recover or keep your pattern aligned.


  • Snap chalk line for the second row at 24 1/8". This builds in slight gaps vertically. Install second row following chalk line and keeping pattern aligned. Cut panels at finishing wall as necessary. By following this technique, your ceiling should intstall with much ease.


  • With a 12" or 6" pattern that has a shallow profile depth, you can crop your tin panels to fit flush against the wall or install filler in the remaining area around the perimeter. If the panel does not reach the wall, the remaining gap can be hidden by the crown molding, assuming the projection of the crown is sufficient to cover the gap. Most 24" patterns have significant profile depths. Installing crown over a panel with a deep profile will result in a noticeable gap. To avoid this, we recommend using filler in the remaining area around the perimeter, opposed to cropping the panel flush against the wall.


  • Install your trim. Due to the nature of the metal, the panels will not fit flush against one another. It is good practice throughout the installation to minutely space, in a consistent fashion, each panel apart from eachother to prevent corner misalignment at the end of the installation. (about 1/16") For visual examples and installation procedures, go on to our website for free access to our installation videos and animations. We are also only a phone call away to assist in any question you may have.

Tin Panel Types

Tin Molding

Tin Ceiling Accessories

Tin Design Ideas

Purchasing Tin Products

Tin Photo Galleries

Browse Tin Ceiling Colors

Help & Installation

About AmTin

Links

Why are Tin Ceilings so popular today?

Tin Ceilings remind us of a different time in our country's history. Tin Ceilings stir memories of gentler days when elegance and beauty reigned. A slower paced era where style and grace were the watchwords in home decor. Old time victorian homes, formal parlors, farmhouses with wood burning stoves and other historic architecture we've seen in literature and film or remember from our childhood.

It is said that "Everything Old Becomes New Again". It reinvents itself and becomes fashionable again, perhaps because it was so fashionable in the first place. Fashion goes in and out of style as modern ideas are introduced to the market. But the popular styling's of the past always cycle back into modern contemporary culture. The Tin Ceiling exemplifies this concept.