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Backsplash Installation

Backsplash Introduction (03:10)

Lead designer, Gary, talks about what it takes and the ease of installing a tin backsplash. Brief descriptions of tools to use for installing a tin backsplash as well as the tin patterns used when selecting tin product.

Backsplash Demo (01:22)

Tin backsplash animation showing the proper installation method for installing tin panels under cabinets in a kitchen.

Backsplash Install (Part 1) (01:04)

Installing a tin backsplash using Liquid Nails. Also shows how to cut out a switch plate.

Backsplash Install (Part 2) (01:06)

This video shows the final part of installing a tin backsplash. The proper way of caulking and painting seams, and installing wood molding to complete a backsplash application.

Tin Backsplash - Pattern 30 (01:47)

American Tin Ceiling Company's lead designer, Gary Shapiro, introduces the Pattern 30 tin backspash panel and gives some general information about installing a tin backsplash.

SnapLock Installation

Introduction to SnapLock (04:07)

This introduction shows general information of the only tin ceiling panel that screws into any ceiling! The American Tin Ceiling Company's lead designer, Gary Shapiro, explains the benefits of this revolutionary tin ceiling product.

SnapLock Installation (Part One) (03:14)

The revolutionary tin ceiling panel that screws to any ceiling with drywall screws. This video shows the proper installation method.

SnapLock Installation (Part Two) (01:45)

Installing the SnapLock tin ceiling panel #22 using filler and C1 Crown molding in Antique Rustic Copper.

SnapLock Demo

SnapLock animation showing a quick demonstration of how the ceiling tile is installed.

Complete SnapLock Installation (5:51)

The newest video of a complete SnapLock installation with tips that aren't included in the other install videos.

Nailup Installation

Nail-up Installation (1:50)

Nail-up tin ceiling installation video showing how to use a RotoZip spiral saw for cutting out can lights, utilizing a guillotine cutter for straight cuts and how the panels overlap on their quarter inch nail-rail and nailed using a brad nail gun.

Introduction to Nailups (03:46)

The American Tin Ceiling Company's lead designer, Gary Shapiro, shows how to install a nail up tin ceiling panel pattern #27 to a wood substrate. This panel is shown in Antique Burgundy Gloss powdercoat.

Standard Dropin Installation

Standard Dropin (03:00)

Our lead commercial designer, Ken, introduces our standard tin drop in ceiling panels which installs in a standard drop in grid. He will show how to incorporate tin filler and use drop in clips.

Painting Dropin Grids (02:31)

Tin ceiling panels that drop in to a standard 2'x2' grid will need attention when using any colored panel. This video shows how the American Tin Ceiling Company works with standard grid systems to match them to the powder coated colors they offer.

3D Dropin Installation

3D Dropin Introduction (03:24)

3D-Dropins are the new tin ceiling for commercial and residential drop in ceiling applications. Fits into a standard drop in grid. This new tin ceiling product shows a 1" drop reveal hiding the grid!

3D Dropin Recessed Lights (01:33)

What is a recessed light and how is it installed in a DropIn and 3D-DropIn ceiling? This video answers those questions.

3D Dropin Filler (01:48)

This video shows a 1" reveal tin ceiling drop-in panel option, for areas of grid that are less than the standard 24"x24" space. We show three options in tin for this situation and introduces a patterned tin filler panel.

3D Dropin Animation (00:24)

3D-Dropins are the new tin ceiling for commercial and residential drop in ceiling applications. Fits into a standard drop in grid. This new tin ceiling product shows a 1" drop reveal hiding the grid!

3D No Filler (02:05)

3D-Dropins are the new tin ceiling for commercial and residential drop in ceiling applications. Fits into a standard drop in grid. This new tin ceiling product shows a 1" drop reveal hiding the grid! This video shows how to cut the panels to avoid using filler for areas less than 2'x2'.

3D Manufacture Cuts (00:57)

The 3D DropIn tin ceiling panel has a 1" depth reveal, hiding the visiblity of the grid itself. This video shows how the manufacturer cuts and bends the panel to accomodate spaces in the grid that are less then 2'x2'. Add $5 per panel for AmTin to cut for you.

Crown Molding Installation

Introduction to Crown Molding (02:58)

Lead designer, Gary introduces tin crown molding and its proper installation method.

Crown Molding Install (02:27)

This video shows the proper way to install crown molding over your tin ceiling.

Crown Molding Install (Miters) (00:38)

This video shows the proper way to install crown molding over your tin ceiling with factory pre-cut miters.

Crown Molding Install (Compound Corners) (00:56)

This video shows the proper way to install crown molding over your tin ceiling with compound corners.

Flat Molding Installation

Introduction and Installation Flat Molding (02:43)

This installation video shows the proper way to install tin flat molding

Installing Recess Lights

Recess Lights (00:35)

This animation shows the proper way to install recessed lights in a tin ceiling.

Tin Ceiling Panels with 24 Inch Patterns

24 inch Patterns (00:56)

This animation shows how to work with a 24" pattern and filler with a tin ceiling.

Pattern #9 Demonstration

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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.