With this style you won t need to purchase additional cross tees just pop out the old ceilings and place in the new.
Replace single ceiling tile.
Some ceiling tiles manufactured prior to mid 1970 contain asbestos.
Before you work on a ceiling that old contact your regional epa office state environmental office or local health department for advice on testing and handling.
Investigate how the ceiling tiles are attached.
Fortunately our damaged ceiling tiles were in a corner of the basement used as a laundry room.
We simply removed all tiles in that corner to install replacement tiles.
For a quick update pop old tiles out of the ceiling grid and replace with fresh ones.
Use a utility knife to score the tiles then a putty knife to loosen and pull loose a tile for inspection image 1.
If they re glued directly on it will take some extra effort to remove them.
If your grid holds 24 x 48 tiles try a scored product that s designed to look like 24 x 24 panels.