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Help with ceiling, please… Not sure if I can install my X-Pole.
Hi everybody,
I have just moved and I am not sure if I can install my x-Pole (xpert) with the new ceiling. Hopefully someone has already been in the same situation and can help me out, it would be really appreciated!
They are popcorn ceilings. We used a stud finder to locate the joists and the behavior was quite erratic, sometimes it indicated there was a stud and the next time it didn’t… We kind of located two studs were the positives seemed consistent. However, these studs were not separated the standard 16 or 24 inch, so it is suspicious. We had to use a sheet of paper between the stud finder and
the ceiling. The stud finder worked fine on the walls, which are not popcorn.
The knock test didn’t help much either, everything sounded pretty similar, hollow.There is huge, heavy lamp installed in the middle of the room. We removed the lamp and looked thru the hole, and what we found was that there was a metal stud where the lamp was attached, but it was not in contact with the popcorn ceiling, it was about 2-3 inches above. The popcorn ceiling was about 1 inch width and when we pressed, it moved a little.
At this point, it doesn’t seem that the ceiling will be sturdy enough to hold the xPole dome…
Do you have any suggestions? Somebody with the same sort of ceiling?
Or switching to X-stage is my only option? I would not want to do that, because of the money and that I like floorwork and low flow and even the X-stage lite is not ideal.
Thanks!
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