Two days ago I changed the fibercement ceiling tiles in my room. It's been difusing a pungent insecticide-like smell all over that leaves a bitter taste in the back of my throat. I suppose it's formaldehyde used to bind the cement board. I've been ventilating the room the best I can but it persists with the same intensity. When will the odor disappear?
Why do you have a drop ceiling in the first place?
Why ask stupid / irrelevant questions?
why so sensitive about your drop ceiling. just answer the question so we can move on.
The thread concerns VOCs not personal reasons for installing.
Try to stay focused son. Is there an adult there with you
I have an undulated fibercement sheet roof. The house came with the drop tiles like any other house around here. If I didn't replace it I'd have wienerroach shit falling on my face. So what about the gas, do other materials like vinyl have less harmful shit on them?
Come on, help me out, I don't want to get cancer over some fricking ceiling tiles.
Put in a normal ceiling
>acts like an butthole, then wonders why nobody wants to talk to him
All i know is the layout isn’t centered and im triggered
can you hit the whole ceiling with one of those roofing torches? I dunno, seems like that would do something.
Drop ceilings are gay
wear a mask
Masks are…..wait for it…..GAY
OP
Only answer is time….eventually they will dry
So do you suffer from the gases or suffer paying for an alternative.
Or are you GAY
Why the frick didn't you put a normal ceiling in. Are you living in an office building or what? Major dumb shit. Formaldehyde is carcinogenic btw... enjoy.
You sound like a gay.
it will never go away, best option is to move out of the abandoned elementary school
probably a LONG time.
I'd take down as many of the easy ones as possible and store them outside with venting between them.
If you need to stay in the room this winter, invest in extra blankets and maybe E-blanket and fleece suit. Keep windows open. 🙂
I've done about a dozen suspended ceilings similar to this and never had such an issue. Was there an existing suspended ceiling that you took out and replaced with this? If so, my guess would be what you're actually smelling is something was above the existing tiles and got knocked free/fell into the room when you replace them. Give the whole place a good dusting and vacuuming, let it air out and see if it is still there in a few days.
i heard from an upstanding citizen that sardines can be used to fix that
Lay them out in the sun, maybe the UV will break down whatever the culprit is
Get an ozone generator, run it in there till no more smell.