Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Stewart Hicks" channel.

Nah. I'd take them out and have a couple of feet more headroom, less hiding spaces for vermin, and less dust 😌👌 .
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^ They're only extant because of the Drop Ceiling boyo, not in spite of it 🙄😮‍💨 . Get rid of the Drop Ceiling, and the problem functionally disappears alongwith it 😁 .
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 @smh9902 Yup. Imagine thinking today's cotton wool culture would allow kids to use non-water based paint 😂 . (the stuff has to be practically edible these days 😅)
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Debatable. UK schools vary wildly on this 😂
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@GoldClav My meaning is that you're less likely to see a Drop Ceiling in a Grammar School, "Public School" & some faith/independent schools, than in a "Comprehensive" or "Academy" school 🤔 .
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@Cheekia2 Yes, as they're readily accessible, instead of hidden away in an inconvenient to check or clean dust, filth & rat droppings ridden void.
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@GoldClav You do know that "highschool" is an American term, not British 🤨 . (we've always called them UpperSchool) Also: my point is that not all British schools don't have them; especially with non-state schools.
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@GoldClav I didn't answer because I thought it obvious I'm from the one country that can pronounce Aluminium the way it's [supposed to be] spelt 😉 . (while also knowing how to pronounce Leicester, Worcester & Southwark 😏) And yes; school terminology confuses our plastic cheese eating cousins... and pretty much everybody else 😆
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As the grandson of an architect... I detest them. A few details that weren't mentioned is that they make it harder to control Vermin (as they have a space where once they've got in they can cover vast distances in a building unnoticed / out of reach of pest controllers), they make mantainance harder through the amount of work required to reach anything, and they result in more dust overall in the air.
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Makes me glad that my school didn't have Drop Ceilings. We just painted everything else 😂
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Ironic, as I find the opposite to be so. High ceiling for me means fresh air and a feeling of being unconstrained, while low ceilings start to set off my claustrophobia 😅
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False. You get more dust & filth - not to mention droppings & chewed wires - with drop ceilings, than without them. This is because they are harder to clean, and most businesses don't bother to, especially during hard times. With a non-drop ceiling everything is accessible, and there's less parts of a building where vermin or unreachable dust/filth can hide.
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^ Good job entirely missing the point 😮‍💨 . Drop Ceilings in-practice lead to a vast amount of dust and filth above head height, which can get into installed A/C, and is a fire hazard if accrued enough over time... which it will be as businesses rarely bother to clean a space that is ""out of sight, out of mind"". Also: the point is that Vermin are given a vast space where they can scuttle around in relative safety, defecating all around and where lots of tasty wiring is just sitting there. No Drop Ceilings; all I have described ceases to exist as issues. (not to mention light fixtures, A/C units, wiring & ducting is easier to keep clean & to troubleshoot quickly) Sincerely, someone who's seen & worked around plenty of these god-awful Drop-Ceilings, and has enough background in architecture to detest them as a lazy and fundamentally flawed approach to interior fittings.
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^ #Denial100 😆 🤣 The vermin issue is because of the DC, not in spite of it. Same with dust & filth accruement, and the myriad of heath and fire hazard concerns it brings about. Remove the DC, and the issues vanish alongwith it. (vermin have less places to hide & are easier to combat, filth & dust can't accrue unnoticed, and there's less blindspots for firefighting)
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