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What I would do:

Find the existing joists etc and trace them with baton firmly screwed in place (and on the curve where t slants, screw bits of baton a few inches long instead of a solid line if it's awkward).

Get sheets of flexible board (thin ply perhaps) and cut so that, like a jigsaw, they will fit the ceiling, bridging your external struts.

Cover one side of each piece with your bits and pieces (regular or otherwise) of carpet using a contact adhesive method with added staples if you feel you need a little extra security.

Screw or nail these pieces to the batons. Because they are flexible they should bend to accomodate the variations in pitch.

Is this for sound-proofing or sex games, 2legs?

Take a photograph of some carpet. Run multiple copies off. Paste the photos to the roof.

On a more serious point - we had a problem with one of our shops on Arran. My workshop was directly above and even though I laid hardboard upstairs, sawdust seeped through the floorboards into the shop. The wife solved this by buying cotton dustsheets and painting Aztec figures onto them. We then draped the dustsheets over the ceiling, fixing it to the joists with a staple gun. Looked very ethnic and very cool.

Sex games?!
Sound proofing?!
silly girl..... its obviously.... so the piano doens't look out of place hanging upside down from the ceiling.

>>What is the best way to lay carpet on a ceiling?<<

Not at all?

Seriously. There was carpet on the ceiling in the house I used to live in. (My flatmates' idea, not mine!) Looked horrible, got very dusty, and was a total fire hazard, and thus, a grease trap.

If it's for sound, try egg cartons?

Otherwise,if you must, a staple gun should work if the carpet's not too heavy.

I thought using egg cartons didn't really work for sound proofing/dispersal Nothing ever really happens in this room cept me sitting at the desk and music, I don't eat smoke or drink in here So I don't kno wif it'd get that* dirty or anything, asdies the soundproofing aspect I was kinda hoping it might provide some heat insulation as this room is freezing cold

I am going to have to be honest here 2legs and say that your time and money is focused on something that won't actually work and aimed at the wrong thing.
What is at fault here is your central heating system or more rightly from your decription in posts elsewhere on here, a none centrally heating system. You need a competant central heating engineer/installer come and reassess the sysem you have installed as it sounds like it is not functioning properly and has inadequate radiators for your house. This may cost some money but you wouldn't have to stay in bed to keep warm or have rooms totally out of bounds as cold all the time.
Also money spent on carpet for your ceiling would be better spent on draft exclusion for your doors and windows and upgraded loft insulation, for which there maybe grants available for everyone.
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Sorry to have to be so honest about this but carpet tiles on a ceiling will really just eat up time and money better spent elsewhere on things that will improve your quality of life and possibley add a small amount of value to your house if want to sell and make it easier to sell.

2legs, you might be interested to know that, here in canada, at least, that thing that detects where the nails are in the ceiling is called a 'stud finder'.... i'm just sayin

2legs has one of them, in fact he has two, one on each arm...

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The main thing for doing it will be for the soundproofing, the insulation is secondary, and the lack of heating in this room can't change; its too small to ahve a radiator in, and it'd not be good for the equipment in this room to attempt to heat it; The heating is pretty much fine, the boiler is quite new, just that the windows are falling out of the house and letting in quite a lot of air and letting a lot of heat out and the Council have excelled themselves every time I've attempted to pay to repalce the windows by their inability to understand their own procedures; However since I found a hidden away bit of their website, I've managed to discover the secret the council (the lease holders), woun't tell me about; Last time I tried to replace the windows, and in face, the time befor ethat...; the ap; the application form was gotten from council, filled in, sent back, and they said 'they coudln't make a desicision on the basis of the information I'd supplied, and they needed more inofrmation', yet each time I contacted them they said they didn't know what the 'more' information was they required.... Turns out its obbiously the additional form from a differnt department which I managed to find out about. So in the new year I can again attempt to sort out the draft issue
Anyhow; the carpeting the ceiling shoudln't hardly cost much in this room; the carpet on the floor I bought new for £15 (as its so small just about any* offcut will fit )
I might not get round to it anyhow, I've still got to figure out how to get the piano on to the ceiling once the carpet is up there

Throw it up and distract it before it hits the ceiling. It should just hover there. I haven't actually tried it with a piano, but I have several pieces of pizza, a calculator, a book about Marx and a hungry cat floating about my living room that have been there quite a while. It's quite funny watching the cat trying to read the book but keep getting distracted by the pizza.

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egg trays and drawing pins is the answer

get it looking like a real recording studio

make sure its the base bits of the egg boxes and jsut staple or glue em to the ceiling and walls.

mini

you... you now look:::: I've got broken eggs all over the mixing desk.... you might have told me to take the eggs out first!

No... seriously though, I was told once err not that* long ago that the thing with egg boxes for soundproofing; more accurately for sound deflection is a bit of a myth... I guess it must have some truth to it... but it doesn't relaly work to 'baffle' down the noise despertion in quite the way it outa....
On the wall behind me hang all the guitars, I'd like to carpet that wall as its directly opposite the monitor speakers, plus of course, if a guitar is put back in a hook a bit too forcibly it can help to an extent cushion the back of the guitar from just baning into the wall the short bit of wall in front of me woudl be handy to also carpet as its direclty behind the monitors, reduce sound reflection from there, and then the ceiling above me at least on this sid eof the room (to probably about half way into the room thus avoiding having to do fancy cutting of carpet to take into accoutn the positon of the lights on the ceiling).... So that'd hopefully make this end of the room a littl eless reflective as its quite narrow where the speakers are so they've got a wall directly behidn them, and then not that* far in front of them and then to my right is the annoying door that cna't be used anyhow as its got a big amp and mic stand and thigns in front of it... so that door is never* used... but it rattles annoyingly so I was just going to cut a bit of carpet to size, and nail it over the whole of the door frame and that would definatley* help stop the draft from the utility room which is I think still on teh other side of the door

go to a traditional indian resteraunt and ask them how they got the carpet half way up the wall

That sunds like a plan 2legs. Choose hardwearing sort of industrial carpet for the wall with the guitars on it and put underlay (oh the mexican jokes) along where the guitars will be to cushion it a wee bit more.

umm, the carpet on the door that doesnt get used sounds like a good idea, you might want to stuff the cracks round the door itself with newspaper or something before you nail a lump of carpet over it, that should help stop any stray giraffes getting in.

maybe use egg boxes (empty) on just the ceiling? easier to put up and take down than carpet! and you can paint them all sorts of garish colours beforehand!

mini

I did a similar sort of thing in a flat once behind some speakers on stands but used some sort of velvety material, I expect a curtain material, with padding behind. I can't remember what sort of padding it was. The speakers were in an alchove so didn't need as much materials. It did cut relections from behind speakers. Come to think of it the padding might have been the old fashioned felt carpet underlay which I think you can still buy.
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I understand that heavy curtains can also be used to deaden reflections in a room. I suspect that heavy curtains could used hung from a ceiling in a small room and look a lot less odd than carpet,lol! I personally think a curtain lined room would feel more normal and homely than a carpet lined one.
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I would think that the egg box thing as sound absorbing material, an idea now discredited it would seem, came from those rooms that have total sound absorbtion used for sound testing with those spikey walls that look vaguely like very spikey egg boxes but aren't.

This sounds a lot of fun and is probably much easier than you think. I once carpeted the ceiling of a caravan with lightweight office carpet which is a sort of matted felt material. I used ordinary wallpaper paste although mixed a bit thicker than usual and I pasted both surfaces, allowing the paste on the carpet to dry before sticking it to the wet paste on the ceiling. I doubt if an ordinary carpet would pull down a plasterboard ceiling but after finding the joists as described previously it would be easy to add some reinforcing nails or screws. A wallpaper steamer would be enough to remove the carpet by breaking the glue bond when eventually required.

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The door I plan to either carpet over, or curtain in front of (which I hand't thought of until mentioned aboe), opens from the other* side, so I could open it from inside the utility room and get to teh space between carpet and door.... I could always put some kind of insulating matterial in there.... maybe the bag of assorted old clothes thats been sitting in the spare room 'waiting to be delt with' for about five years The curtain idea may also work on the wall behidn the speakers; Its supprizing waht a differnce even a small bit of matterial can make; I was repositioning slightly my big* speakers in the bedroom a while back, and moved the curtains which are floor to ceailing that cover the window, and they're only fairly thin cheap curtains but it made a lot of differnce to the overall sound when they were just moved back very slightly to leave a clear view of the speaker back to the window/wall errr, but they are ported speakers with the ports at the rear, wehre as the studeo monitors have ports at the front....
I may ahve to think about replacing the floor carpet at the same time, looking at it its getting a little thread bare in places maybe one giant roll of carpet.... and just roll it out and round to create a bit circular tunnel
or.... perhaps I should go for padded walls

try the video of blurs song 2 for insperation

as i remember that had a carpeted walled room

cant post a link as posting from work