Drop Ceiling Clip
If you are looking to hang sign-boards or banners from your store ceiling then you should make sure you use a good quality clip to hang them. Usually people use drop ceiling clips to hand medium weight banners or sign boards from the ceiling. These clips should be strong enough to hold the weight of the sign boards.
Drop ceiling clip sizes and types vary depending on what kind of banner you’d like to hook it to. Some clips are simple metallic hooks that easily clip to the grid on the ceiling. Make sure they are secured tightly to avoid the sign boards from falling off; especially if you are using it in a store. You may run the risk of having the banner fall on a customer.
You also get the wire T-bar clips which is considered the most effective fasteners for hanging temporary or permanent sign boards, graphics, mobile or seasonal decorations. They have an open design which makes it convenient to attack them to lightweight chains, loop-end cable and double hooks in a neat and simple way.
There is another type of drop ceiling clip which has a V shape. It is a very small and compact piece but has unbelievable gripping strength. They spring open easily which makes installation of banners and sign boards quite simple. The mini grid clips are a best choice to hang barbed-end cable cords. Then we also get the figure 8 clip. They are named so because their shape is like the number 8.
The figure 8 clips can only be hand installed unlike other grid clips that can also be pole installed. But these clips are very strong and durable as compared to the other grip clips. If you don’t like to see chains or cords hanging from the ceiling then you should use the snug-to-ceiling clips. They are called twist-on clips that twist easily on a 1” or ˝” wide T-bar. These clips measure only ˝” and are perfect for low-ceiling banner hangings.
The strength of the clip depends on its type and make and sometimes its size. Most drop ceiling clip patterns can hold about 5 lbs. but the stronger ones such as the figure-8 clips and the thrift-T clips can hold up to 10 to 15 lbs.
These clips are quite inexpensive. Most clips cost less than $10 per 100 clips which is quite affordable. So next time you want to hang a “SALE” or “DISCOUNT” banner in your store make sure you choose the right kind of ceiling clips.
