Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Always Ready For a Challenge

Recently due to the competitive market, our Customers have been pushing for some challenging designs to set there homes apart from there competition. A Groin Vault often known as a Cross Vault, is two barrel ceilings intersecting. This is a simple task for Arch-Tek, but our customer wanted to step it up a notch. He asked if we can create an Octagonal Groin Vault which would be four barrel ceilings intersecting, in which, I quickly replied, "Of course!" Being in sales I could not let the opportunity pass to achieve such a task. Well after thinking out how to construct a feature, we quickly began manufacturing. Four days later I met my builder at the job site and watched the Octagonal Groin vault go up in 30 minutes. The builder was both happy and amazed that such a complicated ceiling treatment could go up so quickly.

Groin Vaults

Dome Ceilings