The original lathe, plaster, and spackle ceiling was still there; I didn't feel like dealing with the mess of bringing that down, so I had decided to just cover it with tin ceiling tiles.

I ordered my tin ceiling from tinceiling.ca and only then decided to study up on how to actually install a tin ceiling. One video suggested that step 1 was to was screw 8'x4' sheets of plywood to your ceiling so that you had a solid surface to nail the tin tiles onto. WTF? My assistant was not going to be able to hold giant sheets of plywood up on a ten foot ceiling while I screwed them. I disregarded that advice (which was probably meant for people living in drywall homes, anyway) and used a different method where you attached furring strips to your ceiling, and nailed the tiles along those.

Even after I had my furring strips all ready to go, my brad nailer on its weakest setting would just punch the nail clean through the tin tile. Thing is, tin tiles overlap, so normally when you drove a nail, it was going through 2-4 sheets of tin. But the very first tiles were all alone up there, and I was nailing through a single sheet, and it was simply not working. So I also had to glue extra bits of scrap tin to my furring strips to simulate extra tiles where I was nailing, and that way I was able to get the first set of tiles to go up.

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