Stretch
ceilings.
A membrane tensioned across a slim perimeter track — one continuous surface, no joins, no dust, and the old ceiling stays exactly where it is.
A ceiling with no joins in it.
A stretch ceiling is a lightweight membrane, cut to the room’s exact dimensions and tensioned into a slim aluminium track fixed around the perimeter. It sits just below the existing ceiling.
Which means the old ceiling doesn’t come down. Cracks, stains, patchy plaster, wiring, pipework and ductwork all disappear behind it — no stripping out, no skip, no fortnight of dust.
The old ceiling stays. You just stop seeing it.
- Measure
- Track
- Tension
- Light
The room is measured. The membrane is cut to that room and no other, so the finished surface runs wall to wall with nothing joined in the middle.
The track goes up. A slim aluminium profile is fixed around the perimeter, just below the existing ceiling line. That’s the only fixing the system needs.
The membrane is tensioned. PVC is warmed until it’s pliable, stretched into the track and left to cool — it tightens as it goes, and pulls itself dead flat. Fabric membranes are stretched cold.
Lighting goes behind it. A translucent membrane lets you light the ceiling itself rather than hang something off it, so the whole plane glows evenly with no visible fitting.
No joins, no dust, no ripping the old one out.
Over 150 fit-outs delivered across the UK, each one installed by our own team.
Typical uses.
& Bars
Lobbies
Wet Rooms
Homes
Worth knowing.
What’s the membrane made of? Either a PVC film or a polyester fabric. PVC is impermeable, so it’s the one for kitchens, bathrooms and anywhere damp. Fabric is stretched without heat.
How long does it take? Most rooms go in inside a day. There’s no scraping, sanding or painting, so the space isn’t out of use for a week.
Will it hide what’s up there now? Yes — that’s half the point. It hangs below the existing ceiling, so defects and services sit behind it and stay accessible.
Can lighting go in it? Yes. Fittings can be integrated into the membrane, and a translucent one can be backlit so the ceiling itself becomes the light source.
TO CONFIRM before this goes live: does Zamaratti install these with its own team or subcontract them? Everything above is true of stretch ceilings as a system — the “installed by our own team” line in the band above is the homepage’s, and it needs to be true here too or it comes off.
A single source, from design to installation.
The best surfaces aren’t printed or pretending. They’re the real thing: genuine stone, real bamboo, properly made and properly fitted.
Zamaratti started in Leicester, and it’s still where everything happens. We bring our stone in from quarries across the eastern hemisphere, then work it into finished panels at our own facility here.
That’s taken us from single feature walls in Leicester homes to full fit-outs for restaurants and bars around the country. The same team that quotes a job is the one that turns up to fit it, and we’d always rather put a sample in your hand than talk you into anything.