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My plan was to space out the MDF ceiling panels with 5mm shadow gaps for a contemporary, minimalist look. I planned to use the nail gun which gives more or less invisible fixings (lost head nails). If they were butted flush against each other any small gaps where boards deviate from true, or any slightly un-flush areas would be extremely visible. Whereas with shadow gaps the eye can't tell the difference between 5mm and 7mm so I thought it would end up being more forgiving
I've panelled walls this way in Birch ply and it looks sick.
Anyway my nailgun, for some reason, doesn't like firing nails when pointed straight up. It fires maybe 1 time in 10, and in the process fills the surface with marks but no nails. On top of that when up a ladder, using one arm to pin a big, ungainly bit of MDF in an exact position, and the other arm to raise a very heavy nail gun up to it, you need it to work.
So in the end I had to use big ugly screws. The result being that my modernist ceiling now just looks like unplastered plaster board. Oh well.