Where to Place the Hidden Hanging Mount

Make some decisions as to what you want to do with the hook before you investigate where you want it.  Do you need 360 degree access to the submissive?  Will the equipment and the submissive and you fit where you want to be when you install the equipment?  Will you be laying down or doing anything horizontal, like a sex swing, that needs room to move?  We suggest that you make more room for play than you think you’ll need.

Once you’ve decided how much space you need, you will need to find a place where the ceiling is accessible and has enough room.  Preferably without moving a lot of furniture.  Use marking tape to mark the space on the floor.  This will give you and idea of how much space you’ve decided is enough, and then find roughly the center.  Then we’ll need to start building!

How to Build a Hidden Hanging Mount

For Rooms with Accessible Attic Space

Now that we know where we want the hook, drill a hole small enough for a wire hanger to poke through.  Straighten one out, and push it through the hole.  If you got lucky and hit a joist, that’s awesome!  Assuming you didn’t, the hanger is to make the hole easier to find when you get into the attic.  Go into the attic, and find the hanger sticking up.  Bring a tape measure, and a flashlight.  Look for the space between the joists where the hole is and you can access the area perpendicular to the joists.  The goal is to build a platform that you can hang several times your weight off of, across multiple joists (at least 2).

There are several ways to get this done.  Some designs use steel channel bolted across the top of several beams with a long bolt hanging down.  Some designs use 2 by 8 or 2 by 10 boards cut to fit between the joists.  Using wood is the easier and generally less costly.  Cut the boards to fit the space between the joists.  Screw at least 2 together so they stack and fit snug (stacked like pancakes).  Take the stack into the attic and use high quality screws to screw the stack into place through the joists, against the top of the sheetrock, centered over the hole from the hanger.

For rooms without Accessible Attic Space

The most difficult step is going to be finding a joist.  Using a stud finder is going to be the easiest method, or simply knocking on the ceiling and listening for the more solid “thump”.  Once you find the joist, you will just need to cut the sheetrock away to reveal the bottom of the joist.  The floor above you will help spread the load between joists, but you need to be careful that you don’t split the joist when you install the mount point.  If this happens, DO NOT use that spot, you will have to move, it will not be safe.

For both room types

Go back into the bedroom and using the small hole as a guide, enlarge the hole large enough to fit your mount, but not exceeding that size.  You can use a drill or just cut the sheetrock with a utility knife as well.  From here, install the hook of your choice.  Finding a hook or mount that will be quiet might be important to you, as well as one that will move and spin.  This swing hook from amazon is a good example of one.

Hiding the Hanging Mount

Now that the hole is there and the mount point is secure, go buy a good size, the deeper the better, smoke detector.  Don’t spend a lot of money because you are going to gut the unit.  Cut the mounting plate so that the mounting point fits through it cleanly.  Follow the instructions to mount the detector.  This smoke detector from amazon is a good, deep one that will hide well and removes from the base easily.

When you want to play, take the cover off and have a blast!  Then when you are done, put the toys away and slip the cover back on and no one will give that thing a second glance!

What to do with the Hidden Hanging Mount!

Now that it’s installed, you can use your imagination with it!  Get some chain and some wrist restraints and have her stand there and toy with her body.  Get a sex swing (there’s so many kinds!) and you can take turns in it with her pleasing you and you pleasing her.  Use the chain and a weight rated carabiner to mount a spreader bar to hold her in different positions.  Some of the positions invite pain, some invite a mix of pleasure and pain.

Having your sub restrained with cuffs to the ceiling is a good time to introduce some impact play (assuming you have discussed this!).  Play with some household stuff, then spend a little bit of money on Etsy for some nicer things you can customize.

It would be impossible to list all the things you can do with a ceiling mount.  Some people find that one simply isn’t enough and install a second one!  The important thing is that it’s safe, and consensual as always!

Conclusions

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The plan is to include some DIY things for some light to moderate BDSM.  Some of it is from experience, some will be pulled and edited/editorialized from online sources.  None of the advice given should be taken as gospel, and you do anything you do at your own risk.  Overbuild everything.  This post on tumbex.com is a mirror of an old tumblr post with photos for those that need that!

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