Dunelm, Glasgow

Dunelm's new Glasgow store needed a coordinated retail interior package across the trading floor and supporting areas. Eastledge's scope covered dry lining and tape and joint to the internal walls, fire-rated MF ceiling systems, and suspended ceiling installation across the store.

The brief

The new Dunelm store in Glasgow needed a coordinated retail interior package across the trading floor and supporting areas. Eastledge's scope covered dry lining and tape and joint to the internal walls, fire-rated MF ceiling systems, and suspended ceiling installation across the store. The specific site was in Uddingston, on the eastern edge of Glasgow. The work was sequenced so that dry lining established the internal forms first, MF ceilings followed, and the suspended ceiling grid completed the visible ceiling plane.

The photographs record the work at two points. The finished Dunelm store shows the completed ceiling above the retail floor, while the WIP views show the ceiling package before decoration. Together they show the practical sequence behind a clean retail interior rather than only the finished result.

Dry lining, tape and joint, fire-rated MF ceilings

The dry lining package formed the internal wall and ceiling surfaces needed for the store fit-out. Dry lining gives the following trades a stable, even surface, while tape and joint closes the board joints and prepares the finish for skim and paint. In this project, the photographs show the tape and joint stage mid-programme, with the boarded MF grid ready for skim and paint.

MF means a metal-frame suspended ceiling formed from primary and secondary channels, then plasterboarded and jointed to create a monolithic flat ceiling. In a large retail volume, fire-rated MF ceilings help form the required fire-resisting construction when the complete system is specified and installed to its tested detail. Rockwool FirePro is visible in the WIP photography, alongside the boarded ceiling grid. The sequence kept the dry lining, tape and joint, and ceiling work connected rather than treating each trade as a separate handover.

Suspended ceilings and the finished store

After the dry lining and MF ceiling stages, the suspended ceiling grid was coordinated across the Dunelm trading floor. A retail ceiling has to accommodate downlights, sprinklers, sound and detection, as well as the service routes above it. Setting out the grid module against those interfaces is where a supply-and-install team earns its money. The finished image shows the result from the shop floor: a consistent ceiling plane above the displays, aisles and circulation routes.

The WIP-to-finished sequence is useful because the finished ceiling does not reveal the setting out, board joints or service coordination that made it possible. At Dunelm Glasgow, the completed store provides the customer-facing finish while the earlier photographs retain the construction story behind it.

Working across Glasgow and Scotland

Glasgow is a delivery location for Eastledge's Derby-based interiors team, and this project adds a retail example to our Scotland work. Materials and plant were sequenced from the East Midlands yard for the programme, with access planned along the M74 corridor. That preparation matters on a Glasgow project because a missing item or late delivery can interrupt several linked trades at once.

The team delivered the dry lining and ceiling package as one connected scope, rather than separating the Glasgow work into unrelated visits. Eastledge delivers retail programmes nationwide, with the same attention to sequencing whether the site is in Glasgow, elsewhere in Scotland, or closer to the Derby base. See our commercial interiors work across Glasgow for more on the area we cover.

The result

The completed Dunelm Glasgow store was opened and trading in July 2026, with a coordinated suspended ceiling that reads cleanly from the shop floor. The project brings together commercial dry lining, suspended ceiling installation and retail fit-out in one Glasgow case study.