In interior design , the canvas occupies a special place, because its beautiful original design can add volume and zest for any room.
However, not all finishing materials are capable of realizing the ideas and flight of the designers' imagination. Drywall is another matter. You can make a single-level, domed, curved or two-tiered plasterboard ceiling, decorate it with stucco moldings, niches for lighting or lamps, level the drops. There are a lot of options.
But this is not the only reason why drywall is one of the most popular finishing materials. It has many other advantages.
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Increased requirements are imposed on interior decoration, and if you are thinking of hemming the ceiling with plasterboard, let's consider the advantages and disadvantages, characteristics and composition of the material, its varieties.
Advantages of drywall:
Note: In order to bend a drywall sheet, it is pre-moistened and, having given the desired shape, dried with a hairdryer, for steps, the sheet is moistened at the fold.
Of course, there are no ideal materials and drywall also has its disadvantages:
If, after evaluating all the advantages and disadvantages, you decided that installing drywall on the ceiling is interesting, let's move on to the choice of material, since it has many variations for different categories of premises and surface contours.
The plate is green.
Important: When installing the ceiling, the rooms must be ventilated. After installation, the front side is coated with waterproof paint, tiles or primed.
Production technology - gypsum reinforcement with cellulose fibers. Flame retardant material.
Standard dimensions: 1200 * 2000, 2500, 2600, 2750, 3000.
Application tips
5 and 12.5 mm thick. Usually for the production of work indoors, especially for the ceiling, a thinner and lighter material is used.
There are three main nodes in the plasterboard box device:
The guides are mounted along the perimeter of the room along the walls. They hold the edges of the longitudinal and transverse ceiling profiles on which the plasterboard is laid.
U-shaped straight strips are preferred.
The structure determines the installation order.
Work steps :
After reading the detailed instructions, it will not be at all difficult to make a plasterboard ceiling ourselves, so we will move in stages.
Tools
The hydro level is convenient to use in order to make perfect markings on the walls with any uneven surfaces in the room.
Accessories and consumables:
Of course, the list turned out to be long, but, all the same, you will also have to buy drywall.
Useful tips:
Important: To avoid deformation, do not put drywall sheets edge, fold on top of each other!
After all materials, tools and components are prepared, you can proceed to installation.
When marking the ceiling, the lowest corner of the room is initially determined and a mark is made in this place at a distance of 5 cm or 10 cm from the ceiling.
A 10 cm mark is made in the event that lamps will be installed in the box, since if they are available, internal ventilation is needed.
Then, using the water level, mark out the rest of the corners.
With a strong rope drawn between the marks, draw horizontal lines around the perimeter with a pencil. Of course, if there is a paint line, this will greatly simplify the marking.
Recommendation! Before installing drywall, it is advisable to mark the placement of profiles on the wall, this will facilitate the installation of sheets on the frame. Let's move on to the next point.
Frame device
A little explanation: the main longitudinal ceiling profiles are inserted into the rails in increments that take into account the dimensions of the plasterboard. Since the width of the sheet is 1.2 meters, the longitudinal channels under the sheet are placed at a distance of 0. 4 m from each other.
Important: the hangers are attached to the capital floor by anchoring using a seal.
Joints of elongated adjacent elements should be placed out of order.
Insert the prepared ceiling profile into the guides with a small gap from the wall and fix it with self-tapping screws.
We connect the suspension to the ceiling strip with four self-tapping screws with a press washer and bend the protruding part inward. The order of fixing the elements is from the corners of the room to the center.
In principle, installing a ceiling profile is a fairly simple job, the main thing is to constantly monitor the level.
It is convenient to do this by pulling the line or rope.
Well, finally the frame is ready.
Before installing drywall, do not forget to put everything you need in the future box - wiring, insulation, stash , sound insulation (if you plan).
Now let's take a look at how to attach drywall to a ceiling-mounted frame.
Before carrying out work, the material must lie in the room to be finished for two or three days.
To cut the material to size, use a construction knife or a hacksaw with a fine tooth. Plates are placed on a flat table surface and the front surface is notched at? thickness.
Then, displacing the sheet, break it and cut the opposite side. The resulting burrs and irregularities in the place of the cut are removed with a plane.
Laying drywall sheets on a metal structure grid is desirable produce with a partner, since the material is of considerable weight.
Optimal installation option - whole slab, half, whole, half. In this way, you can neutralize possible drops.
Important points:
The laid drywall sheets are self-tapping with metal hardware with a 15-centimeter pitch, starting from the corners and slightly deepening the caps. The fasteners are placed along the perimeter to the rear wall of the guide profiles, the screws are placed randomly along the ceiling strips.
Now that the plasterboard box under the ceiling is ready, proceed to the finishing of the resulting surface.
Before puttingtying joints and attachment points, the surface of the ceiling is primed, and reinforcing tape is placed in the seams between the plates to prevent cracking.
After the soil has dried, the ceiling surface, seams, fixation points to the profiles are cleaned of dust and dirt. For work, we choose a high-quality durable putty. Follow the instructions for use exactly.
Putty is made with wide and angled spatulas, moreover, the joints are wetted and filled with putty paste as tightly as possible, without air inclusions.
After the paste has dried, the irregularities are removed with sandpaper, the putty joints are closed with self-adhesive tape, and the common surface - with fiberglass.
After finishing with a primer, the ceiling is ready for finishing. It can be painting, wallpaper, a combined version with the design of zonal segments. It all depends on your imagination, design decisions and preferences.
Acrylic paint, latex, matte modifications, gloss are used for painting.
When pasting - any version of wallpaper is suitable.
The frame structure defines the shape of the ceiling. We examined a single-level plasterboard ceiling. To create a multi-tiered or curved box configuration, additional levels of guides and ceiling profiles are mounted. The order of work is similar, the main thing is to make a clear detailed drawing and thoughtful markup.
The curly lines of the ceiling look elegant and impressive. For all the apparent complexity, installing drywall on an unusual-shaped ceiling with your own hands requires only a thoughtful drawing and careful execution.
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