Appearance of corners in an apartment

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Contents of

  • 1 When do I need to trim corners?
    • 1.1 Which material is better suited for corner protection
    • 1.2 How to secure the plastic corners to the corners of the walls?
  • 2 Conclusion:

To decorate the corners of the apartment should be resorted to in cases where the family grows young children or keep animals. Since the plastering finishing mixes do not have great strength, they are destroyed when lightly applied to them.

External corners are particularly often destroyed. On the corners covered with wallpaper, there often appear dents, jagged edges appear on the painted corners.

To protect the corners, special tools and techniques are required to protect the corners from damage.

Immediately notice, the process of finishing the corners in the apartment is a difficult and important stage. The smooth surface is much easier to obtain than the alignment of the corners.

When do I need to trim the corners?

The decoration of the corners in the apartment is suitable in cases of installation in the corners of rectangular furniture. Corner alignment eliminates distortions, allows you to harmoniously place rectangular furniture.

Do not forget! With large misalignments, you should not resort to aligning the corners, because when aligning the useful area of ​​the room decreases, but it is possible to beat with a stone.

Which material is better suited to protect the corners

In any room angles are divided into internal and external.
And if it's difficult to get to the inner corners, then external corners suffer more often, and not only from careless carrying of heavy household appliances or furniture.
Angles scrape animals, and they often block the way for children.
For decoration of corners most often use plastic, metal, expanded polystyrene, wooden corners, special metal galvanized profiles, decorative stone.
The plastic corners have a wide range of colors. They have increased softness, varying degrees of roughness.

To the question: "Than to trim the corners of the walls in the apartment?", The article below will best answer below.
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Consider all materials and devices used to protect the corners of the walls.
Under the materials is understood the use of drywall, and as adaptations the use of metal, wooden, polystyrene corners, corners from PVC.

Corner alignment is one of the most complicated stages of interior decoration, requiring theoretical knowledge, great practical experience.

Protection of the corners of the walls is made by installing special tools. As the protection of the corners of the walls are often used corners of different materials.

More often than not, corners from PVC are used as corner protection.

The plastic corners should be installed after completing all the finishing work.

Plastic corners are mounted on the walls with a mounting glue for plastic products.

Plastic corners are produced in length of 2.5 m. The width of the corners varies from narrow to wide.

To properly select the corners in width, you should measure the curvature of the angle.

For larger curvatures, it is preferable to choose corners of greater width.

Narrow corners are used on almost equal corners

For beginners, we recommend to stop at the corners of medium width.

How to fix the plastic corners on the corners of the walls?

Variant 1

    1. With the help of a building corner, it is necessary to measure the deviation of the angle.
    2. To mix the desired consistency of the solution from the dry putty mixture.
    3. The mortar should be applied with a normal spatula, leveled with a corner, giving the corner a rectangular view.
    4.After completely drying the corner, attach the plastic perforated corner and close it with the finishing putty.
    5. When the layer is completely dry, sand the surface with an abrasive mesh.

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Option 2

    1.Plastic corners are installed on a pre-prepared surface. If necessary, remove the old wallpaper with a knife on gypsum board, peel the surface from the old paint.
    2.In the inner surface of the corner, apply glue in 30. .. 50 mm increments. The glue is applied dotted.
    3. When the glue reaches the desired viscosity( indicated in the adhesive instructions), attach the plastic corner to the protected corner and fix it with a paint tape.
    4. In place of liquid nails, it is possible to use colorless silicone.

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These options for protecting the corners of walls are also suitable for the use of metal profile corners.

If you want to not only protect the corners, but also decorate the corners in the apartment, use wooden or polystyrene corners.
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Expanded polystyrene corners
Styrofoam is a non-combustible material.

Corners made of expanded polystyrene do not absorb moisture, dirt does not adhere to them. Polystyrene corners can be used in rooms with any temperature regime.

The surface of polystyrene corners can be painted. The profile of the corners is created by pressing and is produced in various forms.

Finishing of external corners in an apartment with the help of polystyrene corners is justified in those premises where there is a small passableness of tenants.

Decorative corners from expanded polystyrene allow not only to protect the corners, but also to decorate the corners.

Fastening is possible both for special glue and for ordinary acrylic sealant.

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Corners made of wood
The main advantages of wooden corners are:

    attractive appearance;
    environmental friendliness;
    possibility of creating a carving or decoration.
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Corners made of wood are an indispensable material for decorating the corners in the apartment.
It is necessary to remember only:

    it is not necessary to use wooden corners in premises with the raised humidity;
    it is not recommended to use corners from wood in rooms with large temperature differences.

Stone as a decorative tool
Recently, it has become fashionable to use stone for interior decoration of premises. Particularly organically decorative decoration with a stone looks at the protection of external corners.
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The use of a stone is particularly appropriate when the outer corners have large deviations from the geometric shape. There is no need to level the walls and corners.

Just note! It is better to use decorative stone. It is lighter than natural. And the presence of a smooth surface greatly facilitates hygienic maintenance.

The stone is fixed with a special mortar or tile adhesive.

Step 1

When laying a decorative stone surface should be prepared,
cleaned of dirt, dust, old coating and primer.
If the surface is very dry, or you work at + 30 ° C or higher, it must be moistened.
This is necessary for better penetration of the glue into the depth of the prepared surface.

Step 2
The adhesive is diluted according to the enclosed instructions in quantities that you can use during your work. The properties of the adhesive remain for 2 hours.

Step 3
Cooking glue is best in plastic containers with a drill with a mixer nozzle. After mixing, the adhesive is aged for several minutes and carefully mixed.

Adhesive consumption. At least 1 kg of the area will require at least 6 kg of solution. How many tile glues you will need to help you find out the online calculator.

Step 4
On the back side of the stone, the mortar is applied with a spatula, the edges of the tile are coated with a mortar. On the surface of the wall, several loaves of mortar are applied and a stone is applied.

Step 5
The stone is pressed against the surface with force, checked by the plumb line and by the level of its installation.

Step 6
Lay the stone in three rows, stop the work. The adhesive solidifies completely after two hours. This will allow you to continue laying the next 3 rows.

Remember! Not meeting the requirements of step 6 will lead to collapse of the structure under its own weight.

Drywall for corners
Application of gypsum plasterboard sheets GKL allows you to align any, the most curved corners.
For the installation of drywall sheets, there are two ways: frameless, frame.
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Method 1
Frameless installation of gypsum boards is used both on internal and external corners:

  • surface preparation;
  • a sheet of drywall is applied to the surface and is marked;
  • on the other side of the corner a sheet is also applied and labeled;
  • with a knife the workpieces are cut out and are made by the plane of cutting of the interfaced corners of the drywall;
  • prepared gypsum board sheets are again applied to the corner and adjusted;
  • on sheets is applied a mounting foam;
  • , both blanks are applied to the wall and pressed;
  • sheets are removed, leaving on the wall traces of assembly foam;
  • the sheets are re-applied with foam;
  • foam should be allowed to dry a little and put the sheets in place;The
  • will still adjust the angle using a wooden rail or a building level.

More information about the slopes on the windows.

angle of gypsum board
Method 2
The wireframe method is recommended for applications with significant curvature of the surface.
This method is more laborious, but it can significantly improve the sound and thermal insulation:

  • it is necessary to measure the angle deviation;
  • install the frame, using metal galvanized profiles, fixing them with dowels, screws;
  • on the frame is installed gipsokartonny sheet and attached self-tapping screws;
  • the received surface shpaklyuetsya, polished;The
  • angle is protected by a perforated mesh.

If you are planning to mount a frame from wood, be sure to treat the wooden bars with an antiseptic that protects the wood from mold and parasites.

More details on the types and installation of PVC panels.

Conclusion:

  • the proposed ways of finishing the outer corners can be combined not only in one apartment, but also in one room;
  • simplicity of decorating corners with plasterboard requires additional costs;
  • is the most expensive material for protection and design of corners - this is an artificial stone;
  • finishing the corners in the apartment with corners allows you to give the room not only a complete view, but to protect the corners from damage.

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