How to fasten a plastic ceiling skirting board

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The installation of a ceiling made of plastic panels is one of the most popular ways of building finishing, in the conclusion of which it always becomes necessary to close the gap formed between the ceiling and the walls. For this purpose, skirting boards made of plastic are suitable. They will successfully look like a decorative insert, as they have an external resemblance to stucco molding. But at the same time this material is quite budgetary and has good operational characteristics.

Contents

  • Advantages of plinths made of plastic
  • Selection parameters for plinth
  • Recommendations before starting work
  • Installation of plinth with cable channel
  • Aesthetic method of installing skirting boards
  • Fixing of ceiling skirting on dowels
  • How to trim the skirting board

Advantages of skirting boards made of plastic

The ceiling skirting plastic hasa number of characteristics that determine the popularity of its use in construction work. Consider these parameters in more detail:

  • ceiling skirtings allow to solve simultaneously two tasks: installation of panels and decoration of the ceiling;
  • polymer baguettes do not require special care, and also do not absorb unpleasant odors;The important advantage of
  • is that the presence of plastic skirting does not create restrictions for ceiling panels. This helps to protect the ceiling from deformation;
  • such products do not absorb moisture, which positively affects the life of their products;
  • material is characterized by simplicity and speed of installation;
  • the advantage of plastic skirting boards is also the relatively low cost of the material.

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The choice of plinth choice

The ceiling plinth for plastic panels along the length is always a standard value of 2 m. However, the situation with the width of the skirting boards is different - this index can vary from 1 to 20 cm. In order not to get lost with such a variety, let us consider the features of the use of wide and narrow plinthsfor ceiling:

  1. Wide baguettes help to visually smooth the corners of the room, mask the defects that usually occur at the joints of the ceiling with the walls, and also hide the gaps of the suspended structure.
  2. Narrow skirting boards are of a decorative nature and are used for facing an ideally smooth ceiling.

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When choosing the size of the products, the height of the ceiling should also be taken into account, since the price of the ceiling plastic skirting board will depend on this:

  • for a low ceiling, narrow skirting should be preferred because the wide ones in this case will look too cumbersome and visually even lower the ceiling level;
  • it is recommended to use fillets not wider than 35 mm;
  • before fixing a plastic ceiling skirting to a high ceiling, you should choose a product with a width of 70 mm or more;
  • on the average ceiling height of 2.5-3 m will look good fillet with a width of 40 to 60 mm.

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After choosing the width of the ceiling baguettes, you should think about the color scheme in which they should be matched for the overall design of the room. To determine the most optimal option, you need to take into account such moments:

  1. For the ceilings of medium and low height the best choice will be white skirting. This color visually lengthens the room.
  2. Filaments of dark colors will look good with a high ceiling, as the room will look lower.
  3. Also, you should not combine more than 3 colors in one room, in this case the space will look too variegated.
  4. Black and white shades will be in harmony with any palette of interior finish. The skirtings of contrasting colors will also look impressive. But in this case, the palette of products must match the color of any detail of the interior.

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And in the end you need to decide on the shape of the ceiling baguettes:

  1. Complex relief shapes of panels look very harmonious. But they will be appropriate to look only in the presence of expensive, stylized antique decoration of the room.
  2. More universal are skirtings with simple straight lines. They are suitable for finishing any style and direction.

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Recommendations before the start of work

In order to install the skirting boards neatly and had an aesthetic appearance, it is necessary to take into account such features of the process:

  1. For high-quality work, it is first necessary to measure the length of the room in which the skirting will be done.
  2. The installation process should begin from the corners of the room. At the same time, care must be taken to mask the joints. To do this, you can purchase specially designed corner pieces or self-correcting corners.
  3. If necessary, the surface should be leveled using a putty. In some cases, it is also possible to mount the products over the wallpaper.
  4. The installation process has its own characteristics, depending on the type of wall. On the walls of wood, we attach the material with the help of wood screws.
  5. If we are dealing with the surface of walls from gypsum board, then for fastening it is necessary to use self-tapping screws for metal. Such fasteners allow fixation on the metal frame profile through the lining material.

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Install skirting board with cable channel for

This method of installing plastic ceiling skirtings assumes a channel for laying cable networks. This is a fairly practical solution, since it becomes possible to carry or remove the phone cords, Internet cable or television communications. And there is no need to dismantle the plinth. This method of installation has its own subtleties:

  1. The connection point is covered with a cover, which can be easily removed.
  2. The material strips are connected by means of angle connectors.
  3. Installation of ceiling skirting boards using this method will require the installation of certain clips.
  4. Clips are installed near the wall, retreating a few millimeters. This will allow to place stationary cables in the formed space.
  5. It is advisable to initially place the wires, and then mount the plinth. This will make it possible to replace the required cable, having detached the piece of the product from the clip latch.

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Aesthetic method of mounting skirting boards

It is also possible to mount a plastic ceiling skirting in a way that does not allow the installation of internal and external corners, as well as connectors. This method does not comply with the manufacturer's instructions, but it has advantages in aesthetic respect and looks more carefully. Let's consider the order of manipulations in more detail:

  1. The cable channel must be extracted first.
  2. After this, cut off the edges of the adjacent skirting boards at an angle of 45 °.
  3. Then you need to insert a cable channel into the space provided, while its middle should be on the side of the two skirting boards. This will be an additional support for the installation of the material.
  4. Next, you need to cut the channel from the other bar in half and insert it on both sides of the structure.
  5. The mounting of the plinth of the plastic ceiling is completed.

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Fixing of ceiling skirting on dowels

This method is the most common when installing skirting boards and involves the following actions:

  1. Starting from the corner of the room, you need to install 2 material slats.
  2. Then using a drill, make a hole in the skirting board, and with a perforator, make a hole in the wall.
  3. To avoid difficulties with dismantling operations or redistribution of cables under the baseboard, it is important to attach a stopper to the puncher, which is 5 mm larger than the required depth of the hole.
  4. It's quite possible to do this with your own hands. For example, you can fix a small piece of tube on the drill with an electrical tape. Or paste the tape on the required length of the drill bit. The size of the fastening is determined depending on the strength of the walls and material.
  5. After this, drive the dowels into the finished holes and fasten the baguette strap with the screws. It is necessary in advance to take care of grooves on the bar in the place of each hole for screw caps. This can be done with a drill that is larger than the one we used. To prevent deformation of the plinth, screw the screws as carefully as possible.

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With this method of installation, the attachment points are clearly visible, which negatively affects the aesthetic appearance of the finish. To improve the situation, the most suitable option would be gluing the caps for the screw caps, the color of which will be identical to the color of the skirting boards.

Photo plinth ceiling plastic:

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How to properly cut the plinth

An important point in the process of installing plastic skirting is the correct trimming of the corners of the material and its docking at the outer and inner corners. Unlike other types of plinths in ceiling molding, the angle of attachment to the base is 38-45 °.Because of this, it is difficult to make a cut at 45 ° at the junction points. To carry out the work carefully, it is necessary to adhere to such recommendations:

  1. Skirting should be cut off from the front side, and also on the outer edge.
  2. In case it is necessary to make an outer corner, the trim is done from the inside.
  3. After the trimming procedure, the texture of the eaves on the outside and inside should be viewed.
  4. After the side cuts are made, the plastic skirting should be measured to the ceiling and, if necessary, corrected.

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Tools for execution will require the following:

  • saw cutter;
  • chair.

Using them you can get a fairly accurate result, you only need to set the required parameters and perform the trimming. Also hacksaw and hand chair will do. But as a result of using these tools, there is a risk of damage to the material.

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Before installing the plastic ceiling skirting, you need to know the following features of the tool:

  1. The chair is used in case the ceiling and walls in the room have a flat surface. We make a cut at 45 °.
  2. Then perform a similar slice on the next skirting board, but in a mirror image.
  3. If the walls and ceilings are uneven then a mock-up knife is required.
  4. Plinth, as in the previous case, cut at an angle of 45 °.
  5. After that we perform the fitting of the cut piece and the next fragment.
  6. Thus, we cut corners in all plinths.

The instruction for fixing the plastic skirting board is presented on the video:

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