How to plaster the ceiling with your own hands (video)

The appearance of the ceiling plays a large role in the overall visual perception of the room. The ideal is considered to be a perfectly flat, smooth surface, without distortions in height, cracks, potholes, and the like. Plasterboard ceiling covering is one of the most popular solutions that allows you to quickly and easily achieve an attractive appearance and provide sound insulation. The following tips and instructions will help you figure out how to sheathe the ceiling with drywall.

Necessary tools

Plasterboard installation on the ceiling - not too complicated and time-consuming process, but it is still not done with bare hands, so you need a small set of tools:

• screwdriver;
• Planer - useful when cutting bevels;
• hydraulic level - will help to check the evenness of the installation in vertical and horizontal planes;
• roulette;
• knife - will be used to cut GKL into pieces of the right size;
• metal scissors for profile cutting;
• puncher - necessary for drilling holes in which dowels will then be mounted.

As for materials, everything is extremely simple: in addition to the drywall sheets themselves, you will need:

• guiding and bearing profiles;
• dowels;
• self-tapping screws;
• crab connectors;
• suspensions.

If the question is how to install drywall on the ceiling, you are interested in order to improve the bathroom or kitchen, GKL you need moisture resistant, because in these rooms there is high humidity.

Recommendations of specialists

Practical advice from experienced craftsmen will help you figure out how to sheathe the ceiling with sheets of drywall with your own hands:

• All of the above tools and materials should be prepared in advance so that you are not distracted by their search.
• Cleaning after repair is not the most enjoyable task; hanging the doorways with foil will help to reduce the time for it after its completion.
• The decision to sheathe the ceiling with your own hands will save you a lot of time and effort that you would have spent on leveling it.

• The distance between the base ceiling and the profiles directly depends on the installed lighting system.
• Try to lay out sheets of drywall on the ceiling so that the joints are on the profile.
• Install suspensions in a checkerboard pattern.
• Before suturing your ceiling with drywall, double-check the quality of the assembled metal frame and lay the wiring.
• Fix GKL with self-tapping screws.
• At any stage of the work, if you encounter any difficulties, drive a query into your search engine: “how to plasterboard a ceiling with your own hands to make videos”. Knowledge is not superfluous.

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Installation

To get a better result, it is better to attract an assistant.

Important! Take care of respiratory and vision protection during the installation of the suspension structure.

Installation is carried out according to the following algorithm:

1. We clean the base ceiling.
2. Before we hem the ceiling with drywall, we calculate the height of the future ceiling, taking into account the communications that the suspended structure will hide, and the lighting system.
3. Using a water level and a pencil, we create a drawing on the surface, on which the attachment points of the profiles and fixtures will be marked.
4. According to the marks we fix guide profiles around the perimeter of the room.
5. We carry out the installation of suspensions, on which we later fix the bearing profiles. It runs across the room.
6. Installation of intermediate profiles is carried out in half a meter from one another.
7. Before sewing up the frame, we check the correct installation of intermediate profiles, as well as how securely they are installed.
8. We fix gypsum plasterboards in a checkerboard pattern using self-tapping screws.
9. At the end of the work, cut off the excess with utmost care using a construction knife.

Drywall finish after installation

Using the above diagram, you will get a ceiling surface with exactly installed GCR. Now they need to be processed correctly.

• First, putty joints, pre-gluing them with reinforcing mesh.
• The corners are sewn up with metal corners, and then also putty.
• We process the entire ceiling surface with a primer, start and finish putty. After it dries, your plasterboard ceiling will be ready for any finishing work.

Having finished the ceiling with drywall, you will get a number of advantages:

• Such a covering will hide all the flaws of the base surface, utilities, wiring.
• Plasterboard ceiling can be given almost any shape, which opens up wide opportunities for the implementation of various design ideas.
• If one of the sheets is damaged, it is easy to replace it.
• Drywall is an absolutely harmless material for humans and the environment.

As you can see, if you have the necessary tools and basic skills, it is quite possible to install the plasterboard ceiling yourself and get a very decent result.

Cost

Professional installation of a simple single-level ceiling in Moscow will cost from 370 rubles / m2, in St. Petersburg - from 390 rubles / m2. The price of arranging a two-level ceiling structure excluding materials starts from 400 rubles / m2 in Moscow and from 550 rubles / m2 in St. Petersburg.