Learning to level the walls
We discussed the previous article on how to level the apartment's ceiling with your own hands, and now we will try to describe in more detail how to level the walls. If you do not care about the appearance of your house or apartment, then before you prepare the walls for wallpapering or putting the tiles correctly, you need to level the walls.
How to properly align the walls in the apartment with their own hands?
First of all, you need to determine by what means, you want to level the walls in your apartment, there are two ways. The first is the leveling of walls with plasterboard with a frame, and the second frameless method with the use of building mixtures.
And decide for yourself what will you do with the wall after alignment. This is important, if you justify to paste wallpaper, or put a tile or just paint. If you want to paste wallpaper or simply paint, then you can even level the wall with this option - plastering the walls with your own hands. And if you want to put a tile, then you need mixes. So the tile is better at grappling with the surface.
Now we will tell you how to level the walls with building mixes quickly and independently.
In one of the upper corners of the wall, hammer a nail, leave 2 - 3 mm on the surface. This will be the first beacon. Then take a thread and attach to it some load, for example a nut. And now they got a plumb line. This plumb line is attached to the nail in such a way that the load does not reach the floor a little. And wait until the plumb is frozen in place. Here you have a straight line. Finger the second nail in the bottom of the wall in such a way that the thread and the clove hat are on the same line. Look at the picture on the left.
In the same way, perform manipulation from the opposite part of the wall. We got 4 nails driven around the perimeter, and two smooth lines on both sides.
Now take another thread and stretch it from the end of one lower or upper nail to the opposite end of the other, crosswise. And see that the thread stretched obliquely does not touch the wall. All with threads finished. Now take a flat stick or and lean it against two nails on one side of the wall.
Dilute the mixture and fill the space between the stick and the wall with a spatula. And wait. Must dry out. Here you have a straight straight line, it will be a beacon. Check it with the mounting level. Do the same manipulations on the other side of the wall. It's not complicated. Dilute 10 liters of rindband and put a trowel on the wall with large strokes.
After take the rule and smooth the stick and level the superimposed mixture. Move up and down, or vice versa, along the beacon lines. If there is little rattling - add more until the wall takes a flat surface. The angle can be adjusted using a spatula. That's all, do everything right. Good luck to you. Video on the alignment of walls.
