This is the finished ceiling of
. To date, a suspended ceiling made of gypsum board is perhaps the most optimal solution if you want a smooth, modern, aesthetic ceiling covering, not spending so much money on it. Another plus of the drywall ceiling is that you can handle the installation work yourself! No, of course, no one will assure you that even a child can cope with this task. Of course, to mount a ceiling of gypsum board, you need to know how to do it. This is what we are going to teach you today. And if you, first, carefully read the recommendations, and secondly, you will carefully execute them, then you will succeed!
Advantages of creating a ceiling from gypsum board
First, look carefully at your ceiling. Do you see cracks, irregularities, chips and a bunch of other defects? And now imagine how you will smooth it all up, putty, mask, align. .. Do not really want to get involved in such an "adventure", right? A suspended ceiling of gypsum board will just close all these defects, and no one will see either this cracks, or that spot.
In addition, drywall - a real godsend for a home designer. In the ceiling of gypsum board, a man with relatively skillful hands can easily mount the decorative lighting. Or ventilation. Or a mirror. Can you imagine a mirror on the ceiling? It can give a unique charm to your bedroom, but this is a completely different story. ..
Necessary material for the work of
Before you go to the building materials market for plasterboard, you need to decide which type of material you need. Too thin gypsum cardboard will not be appropriate in the room where you decided to hang a large chandelier or, as we mentioned above, to fix a mirror on the ceiling. A thin sheet can simply not stand, break, and all your designer beauty will collapse down. If you choose too thick a sheet, your room can visually decrease in size( of course, if your goal is to visually reduce the room with too high ceilings, then thick plasterboard will be an excellent choice!).Most often, home designers choose sheets with a thickness of 9.5 mm. Such a drywall and a five-round chandelier will withstand, and your living space will not "steal".If that ceiling, that you decided to finish with plasterboard, is in the bathroom, bath, sauna, then choose a waterproof and fireproof material.
After determining the type of drywall, make a list of tools and fasteners. So, you will need a tape measure, a spatula, a drill, sandpaper, a level( water or laser, which you are more used to using), a screwdriver( you can use a screwdriver).Buy also special suspensions, anchor wedges( dowels-nails) for their fastening, screws and screws with metal burr( for fixing the drywall itself), ceiling and guiding profile, connecting crabs.
Ceiling mounting
Step one. Take the level( which you have - laser or water) and note at what level the suspended ceiling will be. If you are planning to do built-in ventilation or lighting, back off from the present ceiling 10-12 centimeters.
We retreat from the ceiling 10-15 cm
Step two. Drill holes in the guide profile for dowels( optimal interval between holes - 50-60 centimeters) and these same anchors attach the profile to the walls.
Drill a hole with a small diameter drill bit
Step three .Fasten the suspension( on them then you will attach the supporting profile).Suspensions are attached to the guide profile using metal anchors. Strengthen them in parallel.
An example of mounting hangers on the ceiling
This is how the
suspension looks. Step Four .Take the parts of the supporting frame and carefully insert them into the guide profile. Support the frame to the suspension( using self-tapping screws for metal).To ensure that the frame is rigid, we fix the longitudinal profiles. To the guiding profiles is attached using special crabs( you also bought them, remember?).
The frame is almost ready, do not forget to throw out the wires for the wiring!
Crab for fixing the profile to the guides
Step five .You should have a framework of profiles. It is carefully lined with sheets of plasterboard( do this with a metal screw, the distance between the screws is about 20 centimeters).The joints between the sheets are covered with putty. Then you superimpose reinforcing mesh or band-serpyanka, shpaklyuete and carefully grind irregularities.
We fasten plasterboard with
self-tapping screws. The ceiling is ready, but the joints of
are still. The ceiling is ready, but we still see the joints. Do not worry - it does not matter, and so it should now be necessary to take filler and plaster all the joints and holes from under the screws. The whole ceiling is ready, but we will not stop there! .Let's make the second tier of the ceiling, thereby decorating our ceiling! .Let's get started! .
Decoration of a ceiling from plasterboard
First of all we need to decide on the pattern that we want to make, of course we can draw a star in the center or intricate shapes, but saving time I would advise you to do as small a form as possible,heavier and more intricate, the more time it takes to create a framework for it. But we do not dissuade you, but on the contrary, if we do something, let's make a form in the form of a wave. First we will draw a drawing.
Drawing on the ceiling with a pencil
We will not describe the process of mounting, for the installation and fixing of the profile has been much said above, but here we will consider how to bend the metal profile in more detail in the figure.
We make incisions with the help of scissors
Make the stiffeners
Do not forget to put the wires under the spotlights.
Wires for lighting
Cut and fasten drywall
Luminaire holes can be cut with a knife
We insert
fixtures Finish, it remains only to stock up the plaster and plaster all irregularities and rejoice in the new ceiling. In this article, we examined several techniques for installing a ceiling from gypsum board, aswe made sure nothing difficult is the main desire and patience. For completeness, let's see the video.
