When a home interior requires something unusual or a ceiling overlap has noticeable flaws, the only solution is to install the false ceiling with your own hands.
In any room, the ceiling of the rack-type type looks good, which allows realizing the most daring design projects, for example, to decorate the ceiling with a soft backlight.
To install the ceiling in a room where it is always wet, that is, in a bathroom, use PVC sheets.
Polyvinyl chloride is easy to use, and most importantly - environmentally friendly.
Ceiling installation is a fairly simple construction project. Experts say that the most elementary way to make a false ceiling is to lay it out of cells.
Such a plate-cellular structure is called armstrong.
All this should be told more thoroughly.
Contents:
- Roof ceilings
- Ceiling panels made of plastic
- Ceiling-plated ceilings "Armstrong"
Roof ceilings
Roof ceilings are constructed from plastic, aluminum or steel panels. The thickness of these panels is at least 0.4 mm, as a maximum - only 0.7 mm.
The width of one cell varies between 50 mm and 30 cm. The longest panel is 6 meters in length.
Reiki is well laid both along and across the ceiling. And if you arrange them diagonally, you can achieve an amazing visual effect - the room will increase or, conversely, decrease in size.
If the room is somewhat narrow and quite large in length, the best option is to lay the racks horizontally.
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If you ignore this advice and arrange the racks differently - the room will look even longer.
The main difference between the types of rails is the way they are joined.
Some slats are not close to each other, there is a tiny space a little more than a centimeter between them.
After installing such a rack ceiling, decorative profiles are attached to the holes. There are also such slats that connect with the edges, forming a closed joint.
There is also a rack ceiling, one element of which is closely adjacent to the other.
Before starting the installation of a ceiling from the panels in the bathroom or in another room, it is worthwhile to understand the suspension system.
It includes a bearing niche, adjustable suspension, angular profiles. The tire is a steel base, equipped with locks, into which the slats are inserted and snapped.
The suspension has a support with a clip. The clip is attached to the tire, and the support to the ceiling.
There is an empty space between the ceiling and the suspension in the range from 5 to 12 cm. This figure will depend on whether or not the communication ceiling is located in the niche.
If the ceiling device of the bathroom becomes clear to the smallest detail, then you can proceed to installation.
But if there is even a drop of uncertainty that you can easily do everything yourself, see how to make a false ceiling on video.
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To perform the installation of a false ceiling, it is necessary to stock up with a drill and a perforator. But besides this you will need a building level and a roulette.
In this case, you can not do without a ruler, a marker, screws and dowels.
Installation begins with a simple marker. They designate the boundary of the new ceiling. From the old ceiling it is necessary to retreat at least 5 cm.
Then the construction level is in progress, helping to draw an even straight line along the entire perimeter of the room.
Use the drawn marks to measure the length of the wall to cut off the desired fragment of the angular profile. The standard profile has a length of three meters. He is cut with metal scissors.
The produced control profile is applied to the wall, always according to the drawn line.
Drill every 50-60 cm to drill small holes to screw in there screws and dowels, fixing their profile.
After that, the building level is checked to see if it has been fixed firmly.
On the fixing areas of the bus bars, you need to make marks using the tape measure. The first point is to be put away from the wall 30-40 cm.
And all the other marks should be left at a distance of 0.9 cm or 1 meter from each other. Drilled holes, and suspensions are attached to the screws and dowels. Correct attachment is checked by level.
Traverses( load-bearing tires) are placed at a distance of one meter from each other. They are installed in a vertical position with respect to the slats, at the same height as the profile.
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Traverses are connected to the suspensions with a screwdriver. Here, special care is needed in order not to make the design of the curve inadvertently.
Smooth arrangement of elements of a false ceiling - a guarantee of its beautiful kind.
Further action - installation of the rack ceiling. From the shelves remove the protective film, after which they cut into the size of the room.
They should be 30-50 cm less than the space between the two walls. Reiki need to be carefully inserted into the tires and secured with latches.
The installation of the slatted roof is completed by fixing the skirting boards. If the walls have errors, it is better to choose wide skirting boards that will visually fix the defects.
The rack ceiling in the kitchen and bathroom, in case of contamination, you can safely wash.
The elements of the rack ceiling are specially made of a material that does not deteriorate due to humidity, for example, from PVC.
Ceiling panels made of plastic
The suspended ceiling system made of plastic panels is installed without problems and suitable for any room, especially for loggias, toilets and kitchens.
The installation of this floor in the bathroom is able to hide communications, that is, ventilation and pipes.
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PVC panels do not absorb smells and beautiful hide the defects of the ceiling. If such panels are placed on the top of the bathroom, then you can not worry - PVC panels do not emit hazardous substances when heated.
In the building materials market there are models of PVC plastic panels with seams and without seams.
In length they can be 2.7 m, 3 or 6 meters. Their width is from 20 to 33 cm, and the thickness varies between 8 and 25 mm.
Rack panels with a length of 6 meters are taken to install the ceiling in large rooms. And standard panels have the following dimensions of length, width and thickness: 3 mm, 25 mm and 8 mm respectively.
A set of components for creating a false ceiling made of plastic PVC racks includes:
- frame base attached to the ceiling;
- corners for joining plinths;
- PVC panels;
- plinth with grooves for fastening panels;
- galvanized self-tapping screws with 2.5 cm press washer.
Wooden beams or metal profiles can serve as supports for floors. For a bathroom it is better to purchase metal profiles.
If you install wooden supports in the bathroom, the false ceiling will deform with time.
The metal frame is complemented by a guiding wall and ceiling profile( UD and SD).
To fix the ceiling profile on the floor between the floors will help direct U-shaped suspensions.
The support frame is fixed to the ceiling and walls using dowels and self-tapping screws with a size of 6 to 40 mm.
When it is required to bond the profiles to each other, use a cross crab and self-tapping screws, the drill bit for which is taken 12 mm.
When the perimeter, for example, of a bathroom, is marked, a profile is attached to the wall, fixing it with screws in 40 cm steps.
. With the axes of the bearing profiles, with an interval of one meter, 6-by-40 mm dowels are attached with U-shaped suspensions. Feet hangers with perforations are bent at right angles.
And then to them by means of screws make installation of ceiling profiles.
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Next comes the installation of plastic panels. First, in steps of 20 cm, a ceiling skirting board is fixed, and then slats are inserted into its notches.
The insert of plastic rails is made with fixing screws and a press washer. The next rack is inserted into the hole, tapping it a little to make the plate fully inserted.
And then there is fixing the PVC panel in the recess of the ceiling skirting.
To connect skirting boards in the corners, you can use already prepared corners. For the luminaire in plastic panels cut out a hole, and the lighting device is mounted on the previous panel.
How to properly make a suspended ceiling from PVC panels, will tell a video in the section.
Armstrong tile and cellular ceiling
To perform the installation of the Armstrong construction, measure the perimeter of the room, rounding the resulting figure to 3 meters. Extra centimeters of the ceiling will be easily cut off in the corners.
For a room three to four in size, a 37 m profile is used. So, about 80 cm of material will go to one square.meter ceiling.
Experts advise to round off quantitative figures of a profile and a material.
If the armstrong is soft and free of any stress, then the ceiling should be attached to the walls every 60 cm, and if it is hard and loaded, it is 2 times more likely.
To strengthen the structure, the mounting of load-bearing profiles is made vertically with respect to walls of short length. So armstrong becomes stronger, and the cover is saved.
Armstrong ceiling installation requires you to step back from the existing ceiling one meter. On the made mark around the walls draw a contour, along which the suspended ceiling will be located.
How to lay out armstrong shown in the video.
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As you can see, the principle of assembling Armstrong ceiling is simple to impossible. Cells need to be installed with a slight inclination, a little nudging in the corners.
Mount the false ceiling armstrong as long as the usual ceiling.
If you do not oppose to do it yourself and illuminate from above, then study a few tips:
- stretch ceilings can be decorated with a backlight simulating the starry sky;
- illuminate the room;
- to create an extraordinary light effect can be illuminated from under the cornices of the ceiling;
- can be limited to the simplest illumination, which creates a tape of LEDs;
- ceilings in two levels can be decorated with combined lighting;
- backlight can change and decorate the boring interior.
