Suspended ceilings from plasterboard with own hands

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Planning a repair? Suspended ceilings of plasterboard can be installed manually if desired. All that is required of you - a little experience and knowledge of the nuances of the implementation of this process. We offer you a step-by-step installation guide for a simple ceiling construction with the use of plasterboard. Advantages of in using such material are obvious:

Contents of

  1. Brief instruction
  2. Basic stages of installation
  3. Photo of suspended ceilings from plasterboard
  4. Video installation of false ceilings from plasterboard
  • reinforcement of sound insulation;
  • aesthetic appearance;
  • the ability to hide various communications - electrical cables, computer networks, transformers, pipelines.

Suspended ceilings from plasterboard with their own hands with illumination create a special atmosphere in the room, look neat and beautiful as on photo .

Initially, gypsum boards were attached to a wooden frame. But experience has shown that wood has the property of deforming - shrink or swell, which subsequently led to deformation and the ceiling structure itself. Today, metal profiles are used during the installation.

Brief instruction

  • installation of the guide profile;
  • installation of U-shaped ceiling hangers;
  • connection of the outer and bearing profiles;
  • assembly of connection fasteners;
  • installation of transverse profiles;
  • height adjustment of the bearing profile;
  • fastening of gypsum boards on the received

structure. The basic stages of installation

Let's consider the basic stages of installation of gypsum plasterboard ceiling structures:

  • You want to do a good job - draw a skeleton diagram. Such a drawn instruction will help you correctly make all calculations and ensure maximum strength and reliability of the design. Then you need to set the desired height of the new ceiling. Using the building level, make special signs-marks on the walls. On this markup, the extreme profiles are fixed in the future.
  • On the ceiling draw a place where the carrier profiles will be fixed. Additional fastening should fall on the middle of a sheet of drywall.
  • Using the markings, fix the hinges on the ceiling. Directly on them and will be fixed load bearing profiles.
  • To prevent future deflection of the ceiling, center the additional fittings.
  • Now attach the extreme and load-bearing profiles. They cut to the correct length, the loaders are inserted into the extreme and fix the joint place.
  • Using special fasteners, connect the main carrier profiles and additional transverse profiles.
  • Along the entire perimeter of the carcass, bend down the edges of the hangers, and, using self-tapping screws, secure the frame for the future suspended ceiling. Now it is possible to mount directly the plasterboard to the received structure.

Want to make suspended ceilings from gypsum cardboard with your own hands - the video-instruction will visually acquaint you with all the subtleties and nuances of this uncomplicated process. If you want to depart from standard solutions in the design of a house, apartment, villa, you can make, for example, two-level ceilings or combined ceiling structures using plasterboard and stretch ceiling structures. This combination will make your interior more extravagant, interesting and unusual.

Photo of suspended ceilings from plasterboard

Video installation of suspended ceilings from plasterboard

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