Very often the question of replacement orleveling ceilings. Some people need to hide construction flaws, others want to update the ceiling and make it more modern. How to make a beautiful ceiling, this question worries many homeowners. There are several options for ceiling finishing, you can simply perfectly stretch the ceiling with your own hands, make it stretch, using a ready-made film coating, or you can use plasterboard (GKL). Installation of plasterboard panels is available to anyone who does not have certain construction skills.
The plasterboard ceiling is attached to the lathing,allowing you to level the ceiling and hide the wiring. Plasterboard coating perfectly levels the ceiling surface and is great for complex finishing options - multi-level ceilings with interesting design tasks and fantasies. Finishing a single-level ceiling with your own hands will cost much less than with hired workers. Considering that the installation of plasterboard panels is not such a complicated process, you can handle it yourself.
Tools and accessories for installation
Making a beautiful single-level ceiling with your own hands, as mentioned earlier, will not be difficult.
Scheme of elements of the lathing from a metal profile. Having selected all the tools and purchased the components, you can safely start working. To make a ceiling, you will need the following tools:
Typically, drywall is attached to the lathing,mounted from a metal profile. To make a ceiling covering, you will need plasterboard panels with a thickness of 9.5 or 12.5 mm, as a rule, for residential buildings they choose sheets of 9.5 mm. For a metal ceiling frame, you will need ceiling and guide profiles, as well as straight hangers and profile connectors, dowel nails and self-tapping screws for fastening sheets. Return to contents</a>
Installation of plasterboard ceilings
Scheme of fastening the frame to the ceiling.To get a beautiful ceiling, do not install the purchased sheets on edge before using them, because they can deform. To install a metal structure, you should choose a profile with a thickness of 0.55 to 0.8 mm. Manufacturers supply a profile up to 3 m long, if the length of the room is longer, you will have to extend it with special butt joints, securing each of them with self-tapping screws. To make a beautiful ceiling, you need to correctly measure the markings for the guide profile, taking into account the distance from the main ceiling and the placement of the chandelier or lamp. Basically, at least 10 cm are indented from the real ceiling so that there is enough space for electrical wiring and built-in lamps. After installing the guide profiles on the walls, hangers are attached to the ceiling space, on them C-shaped profiles. C-shaped profiles are attached over the entire area of the ceiling with a step of 60 - 70 cm. For perpendicular fastening of profiles at one level, connecting crabs are used, which are often of poor quality; in such cases, it is easier to use a standard profile cut into pieces. Return to contents</a>
The final stage
The plasterboard sheets are screwed to themetal frame. After connecting all the components, you should get a metal frame that resembles a grid. Next, you can screw the plasterboard with galvanized screws so that there are no traces of rust on the ceiling later. Drywall is a great opportunity to make a beautiful ceiling space. To get a perfectly flat surface, you need to rub and cover all the joints and places where the screws are screwed in with gypsum putty and a painter's mesh. It remains to apply paint to the finished surface. To make the ceiling beautiful, you need to paint it or glue wallpaper on it, which you consider most suitable. You can match the walls or, conversely, highlight it from the general background, there are many options here. The method of installing plasterboard panels on a metal frame is described above. There is another option - gluing the plasterboard to the main ceiling. This method is good for low ceiling surfaces, because it steals a minimum of height. But if the ceiling surface requires leveling, for example, due to differences in slabs, then this method will not work. Two-level structures will help, performing not only an aesthetic role, but also highlighting certain areas.
