Open pipes will not add beauty to the interior. But to hide them, you do not need to break the walls. Just cover them with drywall. A lot of wires and cables leading to a PC, television panel, audio equipment, do not show in a beautiful interior. Cover them again with drywall. And you can also make light partitions, straighten the wall, create pilasters, cornices, shelves, niches. And also from this simple material. Drywall allows you to create even very small spaces, change the shape of the ceilings, make arches, in a word, much that will take the imagination.
A gypsum plate is a building material that consists of a high -quality cardboard shell covering the base from a special gypsum with reinforcing, hydrophobic, anti -Greeb additives. Adhesive products are used to adapt the shell and core. The advantage of plates is easy access to hidden equipment. In the case of reconstruction, the dismantling of drywall (or part of it) is less expensive than dismantling a stone wall. It is worth noting that immediately after installing drywall, you can immediately complete the repair of plaster or laying ceramic tiles. Like the laminate, it has a perfectly flat surface and does not require prolonged leveling, like brick walls.
The material is attached to metal profiles using dowels and screws, taking into account the thickness of the stove. You can install slabs and with the help of glue, however, it is difficult to achieve the desired strength here, since such a wall does not withstand large weight loads. In bathrooms and kitchens, significant protection against moisture is very important. Drywall surfaces, which will directly contact with water, it is necessary to isolate the protective film. It is worth paying attention to the corners – the locations of the plates, holes for pipes and cranes. You can protect these places with a flexible silicone, use elastomeric coatings – ready -made tapes that allow, due to its flexibility, to effectively protect drywall.
How to disguise the lighting wires? The easiest way is to hide them behind a suspended ceiling. The ceiling can be made as an island above the center of the room, a strip around the perimeter of the room, multi -level, etc. D. The chandelier is attached to the main ceiling, and small and light lamps, LED lamps directly to drywall. After installation, the slabs are primed, and then painted with acrylic, latex, vinyl paints or immediately pasted over the wallpaper of any type. Ceramic tiles are another excellent material for decorating a drywall wall.
