Periodic apartment repairs, of course, are needed, but many owners are afraid of the need for large financial costs for repair work and dirt that is accompanying them. But the latest successes in the construction industry can help significantly reduce the time of repair work and make them less complex and dirty. One of the very exciting innovations in this area is the ceilings of the stretch type.
The pluses of stretch type ceilings
Specialists engaged in construction call the ceilings stretch systems, which consist of fabric or film stretched under the ceiling and attached using a specialized profile made of metal or plastic. It turned out that the ceilings of the stretch type are completely unrealistic to find any bad qualities, but there are many advantages:
The installation of stretch ceilings independently is performed for one day, not demanding a plus for the release of the room from furniture;
The structure of the stretch ceiling is not accompanied by the appearance of dust in the living area and a large amount of garbage;
The guaranteed period of exploitation of such ceilings exceeds 12 years;
It is possible to choose from the widest gamut of colors, includes more than 100 variations;
A large degree of environmental friendliness makes it possible to use stretch type ceilings in rooms where allergies live, because the ceilings have no aroma and do not mark substances that are harmful to health;
If water leaks from the upper floor to the canvas, then it will hold up to 100 liters of water per 1 m2, stretching and not allowing the gap. Thus, the apartment is saved from flooding;
Possessing dusting qualities, the ceilings of a stretch type do not collect dust on their own plane. But (with a great desire) they can always be wiped with a damp cloth;
The installation of a stretch ceiling not only decorates the interior in the room, but also makes it possible to hide all the visible flaws of the ceiling before;
The distinctive characteristics of the materials used make it possible to perform very unusual forms of the ceilings of the suspended – arches, ceilings in several levels, three -dimensional planes;
When the structure is submitted, the ceiling of the stretch type will not lose its own outdoor appearance;
installation of ventilated systems with your own hands, lighting, and also alarm and fire safety devices can be performed secretly using the space above the stretch ceiling;
Unlike other types of ceiling finishes (whitewashing, coloring), the stretch ceiling will not appear with some kind of crack or detachment;
The particularly exciting question, which is asked by possible owners of stretch ceilings: will the system of impact of the children’s ball or traffic jam from the opened bottle with champagne will keep the system? It’s nice that the answer to this question is absolutely always positive.
Types of stretch type ceilings
Fabric, covered by specialized compositions, which gives them obvious physical properties. Own high stability and strength to high and low temperatures. At the same time, they have a small degree of plasticity and unsatisfactory number of varieties of color design;
Film. Made from PVC film by the method of thermal shrinkage. A large number of textures are produced (matte, brilliant, velvet, etc.), and the gamut of flowers calculates over a hundred colors. The main difficulty is the property of the film supplied from China and Korea, where a haberdashery film is sometimes used for this.
According to the installation option:
Cold installation used for tissue ceilings of a stretch type, resembling a canvas stretch on the painting frame. A baguette is attached along the perimeter of the room, on which the fabric is pulled at room temperature. There was just a film, which can again be set using a cold stretch version, but its quality is still low;
Hot installation, when the film attached in the baguette is heated with a gas “gun”. Plus, the film is made plastic and stretches along the size of the room, remaining in these sizes when cooling.
On the width of the canvas:
Without seams – these are all varieties of ceilings using fabrics with a width of 5 m;
Suture- these are ceilings from a film welded from strips with a width of 1.5-2 m.
The canvas fastener method:
Curly -footed – when arranging stretch ceilings from fabric;
Harpoon. In the form of a harpoon, a half -rigid Kant of PVC is used to supply a film clutch with a profile attached around the perimeter.
According to the material, from which the fastener profile is made:
Aluminum;
Plastic.
By the type of clamp in the baguette:
Wedge mount;
Cord mount;
“Fist” clamp;
Baget – “clothespin”.
Instruments for installation
According to statistics, in our state, stretch seamless ceilings made of artificial fabric treated with polyurethane. And therefore (if a similar option is selected) at the beginning of work, it is necessary to purchase a preparatory calculated number of fabric and fasteners. Work should be done with the assistant. Before starting installation, you need to cook:
The required number of plastic dowels and screws;
Sharp knife;
Hammer;
Screwdriver;
Drill;
Glue for gluing the profile on the wall;
Roulette;
Construction level;
Construction hair dryer;
Specialized Spatel;
Street staircase.
List of preparation works
Before starting the installation of the ceiling of the stretch, the following work should be done:
Finish all operations for wall decoration (wallpaper sticker, coloring, etc.);
clean the area of the existing ceiling from irregularities and poorly attached parts;
make sealing the existing gaps;
clean the room from dust;
guarantee free access to the walls along the ceiling perimeter.
Stages of mounting the ceiling of the stretch. Installation of PVC films
Installation of the profile. With the help of roulette and level, the smallest point of the ceiling surface is. It is measured from it at a minimum of 2-3 cm (for the comfort of the profile fasteners) and a mark is made, which is then transferred along the perimeter of the room.
If the length of the rail of the mounting profile exceeds the length of the wall, then the required number of the profile is sawn down at an angle of 45O for the manufacture of strong satison at the corners of the room. Когда протяжённость рейки поменьше протяжённости стены, то соединения реек осуществляются под прямым углом и клеятся.
The fastener profile is mounted on the walls with glue. After the glue dries in the fastener profile, using a drill, holes for dowels with a step of 7 cm are drilled, but on the connections the holes are drilled at a distance of 2 cm from the edge.
The canvas is unfolded and fixed in the profile with a spatula, starting from the lowest corner of the room. (If the fabric is used to arrange the ceiling of the stretch, then it is first fixed on the side sides, and then at the corners). Then fixing the canvas in another corner is made, after which the canvas is fixed in the other corners of the room. After the canvas is pulled from the corners to the middle of the walls (reaching its same distribution) and is attached.
The mount is made using plastic dowels placed in previously made holes (using if you need a hammer), in which self -tapping screws are twisted. Between the fasteners, the distance is not required to be more than 80 cm.
In circular motions of a hairdryer located at a distance of approximately 20 cm from the ceiling surface, folds and wrinkles on the canvas are straightened.
With the help of a sharp knife, excess pieces of the canvas appearing outside the profile limit are cut and holes for lighting sources are cut, glued along the edge of a specialized heat -insulating tape.
Places of the joint of the stretch ceiling with the walls are covered with a decorative skirting board, in other words, a lining of hard or elastic plastic. Sometimes for these purposes, foam molding is used.
Video: Installation of stretch ceilings with your own hands
Pros of installation with your own hands
The most basic advantage of the performance of work on its own is the important money saving in comparison with the price of work performed by invited professionals. But there are other advantages:
Solution of such issues: what color the ceiling of the stretch to choose? You can do slowly, taking into account the upcoming solution on the interior and color palette of the room;
No need to wait for the dedicated execution of the order;
The quality of the work made by the owner of the apartment is quite always much higher than that of the hired master.
Some installation tips
When deciding on the use of a harpoon or an airbuilding design of the ceiling fasteners, you need to understand that the free -eyed structure is much cheaper than the harpoon, but it is one -time, and in the option of the need for ceiling repair, the installation and re -purchase of such a fastener system will be needed. The harpoon structure is expensive, but it is reusable.
If for some reason there was a cut of the ceiling ceiling, you need to seal the damaged area in order to not increase the size of the cut size. To braid the cut, you can use wallpaper from fiberglass or fabric tape.
If water got on the canvas and it is sagged, then you need to make (using a needle) a hole through which to remove water into a container, thus preventing the possibility of tearing the fasteners from the fasteners in the wall under the influence of increased weight.
The pluses of stretch type ceilings
Types of stretch type ceilings
Instruments for installation
List of preparation works
Stages of mounting the ceiling of the stretch. Installation of PVC films
Video: Installation of stretch ceilings with your own hands
Pros of installation with your own hands
Some installation tips [
