Fast and high-quality mounting of gypsum cardboard the hands is quite possible if to know some subtleties and rules of preparation of material, alignment of walls and to have the step-by-step instruction.
Modern finishing materials allow to make quickly and qualitatively repairs, to hide roughnesses of walls, to mask water or sewage pipes, to create additional designs and decorative elements in rooms. Most often for these purposes use standard gypsum plasterboards as their universality and functionality allows to create any necessary forms without effort.
Gypsum cardboard preparation
Gypsum plasterboards meet all requirements of public health services – they are eco-friendly, safe, strong, do not burn and do not emit toxic substances. Fastening of sheets to wall, ceiling or any other supporting structure will not be special work even for the inexperienced builder if near at hand there is step-by-step instruction of mounting of gypsum cardboard. It will allow to perform works independently, without resorting to services of experts. It is quite possible to draw the sketch without the assistance of the designer and to make door arch, niche in wall, the built-in shelves or design support under the TV, using bent gypsum cardboard. A little more skills in construction will demand creation of multilevel ceiling with the built-in illumination – in this case, perhaps, nevertheless it is necessary to ask for the help to professionals.
For mounting of plasterboard designs the special metal section is usually used – in hardware store it is possible to choose several its versions: they are delivered by ready package in which the directing perforated profiles and profiles for fastening of sheets to form of P-shaped channel with the grooves necessary for exact bringing of parts at mounting of designs are included. Openings in the directing profiles are necessary for fast and convenient fastening of profiles to walls and plates of gypsum cardboard.
Rules of mounting of gypsum cardboard
It is quite simple to work with this material, it will be required only:
- stationery knife;
- the screw driver with set of special bits;
- the self-tapping screws 9-12 mm long called "bugs" or "sunflower seeds";
- special rivets;
- self-tapping screws on metal 27 mm long;
- scissors on metal for cutting of profiles.
It is required besides the sketch of decorative design and centimetric ruler for exact marking of parts. One more important advantage of gypsum cardboard – it is easily formed and cut on pieces of the necessary size. For this purpose it is only necessary to cut through layer of cardboard and plaster on depth in several millimeters, without pressing knife, and then to make small physical effort and the necessary piece will easily and exactly break off. It allows to create gypsum cardboard of lyuy form and to use it for the purposes.
Beginning to work with this material, it is necessary to remember that for each purpose gypsum plasterboards with different characteristics are used:
- more dense or thin;
- waterproof or intended for dry rooms;
- intended for zoning of horizontal space or finishing of ceilings.
Gypsum cardboard puttying
At work the accuracy and attentiveness to parts is important – at covering of walls step-by-stepinstructiongypsum cardboard mounting can help, it is also desirable to use the construction level that the wall has turned out equal. If it is necessary to join pieces of the cut-off sheets, it is necessary to cut off their edges that in this place the equal triangle the basis outside has turned out. Subsequently the seam is filled with special putty or mix for sealing of joints, and from above is glued with the reinforcing tape – it will allow to avoid destruction of plaster basis, to disguise seam and to avoid clinking further if it is necessary to use bent gypsum cardboard.
For masking of joints in corners the special armoring lattice - "serpyanka" is used. It is imposed on crude putty and carefully smoothed with the palette. It is not necessary to neglect preliminary marking of walls – it will save time for correction of mistakes further.