Which ceiling profile for drywall is best to choose? How to fix the ceiling to it? Together we will look for answers to these important and relevant questions.
City apartment owners are trying to find the perfect options to turn their home into an unusual, comfortable paradise.
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Among the original design solutions, we can mention the combination of plasterboard and stretch ceiling. This combination has become one of the most fashionable trends of the last few seasons. If you use drywall and stretch ceiling harmoniously, you can achieve excellent results, create an original interior in the room.
Designers offer a huge number of ways to combine such finishing materials. For example, you can plaster sheets of drywall, then paint them with your favorite color.
Specificitycontemporary ceiling
It can be selected by color, shape, number of levels. In many situations, combining materials is possible when thinking through a multi-level ceiling structure. For work, you must purchase a ceiling profile for drywall.
Simple construction
Rectangular drywall box is the simplest type, which is equipped around the perimeter of the room. A full-fledged ceiling structure assumes an initial foundation, so the first step is to create drawings. If you do not pay due attention to this, it will be difficult to make a high-quality and beautiful ceiling. After the appearance, as well as the main elements of the future design, are thought out, you can proceed to the marking of the surface.
The ceiling profile "Knauf" will allow you to create a solid frame. It is fixed in two directions, getting a solid metal grill. Since the plasterboard ceiling is a complex structure, it should be done by professionals.
Selection of lighting
How to choose lighting for a plasterboard ceiling?
In order for the design of the room to be complete, it is necessary to pay close attention to the lighting of the home. There are several options for creating decorative lighting for a plasterboard ceiling. Thinking through the lighting of a plasterboard ceiling, you can use creativity and imagination.
For example, an excellent solution is to illuminate neon, fluorescent lamps usingelectronic ballasts.
These days, a plasterboard ceiling with two-level illumination is considered quite common.
The ceiling profile is necessary for the finished coating to be aesthetic and beautiful. Inside the box, which differs in size and shape, LEDs, luminescent devices, and duralight are installed. A combination of hidden or halogen spotlights is also allowed.
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The ceiling profile is selected so that it can be fixed around the entire perimeter of the ceiling. If the plans include fixing several spotlights in a plasterboard ceiling, you can distribute them evenly or make separate lighting zones of 5-6 elements. Their advantage is that energy-saving lamps do not negatively affect the eyes, creating a harmonious and beautiful lighting in the room.
Ceiling profile options
Today, plasterboard ceilings have become commonplace in urban apartments, as they are convenient and practical, and also quite affordable.
That is why the ceiling profile and accessories are in demand when arranging figured, multi-level, single-level ceilings.
For the most part, two types of profiles are chosen for plasterboard ceilings: UD and CD.
The ceiling profile has a special marking - at the end there is a Latin letter D.
UD profile features
Ceiling hangers for profiles of this type play an auxiliary function for the second type. UD is used for the most part around the perimeter of the room, in some cases it is used to create figured elements of the ceiling frame. We list its main parameters:
- width - 2.5 cm;
- length - from 300 to 400 cm;
- height – 2.5 cm.
What else characterizes this ceiling profile, the dimensions of which are indicated above? This profile has smooth side walls. The lower one is profiled for increased rigidity. The manufacturer offers customers options with a thickness of 0.4 to 0.55 mm. In addition, fixing the ceiling profile can improve the fixing strength.
CD profile specifics
This aluminum ceiling profile takes the main load when installing a plasterboard ceiling. For one sheet of material, at least four such profiles are required. Installation of the CD frame is carried out on special U-shaped suspensions. They are attached to the main ceiling, and its edges are placed in the UD profile.
Other types of profiles
What other guide profile do manufacturers offer? To equip the frame of the plasterboard ceiling, re-wall profiles will be used, having the last letter W in the marking.
The first letters are the same as for ceiling frame products:
- U is an auxiliary view;
- C - main profile
Use a UW profile for arranging a secondor a third level plasterboard ceiling. To do this, metal structures are installed on additional hangers or attached to the main ceiling.
Main parameters of this profile:
- height - 5 cm;
- width - 5cm, 7.5cm, 10cm;
- length - 300-400cm
Depending on the manufacturer producing this profile for plasterboard and stretch ceilings, the thickness of the metal is 0.4 - 0.55 mm.
CW profile
This ceiling profile for stretch ceiling has smooth side baffles, profiled core, increasing its rigidity.
For the most part, the UW profile is used for mounting partitions between rooms. In the case of arranging the ceiling frame, it is used only to create different shapes, if the UW view is additionally used.
Main parameters of CW type:
- height - 5 cm;
- width - 5 cm, 7.5 cm, and 10 cm;
- length - 300-400 cm
Additional items
The impact dowel is different in that the screw is driven into it with a hammer. Manufacturers offer similar kits of different diameters and lengths.
To assemble a drywall frame from the kit offered in hardware stores, you only need a plastic dowel. Since this dowel is flared, it will not fall through the voids present in the ceiling.
For such a dowel, professionals recommend purchasing thicker screws than those thatoffered as a complete set.
The dowel-dummy is used not only for walls, but also for creating a plasterboard ceiling. In some cases, they fall inside the ceiling, so the craftsmen try to select flared dowels with a small hat for work.
For the manufacture of a plasterboard ceiling frame, for the most part, dowels with a diameter of 6 mm are used. If the hardware store does not have ready-made flared dummy dowels, you can purchase percussion options using screws from the kit for other purposes.
Use of self-tapping screws
To fix the suspended ceiling frame with a dowel 6 mm in diameter, craftsmen use self-tapping screws 70-100 mm long. Small self-tapping screws (fleas) are chosen for mounting metal profiles between themselves, or for fixing it with a suspension.
When buying fleas, you need to check their fit on the appropriate nozzle. Ideally, the self-tapping screw should be horizontal, otherwise it will be difficult to work with it.
U-shaped hangers (pawns) are required for installation of profiles on the ceiling under drywall. Hangers are also used for other purposes, for example, as a clamp, jumper, as they are flexible perforated plates.
Perform the installation of drywall sheets in two ways:
- by gluing to the base;
- attached to the main frame.
In the second version of the installation of drywall, special metal profiles are used to create the crate. In the process of creating a framemetal elements are used in the form of rack profiles and guide rails.
When gluing drywall sheets to the ceiling, only the simplest single-level coatings can be created. By mounting the material on a special crate, you can count on obtaining multi-level modern coatings. You can complement the finished ceiling with hidden lighting with built-in lamps.
Advantages and disadvantages of metal profiles
Profiles are indispensable for surfaces that have significant flaws. Engineering communications, ceiling defects, other distortions - all this can be easily hidden behind metal profiles. Built-in additional lighting is installed in the ceiling, as well as hidden LED lighting. With the help of a metal frame, you can get a solid base for the future ceiling. This design is characterized by moisture resistance, long service life, as well as increased strength. The frame technology for mounting drywall sheets allows craftsmen to create multi-level ceiling structures of an individual shape in city apartments and country mansions.
When creating profiles for ceilings from drywall sheets, manufacturers use cold-rolled galvanized steel. The main purpose of such load-bearing metal elements is to assemble the lathing in the design of ceiling structures. Metal profiles are used to create niches, false partitions, built-in wardrobes.
Building rails are made of steel with increasedstrength. Such structures have an additional anti-corrosion coating made of galvanized steel. Building rails compare favorably with durability, they are used to create modern multi-level ceiling structures, as well as to create original false partitions.
In addition to durability and strength, the metal elements used to create the supporting crate, on which the installation of drywall coatings, have other advantages. Galvanized steel reliably protects these strips from corrosion, which allows the use of the crate even in rooms with a high level of humidity. Steel products have no restrictions on the service life. The durability and strength of steel rails ensures that they retain their original characteristics when attacked by rodents and insects. Sheet steel can be cut with metal shears. Among the few disadvantages of metal profiles, it is worth noting their high cost.
Special types of elements of the frame structure, contributing to its strengthening, facilitating finishing, as well as giving an unusual shape, are familiar to professionals. For example, a reinforced UA profile is used to create racks when installing partitions and doorways. Depending on the purpose for which the metal profile is used, it can be selected not only by the length, but also by the thickness of the metal.
