Which ceiling profile for drywall is best to choose? How to fix a ceiling to it? Together we will seek answers to these important and relevant questions.
The owners of city apartments are trying to find the perfect options for turning their housing into an unusual, comfortable paradise for living.
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Among the original design solutions, the combination of drywall and stretch ceiling can be mentioned. This combination has become one of the most fashionable trends of the last few seasons. If you use harmoniously drywall and stretch ceiling , 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 scheme.
The specifics of a modern ceiling
It can be selected by color, shape, number of levels. In many situations, the combination of materials is possible when thinking over a multi-level ceiling design. For work, you must purchase a ceiling profile for drywall.
Simple construction
A rectangular plasterboard box is the simplest type, which is arranged around the perimeter of the room. A full-fledged ceiling design assumes an initial foundation, so the first step is to create drawings. If you do not pay due attention to it, it will be difficult to make a high-quality and beautiful ceiling. After the appearance, as well as the basic elements of the future design will be thought out, you can proceed to the marking of the surface.
The Knauf ceiling profile allows you to create a solid frame. It is fixed in two directions, getting a strong metal grill. Since the plasterboard ceiling is a complex structure, professionals should deal with its arrangement.
Lighting Selection
How to choose lighting for a plasterboard ceiling?
In order for the design of the room to be completed, it is necessary to pay close attention to the issues of lighting the home. There are several options for creating decorative lighting near the plasterboard ceiling. Thinking over the lighting of the plasterboard ceiling, you can use creativity and imagination.
For example, an excellent solution is the illumination of neon fluorescent lamps using electronic ballasts.
Nowadays, a plasterboard ceiling with a two-level backlight is considered quite common.
The ceiling profile is necessary so that the finished coating is aesthetic and beautiful. Inside the box, which differs in size and shape, LEDs, fluorescent devices, duralight are installed. A combination of spot or halogen spotlights is also permitted.
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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 plus is that energy-saving lamps do not negatively affect the eyes, creating a harmonious and beautiful illumination in the room.
Ceiling Profile Options
Nowadays, plasterboard ceilings have become commonplace in urban apartments, as they are convenient and practical, moreover, they are quite affordable by price criteria.
That is why the ceiling profile and accessories are in demand when arranging curly, multi-level, single-level ceilings.
For the most part, two types of profiles are chosen for plasterboard ceiling sheets: UD and CD.
The ceiling profile has a special marking - at the end there is a Latin letter D.
UD Profile Features
Ceiling suspensions 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 with its help create curly 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 is characterized by this ceiling profile, the dimensions of which are indicated above? This profile has smooth side partitions. The lower one is profiled to increase rigidity. The manufacturer offers customers options with a thickness of 0.4 to 0.55 mm. In addition, fixing the ceiling profile can increase the reliability of fixation.
CD profile specifics
This aluminum ceiling profile takes over the main load during the installation of the plasterboard ceiling. For one sheet of material, at least four such profiles are required. CD frame mounting 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 ceiling guide profiles do manufacturers offer? For the arrangement of the frame of the gypsum plasterboard ceiling, applied profiles with the last letter W in the marking are used.
The first letters are similar to products manufactured for the ceiling frame:
- U is an auxiliary view;
- C - main profile
Apply the UW profile to equip the second or third level of plasterboard ceiling. To do this, metal structures are installed on additional suspensions or fastened to the main ceiling.
The main parameters of this profile:
- height - 5 cm;
- width - 5 cm, 7.5 cm, 10 cm;
- length - 300-400 cm
Depending on the manufacturer producing this profile for plasterboard and suspended ceilings, the metal thickness is 0.4 - 0.55 mm.
CW Profile
This ceiling profile for a stretch ceiling has smooth side partitions, a profiled main one that increases its rigidity.
For the most part, the UW profile is used to install partitions between rooms. In the case of arranging the ceiling frame, it is used only to create different figures, if the UW view is additionally used.
The main parameters of the CW type:
- height - 5 cm;
- width - 5 cm, 7.5 cm, as well as 10 cm;
- length - 300-400 cm
Additional items
The impact dowel is characterized in that the screw is hammered into it. Manufacturers offer similar kits of different diameters and lengths.
To assemble the drywall frame from the kit offered in construction stores, you only need a plastic dowel. Since this dowel is flared, it will not fall into the voids in the ceiling.
For such a dowel, professionals recommend purchasing thicker screws than those that are offered in the finished kit.
A dummy dowel is used not only for walls, but also for creating a plasterboard ceiling. In some cases, they fall into the ceiling, so the craftsmen try to pick up flared dowels with a small hat for work.
For the manufacture of gypsum ceiling frames, dowels with a diameter of 6 mm are mostly used. If there are no ready-made flared dowels-dummies in the hardware store, you can purchase percussion options using screws for other purposes from the kit.
The use of screws
To fix the suspended ceiling frame with a dowel 6 mm in diameter, the craftsmen use self-tapping screws 70-100 mm long. Small self-tapping screws (fleas) are chosen for mounting metal profiles among themselves, or for fixing it with a suspension.
When buying fleas, it is necessary to check their landing on the appropriate nozzle. In the ideal case, the self-tapping screw should be located horizontally, otherwise it will be difficult to work with it.
U-shaped suspensions (pawns) are necessary to perform the installation of profiles on the ceiling under drywall. Also, suspensions are used for other purposes, for example, as a clamp, jumpers, as they are flexible perforated plates.
Install drywall sheets in two ways:
- gluing to the base;
- fastening to the main frame.
In the second version of the installation of drywall, special metal profiles are used to create the battens. In the process of creating the frame, metal elements are used in the form of profiles of rack-mount and guide rails.
When gluing drywall sheets to the ceiling, only the simplest single-level coatings can be created. Carrying out the installation of the material on a special crate, you can count on obtaining multi-level modern coatings. The finished ceiling can be supplemented with hidden illumination with mounted 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 easily be hidden behind metal profiles. Built-in additional lighting is installed in the ceiling, as well as a hidden LED backlight. 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 the installation of drywall sheets allows craftsmen to create multi-level ceiling structures of individual shapes in city apartments and suburban mansions.
When creating profiles for the ceiling from GKL sheets, manufacturers use cold rolled galvanized steel. The main purpose of such load-bearing metal elements is to assemble the lathing during the design of ceiling structures. Apply metal profiles to create niches, false partitions, built-in cabinets.
Girders are made of high-strength steel. Such structures have an additional anti-corrosion coating made of galvanized steel. Rails are favorably distinguished by their 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 load-bearing crate, on which the installation of drywall coatings is carried out, have other advantages. Galvanized steel reliably protects these strips from corrosion, which makes it possible to use the crate even in rooms with a high level of humidity. Steel products have no restrictions on the operational life. The durability and strength of steel rails ensures that they retain their original characteristics during attacks of rodents, insects. Sheet steel can be cut with metal scissors. Among the few drawbacks of metal profiles, it is worth noting their high cost.
Special types of frame structure elements that contribute to its strengthening, facilitate finishing, and also give an unusual shape, are familiar to professionals. For example, a reinforced UA profile is used to create racks for mounting partitions and doorways. Depending on the purpose for which the metal profile is used, it can be selected not only in length but also in thickness of the metal.