Clapboard trim was used in the first passenger trains when railway traffic appeared. Hence the name came from. Cladding a balcony with a do-it-yourself clapboard does not present great difficulties. But before you get started, you need to purchase materials. The raw materials for this variety of finishing materials are high-quality lumber and plastic.
What is a plastic lining?
When the question arises of how to sheathe the lining of a balcony, it is necessary to recall the existence of plastic. An excellent material that is resistant to ultraviolet radiation, water, corrosion is a lining made of plastic, which can last up to 40 years. The design is represented by a wide variety of coatings and colors, various standards of width and length, ease of installation. The accompanying product range offers rail kits that simplify the installation of these panels. Textures imitating wood, marble coating, flower clearing or the seabed will make the appearance of the balcony less formal, but this will not affect the quality of the finish. Plain color and white panels can be combined and create your own interesting and bright solutions, especially since the material is perfectly washed and does not require chemical treatment, does not dry out and does not swell. When you install, cutting such a panel takes seconds.
What is a wooden lining?
From the wood massif of various species is produced by folding or tongue-and-groove lining, which has standards of thickness, width and permissible length. This material undergoes special treatment against fungus and insects. How to clap a clapboard balcony? To do this, you need quality material. The lining grade is determined by the indicator of natural humidity. For the highest grade, this indicator is from 8 to 12%. The service life is about 20 years, except for oak. Despite the presence of an industrial protective layer, this material after installation requires painting with varnishes or paints. The quality of the material is influenced by the types of profile, the dimensions of the panels, the type of wood and its grade. “Extra” premium grade includes blanks without defects, with a seamless pattern without knots and cores. Small spots or millimeter cracks reduce the grade to classes A, B and the lowest - C. If the purchased material is of the highest grade, the balcony will delight you with its beauty for a very long time. But wood requires constant care and updating the protective paint layer.
Which wooden clapboard to choose?
Euro lining made from premium Extra grades is considered to be the best. On the surface of these expensive blanks there are practically no defects and defects, therefore this high-quality material is used for decorative purposes. During the manufacture of eurolining, special attention is paid to the aesthetics of different types of wood. The most expensive is the covering of the balcony with a wooden lining made of hardwood - oak, aspen, ash, alder, linden, belonging to the first category.
Softwood blanks represent the second category. But you should not use such a lining on the balcony due to sudden changes in temperature, and on the south side the sun can provoke tar and essential oil emissions. Therefore, when buying materials, it is worth considering such features that the expensive decoration of a balcony or loggia for many years pleased with the fine texture and warmth of the wooden coating.
Which panels are the best?
The texture, color, individual consumer characteristics of the wood provide the beauty and quality of the lining, and each species of wood even has a different aroma. Wooden panels give sound absorption, thermoregulation, comfort and beautiful appearance. How to sheathe a balcony with the highest quality lumber? Deciduous species, which do not emit any substances and are not afraid of the influence of temperatures, have special properties. Oak lining for durability, substantial strength, unique texture, resistance to water is unparalleled and deservedly holds the position of elite expensive material. In addition to these expensive species, aspen, birch and other lumber are widely used.
How much does the lining of the balcony cost? The design of a balcony with such material is very expensive, but the material serves as a century without losing its qualities.
What is the most beautiful lining?
Exclusive panels that create unique coziness and have rarely encountered quality and texture are made of linden and alder. How to sheathe a balcony with the most beautiful material? Lining from linden is an expensive material for which 80-year-old trees are used, with humidity from 8 to 10%. Linden panels are a light, soft, but durable material, with a delicate and tart honey aroma, which has excellent positive energy. As an array, Caucasian, Crimean, dark green, white linden having uniquely white wood is used. Finished panels have a thickness of 0.15 m and a width of the decorative surface - 0.88 m, length - 1-3 meters.
Panels made of black alder are a rare material resistant to germs, fungi, rot, with unique decorative and high-quality properties. Soft wood has an interesting texture and a wide range of shades from the color of coffee with milk to dark chocolate with a marble pattern. It goes well with linden or aspen.
How to create a frame for cladding clapboard?
Proper cladding begins with the treatment of walls and battens with an antifungal composition. How to clap a clapboard balcony? Do not attach the material directly to the wall. To create the frame, bars with a rectangular section from 10 mm x 20 mm to 25 mm x 50 mm are used. If there are no large differences on the wall, the surface is quite smooth, then it is possible to use laths of smaller thickness in order to preserve usable space. The bars are mounted on screws, and in the concrete wall, plastic sleeves in pre-drilled holes, to a depth of at least 3 cm, must be glued. Small gaps should be left between the bars for ventilation. The wall is pre-treated with a water-repellent mixture. Larger bars are attached to an uneven wall using a plumb line to create a skeleton without distortions. The bars are necessarily treated with a mixture of parasites and fungi. Thin wedges will help correct bumps. Reiki is perpendicular to the direction of the future finish. The recommended distance between the bars is from 0.5 to 0.8 meters. Be sure to stroke the rails of the window and doorways.
How to sheathe a balcony with a plastic lining?
Often, a plastic substitute is used as the material, which is not inferior in aesthetic and consumer properties to its wooden counterpart. The beginning of work traditionally begins with treating the wall surfaces with an antifungal compound, and then the lining of the balcony begins with clapboard. Step-by-step instructions for plastic are very simple.
Attach the rack frame evenly in increments of about 0.7 meters horizontally - for the vertical arrangement of decorative panels. And vice versa for the horizontal position of the lining. Fix special guides under the ceiling and on the floor, which fix the position of the lining.
The panels can be fastened with nails or screws to the panel spike, which is closed with the next strip, previously inserted into the guides.
Do-it-yourself lining the balcony with a clapboard will be even easier if you purchase, in addition to direct guides, a complete set of corners and holding mounting profiles for plastic panels. Such a profile does not require additional processing.
How to sheathe a balcony with a wooden lining?
How to clap a clapboard balcony? Fastening is done with nails that are hammered into the tongue along an oblique line, with clips installed along the groove, with screws or staples with a professional stapler. If a lining with a displacement of the profile is used, that is, there is an internal wide lock, any fastenings are used, from nails with a small hat to staples or clips. Fastenings are closed by the following level. If the material is fixed with screws, then the hole in the lining spike is pre-drilled, then the screw is twisted and recessed into the wood, the hole is sealed with putty or a piece of dowel. The stapler copes with installation perfectly. The brackets quickly fasten the spike of the finishing material at a small angle, into which the next plank then enters. Start work from a corner with a vertical finish. With horizontal - from top to bottom.
Small subtleties
A few subtleties when plating will help to avoid unnecessary work. How to sheathe a clapboard balcony? Under the ceiling and above the floor, you need to leave a few centimeters of clearance for air circulation, for which you can attach thin slats for the duration of work, and then remove them. If there are sockets on the balcony, they are unplugged and cleaned. After fixing several panels, a hole of about 50 mm is made under the outlet, where the wires are output. If the outlet moves, then the wires must be enclosed in an insulating tube, which is located behind the panels, and make a conclusion in the right place. All protruding corners, fragments of the frames of the doors and windows are covered with decorative strips, baseboards - by the floor. The last two bars near the corner are easy to install, if, having cut off the lock at the extreme, put them in place with a "house" and press down, as a result of which they will fit snugly into place. Minor damage can be sanded. Coating with varnish or other protective composition is carried out 2-3 times after absolute drying.
How to clap a clapboard balcony? This question no longer seems so scary. There is knowledge, it remains to put them into practice.