DIY Plastic Panel Ceiling

You can make a hinged ceiling with your own hands, you need to repair the ceilings in the apartment, you can install a suspended ceiling from plastic panels yourself. Suspended ceilings do not require thorough preparation of the starting surface, since they simply close it, but installing such ceilings reduces the height of the room by 1015 cm. PVC panels can be of different sizes and colors. The length of the panels usually does not exceed 6 m. For the installation of a suspended ceiling, you must first perform a basic frame from a metal profile, to which the ceiling parts will be attached. A profile designed to install suspended ceilings can be bought in the construction market or at the building materials store. The ceiling profile is divided into a guide (for example, PNP 27/28), which is installed along the contour of the room and an intermediate profile (for example, PP 60/27), to which panels are attached. It must be marked with the help of the building level and marker the place of fastening the frame to the walls. The holes in the wall for fastening the metal frame can be made by a perforator, and the profile on the walls using screws or dowel-stoves can be fixed. Before installing the profile, think through the system of electrical wiring and lighting. If the lamps are mounted into the ceiling, then you should leave a place for the base of the bulbs, which usually has a length of 5 cm to 10 cm. The guide and intermediate profiles should be cut with a hacksaw on the metal into the same pieces in length, considering their number based on the size of the ceiling and installation with a step of 5060 cm. Pieces of the profile are connected together by metal screws for metal. You can make holes in the profile in advance or simply drive a screwdriver or cross screw for screws into profile. A magnetic nozzle holding self -tapping screws is very convenient for this. The plastic panels themselves are mounted on a metal frame quite simply, since they have special connecting grooves. The last panel may have to be cut with a hacksaw on metal or a kitchen knife if it does not enter completely. A ceiling skirting board is installed along the contour of the ceiling, which will close the panels and walls of the panel and the ceiling with a finished view. Particular attention should be paid to the angular joints of the plinth. Cut the baseboard at an angle is better using a special template. At first, the baseboard is attached only on the three sides of the room, in order to make it more convenient to put the panels. Having installed the first panel in the skirting board, the following put them, adjusting them in the length of the length and fixing them on the metal frame with a presshayboy screw. Before the final finishing of the ceiling, you need to make holes for installing lamps. These holes are planned in advance along the diameter of the selected lamp on the panels where the lamps will be installed. Do it conveniently at the junction of two panels. Semicircles can be cut out by ordinary stationery knife. It is better to install two such panels with the holes of the VSTOK and check how the lamp will stand. If everything is fine, then you will make holes in other panels by analogy. You can fit all the panels, and then, having removed them, make the wiring for lighting. Then set the panels again and remove the ends of the wires through the holes made. It is better to connect the wires with the help of terminals, and not by ordinary twisting. It is better not to use copper wires in wet rooms. After the end of electrical work, it is necessary to install the panels back, and the most difficult thing is to put the last panel and the last section of the baseboard so that the final type of ceiling pleases you.