Pipe bypass Tension Ceiling

The stretch ceiling is one of the most popular ways to finish in residential and public premises. This is explained not only by its low cost, but also small labor and temporary costs. In addition, even unprofessional can be installed as a canvas, which also saves. But even in the simplest work, there are specific points that can spoil everything. In the case of tension ceilings, this is bypassing communications. In this article, you will learn how to get around the pipe with a tension ceiling and make it the most accurately as possible.

Specificity of tension ceilings

The installation of stretch ceilings independently without the help of professional masters is real, but still a rather difficult task, so before you take for it, thoroughly examine the whole theory and soberly appreciate your abilities. In this you will be helped by our articles: " Stretch ceiling in the bathroom: photo, installation features», « Stretch ceiling in the kitchen: photo, installation features», « Matte or glossy stretch ceiling - what to choose».

Each room has communications flying upwards, so the need to crawl through the tension ceiling is inevitable. Here it also lies the risk to spoil all the coating with one careless movement - the canvas, especially plastic, easy to break in direction when cutting. It should take into account that most manufacturers provide a guarantee on their products only in cases where the installation of the stretch ceiling is carried out by professional workers from the same company. At first glance, such a requirement is not entirely correct, but it is actually justified and saves the mass of the nerves to both parties. Therefore, if you decide to an independent installation, be prepared to take all responsibility for yourself.

So, when installing the stretch ceiling, the following sample situations arise:

1. You need to get around the heating pipe located in close proximity to the wall.
2. Several pipes are nearby, differ in diameter, or the stretch ceiling itself has a complex configuration.
3. Bypass takes place around the round element, the dismantling of which can be performed only on the one hand (usually a hood in the kitchen).

There are also non-standard situations that are less common than usual. For example, if the room has a large column or another volume obstacle to a complex configuration. In this case, rational and the easiest way will not be tormented with the cutting of the holes in the form of the column, but simply install two separate canvases and gently connect them with a special profile.

First method

The most common and easy way to crawl pipe by stretch ceiling. As a rule, it is used for white plastic powders and heating pipes that are available in each room.

Step-by-step instructions for mounting the ceiling around the pipe:

1. In advance, prepare the rectangular connecting profile of plastic, the color of which corresponds to the color of the canvas. The thickness of the plate should be 1-2 mm, and its dimensions must close the space from the baguette to the wall of the pipe surface of the pipe about 1 cm. The width of the plastic profile must correspond to the diameter of the heating pipe plus 2 cm of stock.
2. Take the cloth into the baguette and perform a section of a stationery knife or scissors with acute ends. Plastic plates will hold the cutting cloth and not give it "sprawling" further. But even in this case, it should be done very carefully, making the minimally deep incision and tightly pressing the film to the pipe.
3. The incision is best done in the place where the riser is closest to the wall - so in case of errors, the defects will be noticeable.
4. At the end of the cut line, make an incision cross-crosswise so that the free ends of the canvases can neatly bombard the pipe without folds and tension.
5. Cut the extra sections of the film, not forgetting to leave 2-3 cm of stock to fill them into the baguette.
6. Install the pad on the pipe. Such a decorative ring can be made with your hands from a plastic suitable color with a thickness of 2 mm, and you can buy in the store.

This technology is used for the most part for the installation of seamless stretch ceilings with white plastic lining for pipe crawling. If you are going to mount a colored fabric, pick up the decorative lining of the appropriate shade in advance. In some cases, it is possible to play in contrast, for example, pickup the purple lining to the yellow canvase.

Useful advice: If there is very little space between the communications and the wall, it is at all necessary to look for a suitable segment of plastic - you can simply trim the reinforcing ring of the corresponding diameter.

Second way

There is another way of stroke pipes by stretch ceilings used for surfaces with a complex configuration, or when the room has a pipe of various diameters, and standard linings are not suitable for them. In this case, plastic rings must be installed outside, but inside the canvas.

Pipeout Instructions Plastic Stretch Ceiling:

1. Preheat the ceiling cloth to the required temperature and pull it to the baguette.
2. Holding the film, make the markup exactly in the center of the pipe. If you miss a little - nothing terrible, because in the case of which the web can be slightly tightened, thereby compensating for minor defects.
3. Stick to the back of the web polyurethane reinforced ring so that it is located closer to the wall.
4. When the adhesive as it should be grabbed, make a cross cut on the canvas in the center of the ring.
5. Skip the edges of the cut through the ring up, and then apply them so that they keep behind the reinforcing ring at the top.
6. Cut the canvas towards the reinforcing ring to the nearest wall.
7. Put the ring with the canvas fastened into it.
8. The edges of the cut are rinsed to one piece of plastic lining, which will perform the function of a kind of lock on the cut.
9. Slit harpoon with a small segment of the canvas.
10. Tension the ceiling from the nearest angle.

Such plastic rings can be installed not only for the passage of heating pipes and other communications, but also when installing various lamps, signaling sensors and other equipment. On how to install the reinforcing ring and run the pipe in the stretch ceiling - in the video instructions below:

How to be with an exhaust?

It would seem that it would be no more difficult to do with the hood than with a heating pipe or any other obstacle, but in this case the problem is the features of the instrument. The fact is that during operation, the drawing duct is very warm up, which may well lead to a plastic stretch ceiling.

In such situations, it is necessary to ensure maximum protection of PVC films, building a temperature barrier. The easiest way to do is using the segment of plasterboard. Plasterboard is an environmentally friendly material, which is very often used specifically to enhance fireproof when finishing the premises. The second option is instead of the usual corrugated hood tube, install a sandwich tube with double walls and the heat-insulating layer between them. It is worth such an air duct.

To protect the edges of the ceiling film, use rings made of heat-resistant plastic. Exactly the same rings are used for mounting lamps, as well as when around the hot heating pipes.

Historical reference

Stretch ceilings seem to be a modern and unusual way to finish the premises, but few people know that the first stretch ceilings were popular in Ancient Egypt and Greece. Of course, then the PVC film was used, but the technology was almost identical - a silk fabric was stretched on the ceiling, decorated with patterns. When, after some time, the fabric began to sign, or the owner of the "apartment" wanted to change the interior, the workers simply stretched from above the new canvas.

In medieval Armenia, the technology of stretch ceilings was also practiced, but they used not silk for this, but a cotton fabric impregnated with a chalk solution. It was tensioned on a special frame around the perimeter of the room (nothing resembles?), And when the chalk solution dried, the canvas stretched independently and there was no single folding. Some masters and today practice such a way, only instead of chalk use water-emulsion paints.

In the early 70s of the last century, a light polyvinyl chloride film was launched instead of fabric, which did not seal and served much longer than any fabric. It happened in France, so initially stretch ceilings called "French". As they say, everything new is as follows the old one, and in the late 90s there appeared tissue ceilings on the market. They quickly gained popularity, because they did not require heating, which reduced the risk of damage to the walls of the walls and the complexity of work in general. Today, the market shows the widest range of film and tissue ceilings for every taste, and we hope that this article will help you make installation quickly and beautiful.