Today there are several options for finishing the bathroom and one of the best is considered to be a PVC bathroom with a bathroom. This method allows not only to transform the interior, but also to save a lot. In order to make your choice, first you need to consider "strong" and "weak" sides of PVC panels. Tell me further. In addition, in this article we will consider the methods of fastening these panels on the walls.
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Benefits of material
The option of finishing with the bathroom panels can be called very economical. The point is that they are relatively inexpensive. This is perhaps the most important of them plus. The difference is especially felt if you compare with the cost of finishing the walls of the bathroom with tiled tiles. The differences in price here will be very significant.
Of the benefits, it is also worth noting that this material is simply mounting. PVC panels without special difficulties will attack any person on the walls, which at least a little has construction skills. By the way, the fact that the bathroom panels can establish almost everyone to the bathroom, is also an undoubted plus of this material.
As for the shortcomings, it should be, first of all, to note bad environmental friendliness. In addition, the final appearance is still inferior to the same ceramic tiles. Yet any kind of such panels are less aesthetic.
How to choose panels
Among the variety of PVC panels in the building materials market, choose the appropriate option for your case, sometimes not easy. With special responsibility should be taken to the arrangement of the bathroom. One of the main rules when choosing - to color and drawing approached the rest of the design.
If the size of the room is not very large, it is recommended to choose the wall panels for the bathroom of light shades. This will allow you to visually expand it and make more voluminous. It is best to choose the PVC panels in the bathroom, on which there are as few protrusions and patterns as possible. The fact is that the presence of irregularities and recesses on the surface of the panels contributes to the development of mold and the accumulation of dirt.
Particular attention should be paid to the ribs of rigidity. It is important to correctly assess their qualitative characteristics. In addition, they will be more, the strength of the material will be higher. These structural elements must be the right form, are not deformed, not curved. If any drawbacks are available, this indicates insufficient material quality. Perhaps the rules for its storage or transportation were violated. Next should be examined by the surface of the material. The color layer must be applied evenly, without flaws. If there is any drawing, then it should also have a clear shape and boundaries, do not spread and not unwind.
Before you buy PVC panels, it is recommended to carry out a simple test: connect two of them among them and see whether the joint is not visible - it almost should not be seen. The strength of the compound should be sufficient.
Please note that the rigidity ribs are not visible on the front surface. Best of all, the presence or absence of this defect to find out by looking at the part of the panel at an acute angle. In addition, inspect the opposite side of the product. It should not be any extraneous inclusions. This is considered a sign that the material was made only from high quality raw materials.
An important point is that the size of the panels must comply with the standards. This can be checked using simple measuring instruments. The size of the products themselves should be indicated on the packaging.
If you decide to sneak with PVC panels, then it is not worth saving. In general, it is advisable to buy materials for repair only in proven outlets, where you can get a guarantee of the quality of the purchased goods. Cheap material, especially in little-known places, do not purchase. It is quite possible - this is a cheap fake. However, the most expensive panels to buy are unreasonable. After all, the price does not always reflect the quality of the material.
Purchase PVC panels are recommended with a margin. The fact is that some of them will have to trim to install in the corners. Therefore, before you go to the store, you should remove the measurements from all the walls, which will help calculate the desired amount of material. In addition, when calculating, the size of the door in the bathroom should be subtracted. Knowing the number and price of one square. Meter material, you can roughly calculate your expenses for future repair. An example of calculation will be presented below.
Painting Bathroom Panels: Materials and Tools
Do not hurry to buy materials for finishing. In order not to overpay and purchase exactly how much how much you need, try to calculate the quantity. To do this, you need to find out the area of \u200b\u200bthe bathroom.
The sizes of the panels should also be known - they are standard. Knowing it, it is possible to easily calculate how much the panels are required for repair. For example, if the size of the material is 25 per 270 cm (width and length, respectively), then it is easy to find out the area simply moving these values. When the panel area is calculated and the bathroom area is known, you can easily calculate the desired number of panels, dividing the area of \u200b\u200bthe bathroom to the area of \u200b\u200bone panel.
In addition to buying a material, you should take care of the necessary tools. So, to install the panels will need a screwdriver and hacksaw for metal. When installing will have to do holes. For this purpose, you need a drill, and better, the perforator. In addition, during the work, you will need a building level and a stapler, as well as a roulette in order to remove the measurements. There are two main methods for fastening panels - on the crate and liquid nails. If the second option is selected, you will need to purchase additionally liquid nails.
How to make a bath panels: preparation
Preparation includes several stages:
- The first thing to be done is to free the room from all unnecessary things. In addition, if there is an old tile on the walls, it also needs to be removed.
- Before starting the installation of panels on liquid nails, you need to level the walls. For this purpose, it is possible to use a putty or cement solution. It does not prevent the walls of moisture-resistant drywall.
- It is not worth spending time on small irregularities. The fact is that the PVC panels themselves are quite flexible and therefore they can smooth out irregularities on the walls.
- Walls in any case must be covered by special stores that protect against the appearance of fungus.
- If the panels are mounted on the crate, then it is exactly it. By the way, in this case you will not need to align the walls, because The panels are already adjacent to the crate aligned, and not to the wall.
How to install the panels in the bathroom
Above, we stayed a little on such an important issue when finishing the bathroom with panels, as a need for aligning walls. In general, the plastic panels themselves have a rather important advantage - they allow you to hide the existing irregularities. But in some situations, before installing panels, it is still necessary to align the working surface. Such a case, for example, is the presence of large irregularities with a drop of more than 9 mm. It will not work tightly at the same level to secure the panel without additional leveling work.
It is worth saying that there is no point in doing perfectly smooth. It will be enough to remove the irregularities themselves, and everything else will hide under plastic panels.
Next, you should decide on the method of fastener panels. Here you usually use two options: self-tapping screws or glue. But note that if the panels are planted for glue, they will be difficult to tear off the walls in the future. Landing on glue, though a reliable way, but not deprived of flaws. For example, this option requires the implementation of such labor-intensive work as the preparation of the solution and applying it to the wall. There is no such lack when attaching to the self-tapping screw, which is also relevant for mounting the ceiling in the bath from the panels.
General rules finish
Perhaps everyone wants the coating to be high-quality. This is actually easy to achieve. Just comply with certain rules:
- So, the panels can be installed only if the air temperature indoors is at least +11 degrees.
- In general, the purchased panels are not recommended immediately after purchase. It is quite possible, they are in a warehouse for a long time. Therefore, let them lie down at least two days at room temperature, after which you can start work.
- It is also worth knowing that the change in temperature by 10 degrees leads to a small one, but still a change in the size of the material. Given this fact, it is necessary to provide for the ceiling and gender compensation gaps of 3-4 mm.
- If the bathroom has heating appliances, the panels installed in close proximity to them must be separated by the heat transfer screen.
Installation on plastic guides
This option is considered the best. Guides are mounted on the wall horizontally in two places. In the middle of the wall and above almost under the most ceiling. If you wish, you can strengthen the strength of the structure. To do this, it is enough to mount these guides with a smaller step.
Now consider in more detail the sequence of action during installation:
- First, the guides are mounted on the walls using self-samples or dowels on three levels. When this is done, starting from the angle you can install the PVC panels themselves.
- Along with the guides are usually sold fasteners. It is with the help of them the first panels after trimming in heights are attached in place.
- Subsequent strips before fixing on the spot, it is necessary to tightly insert into the end of the planks installed earlier. This avoids the gap between them. In addition, it will hide the presence of fasteners.
- In the same way all other panels are fixed. During this work, you need to control the evenness and level of seams. This can be done with the help level.
- In the corners of the panel are cut according to previously made measurements. End and gaps after the installation is hidden with corners or edging.
Installing panels in the bathroom to the crate
As you know, an elevated level of humidity is always in the bathroom. Therefore, wooden elements for the construction of the frame here are not suitable. It is necessary to give preference to metal-pylon or plastic design. If it is not possible to purchase moisture-resistant materials, it is allowed to use a tree pre-treated with protective compositions and painted. When erecting the frame, you need to follow some recommendations. So, the rails should be secured with a step of 500 mm. Moreover, they must be installed so that they are located strictly perpendicular to the previously mounted panels. Details of the crates are installed at the beginning or at the end of the wall, which is subjected to a plastic panel with a bathroom.
In the presence of irregularities in the installation process, it is necessary to monitor the level of the crate. If quiet is quite large, they can be compensated for by lining from wood or plastic.
When finished with the installation of the crate, you can begin to mount PVC panels. This is done in the following session:
- At first, the starting profile is fixed in the corner on the screw or stapler. It is from here to start mounting.
- A mounting shelf is installed in the lower corner of the profile towards the direction of movement. The panels themselves are attached to the screws or staple brackets.
- All subsequent panels are mounted similarly. Connecting both planks among themselves, carefully follow the sizes of the joints.
- The panels must fit tightly to each other. Gaps between them should not be. Also, they should not go to the mustache.
- Near the doorway, the bar should be attached to special corners. Formed joints can be hidden using a plinth.
- If individual panels form joints, they should be smeared with any suitable sealant. If the high quality panels, and the lattice was installed exactly, then such junctions should not appear.
As you can see, mount the panels in the bathroom - it is not very difficult, and besides quickly.
Bathroom panels: photo
