Repair in the bathroom is almost completed, it remains to install the bath close to the wall and expand the necessary accessories. But only do it will not work perfectly, since there is a small space on the site of the edge of the edge of the bath with a wall. Earlier, in Soviet times, such gaps were embarked in cement mortar, and the paint was painted on top. Now you can do everything much easier and aesthetically. To fill the gap between the bathroom and the wall, install the plastic border for the bath.
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If you leave everything unchanged, that is, install the bath and do not close the space between the wall and the board, then even a small gap can bring a lot of problems. Starting that the appearance of the bathroom will be spoiled, and we tried to make beautiful repairs in this room, so that everything was clean everywhere and gently. If at least a couple of times to take a shower in such a bath, then water will be sewn through the cracks on the floor, and this is an additional humidity in the room and the direct path to the spread of fungus and mold. If the level of humidity is high, then the room will be drying for a very long time, and if the dampness is constantly present, then the fungus and mold will appear on the walls and corners of the bathroom. Get rid of such manifestations is very difficult. To prevent moisture from entering the floor and walls under the bathroom, you need to install a special border for the bath. Thus you can get rid of dampness, and you don't have to fight with fungus. The border or plinth is specifically designed to fill the small gaps between the bathroom and the wall. Laying the border in the bathroom will not take much time if everything is done according to the rules.
There are several types of baseling for the bath. The choice of border will depend on the finishing material of the walls in the bathroom. For example, if you laid ceramic tiles, then the border is preferably installed also ceramic. For those who love to constantly change the interior in their home, there are also many finishing materials for the bathroom. If you have chosen glass walls, washable wallpapers, or wallpapers with plastic PVC panels, well combined with these pvc borrows for the bath.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of plastic panels
Most buyers managed to assess the positive aspects of such a finishing material like plastic. It is suitable for each room, as well as widely used to work in the bathroom. Such a plinth is inexpensive, and the compact size of the border for the bath allows you to establish this finishing material yourself without attracting specialists.
In construction supermarkets, you can buy a plastic border of any size and color, which means that the interior of the bathroom will be observed.
It is very convenient that it does not need to prepare a cement solution to install a curb, it is enough to purchase special glue, which is often called "liquid nails".
You can also find self-adhesive plastic borders for the bathroom in the form of ribbons, which greatly facilitate the installation process. You will only stay to prepare the surface so that it is absolutely dry and clean, then remove the protective coating on the reverse side of the finishing material and glue the border to the bath. A feature of the installation of this type of plastic is the following: if you glue the wallpaper or sneaking with a wall with a wall, then you first need to fill the large slots with a sealant or cement mortar, and then stick the self-adhesive plastic panels.
Despite the ease of installation, an acceptable price and a large selection of shades and sizes of plastic plinth, this finishing material has disadvantages. The most important is short-life. After the year of operation will have to reinstate the installation of the bathroom. And if there is a high humidity in your bathroom, the room is often used, you will have to replace the curb before. In addition, during the operation of the bathroom, you need to constantly ensure that the water does not seek on the floor through the border. This is especially important if you installed the screen on the bath and control the level of humidity under the bathroom every day there is no possibility.
What are the borders for the bath, you can look at the photo:
How to make a border in the bathroom
The easiest and easiest way to fill the small slots between the bathroom and the wall is to glue a border tape.
Features of working with self-adhesive border:
- 90% of the work of success is to prepare the surface of the wall and bath. We need to try to treat well the places where the border will be laid, clean the wall and side of the bath from fat, pollution and moisture. For this, simple materials are best suited for this: any cleaning agent, you can even take a food soda, can also be used to degrease the surface of gasoline or alcohol.
- If you removed the old ribbon and want to stick a new one, then the remnants of the adhesive must be removed. Your actions are as follows: First you remove the old tape, wipe the place with any detergent, you can even lose the side of the bath and the wall with a rigid brush, and then degrease the surface. To quickly dry the shocking zone, use the usual hairdryer, and then wipe the surface with a dry clean cloth.
- Now we cut off with scissors the desired length of the tape, plus 2 cm.
- If you are bolding complex areas, then in the field of fitting to the bath you can make small cuts on the ribbon so that it goes out evenly.
- Start the surface from the corner, and the protective film is better to remove gradually, as the tape is glued.
- Cress the ribbon as close as possible. They glued a small portion equal to 10-15 cm, and now press the palm of the tape and hold 15 seconds.
- When the tape is pasted completely, it is possible to use the bathroom only after a day when the glue grabs well.
How to install a border on the bath
Before starting work on the installation of a border on the bath, you need to prepare materials and tools so that everything is at hand.
What we need to work:
- plastic border;
- silicone glue;
- aquarium sealant (liquid silicone);
- pistol for sealant;
- household or construction hairdryer;
- scotch larger;
- narrow spatula;
- ruler and pencil;
- stuslo;
- construction knife;
- paper towels, clean rag.
If you will first work with a plastic border, then do not be lazy to buy a stub. You can buy the cheapest plastic model, which is enough to trim the corners of the plastic plinth. Do not neglect by this advice, since manually rolling the corners will be very difficult. To mount a plastic border on the bathroom you will need 1 cylinder silicone sealant.
Preparatory moments. It is important to clean the surface from pollution. If before that you used the bathroom with plastic plinth and it was already spoiled, it must be removed, the glue is considered and pregnant to disinfect the surface with chlorine solution. After disinfection, you need to wash the placement places and dry the hairdryer. Now that preparatory work is completed, you can start laying a plastic plinth.
Installation of plinth:
- Once again, we go along the edge of the bath and the wall with paper towels, and then a dry cloth. Carefully wipe the places where the plinth will be adjusted. Your task is to achieve perfectly dry surface.
- The slot needs to be filled with a sealant, for this, a spray can with a sealant (it is better to take aquarium, it will last longer) insert into the gun. Check it in action.
- Next, when the slot is filled with a sealant, you need to wait 5-10 minutes when it snacks. Just at this time, it is possible to do fittings.
- Squeeze the desired length of the plinth, more superfluous. Border is better to cut at an angle of 45 oC. To do this, use the stupid.
- Before gluing the plinth, to the edge of the bath, stick the greasy tape (2 mm below and above the place where the plinth will be pasted), it will protect the enamel from damage. On the curb can also be labeled tape.
- Attach the plinth into the space between the bathroom and the wall, press it. Now remove the edge of the plinth and insert the pistol tip in the resulting space. Fill the seam.
- So that the sealant is evenly distributed over the entire surface, use the spatula.
- And now pretty press the border to the edge of the bath and wait a few seconds. If you have an assistant, this part of the work is better to fulfill together, since the force of pressed affects the quality of the border gluing.
- After a few minutes you can remove the greasy tape.
- The protruding transparent glue must be immediately wiped out the dry cloth, and the borders should be easily insulated with a sealant.
- You can enjoy the bathroom only in a day, so do not rush to turn on the water. It is undesirable that water got into the place of gluing plastic plinth. By the way, the door to the bathroom is better to keep open, and if you have a built-in fan, turn it on, and it should not be raw in the room.
Such a plastic curb will serve only the year of operation, then it will have to be replaced with a new one.
Subtleties of work that you need to know
It does not always work beautifully plastic border.
So that you have successfully coped with the task, learn these recommendations:
- not always a plastic border is installed on a new bath. Most often it has to mount on the old bath. The remaining of soap and other pollution must first be washed with any detergent;
- when the whole mud is washed, the surface must be carefully dried. To do this, use disposable paper towels. Wipe the bath until the towel is completely dry;
- do not save on paper towels, a rag to achieve an ideally dry surface is impossible;
- you can consolidate the work using a hair dryer - direct a stream of warm air into a small area, hold the hair dryer for 30 seconds, now you can move smoothly further;
- do not forget to degrease the place of gluing a border. To do this, use gasoline or White spirit, you can wipe the surface with alcohol. It is important to choose such a degreaser so that it does not damage the plastic panels. It is forbidden to use aggressive solvents, they can spoil the coating on the walls and a bath from acrylic;
- apply glue to the entire surface so that the border makes the board well and the wall. Try to make a solid seam, catching a thin layer of glue. Curly glue when mounting a border from plastic is not applied;
- if the wall is not perfectly smooth, and you see that in some places the border does not fit, then such places can additionally fill with a sealant to prevent the flow.
How it is properly stacked by a border for the bath, you can see this video tutorial:
