Installing the plinth is the last stroke in the floor finish. This procedure is performed only after the completion of all previous finishing works. It is the plinth that allows the premises of a complete aesthetic appearance. The necessary work on its installation can be performed independently. To do this, you need to know some rules for installing the baseline baseline.
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Varieties and characteristics of the material
First consider the existing types of this material. To date, it most often uses products made of wood, for example, plinth floor "oak", "ash" or "cherry". Cheaper options are materials made of array of spruce, topped with veneer.
- For the manufacture of outdoor wooden plinth A solid piece of wood is used. This material has a lot of advantages. One of them is a long service life. Such products can save their original appearance for a long time, and when damage appears, it is easily restored. Of the disadvantages you should call the high cost and the need to have perfectly smooth walls when installing. By the way, when installing such products, they usually do not use corners. For this reason, the adjustment of this plinth in the corners is much more complicated. The fact is, the corners in the premises are rarely strictly straight. After trimming the plinth on the stub, you have to customize it under a specific room. One way or another, the perfect dusting is unlikely to succeed. For this reason, it is best to use a shtamy mixture to one tone with wood. For the same purpose, color sealants are used.
- For the manufacture of veneered material Basics use inexpensive wood species. Next, the product is covered with chips made of more expensive wood or other material. Such plinths undoubtedly have their advantages, one of which is a relatively low cost. In addition, they can be installed on special fasteners. Of the shortcomings, it is necessary to note the need to comply with the level of humidity and temperature during the installation of products. The reason for this is that the types used by the wood are considered unstable. In addition, such plinths are not recommended to be placed indoors with warm floors.
- Pretty popular laminated plinth With the base of fibreboard. These products in their structure are similar to laminate. So, on top of the MDF, paper with a defined ornament coated with a layer of melamine is brought. It allows you to prevent the fading of the pattern and protects the material from various physical influences. The advantage of laminated plinth is its low price. In addition, it is convenient in the installation. However, such products are intended only for installation on a laminated surface. The disadvantage is low moisture resistance and mechanical damage. In addition, due to the fact that such products are coated with melamine, they have a limit at an altitude of up to 58 mm. Therefore, this plinth is not high, it is impossible to call.
- The most economical, perhaps, is plinth floor plastic. It is possible to attribute to his dignity that it suits almost for any walls. These products are often used to hide wiring. It is good and the fact that it is perfectly tolerated cleaning with detergents of various composition. Such products include, for example, polyurethane plinth flooring. Obviously, such a plinth, because of their economy, looks somewhat simple. In addition, they will need corners and plugs for their installation, which will only be allocated from the total decor. The maximum height of these products is limited to 44-46 mm. As part of a plater plastic plinth, only two parts: lower and facial. Before installing, they need to be disconnected, then all preparatory work is carried out only with the bottom component.
Purchase and selection of material
First you need to remove the measurements from all the walls where the plinth is planned. To the number that will result in the measurement, it is necessary to add 1.6-1.8 meters to ensure the stock. After that, the value obtained should be divided into the length of one pilot strip (according to the standard it is 2.5 m). As a result of such simple calculations, you will have the number of planks needed to repair.
Also, do not forget to purchase plugs and corners, as well as various connecting elements. By the way, when counting the desired amount of plugs, you should consider that they are left and right.
Installation of outdoor plinth
Before installing the plinth, you need to make sure that you need the necessary tools. In particular, it will take roulette, marker, drill. There will still be necessary saw, a short-power screwdriver, a hammer. No less important consumables - dowels and screws.
Phased procedure for performing work:
- Before starting installation work, remove the entire garbage in the room, which can cause the unevenness of the installed plinth.
- When the area is prepared, you can proceed to trimming the plinth. This operation is a challenging task that requires the accuracy of calculations. The size of the baseline of the floor must match the length of the desired section of the wall. First of all, it is recommended to cut the large parts and when they are ready, you should chop small items. When cutting any workpiece, it is necessary to leave the reserve for about 52-55 mm.
- It is important to take into account the angle between the walls (as a rule, it is 90 degrees). If the corner is straight, then cuts must be made at an angle of 45 degrees. Sometimes in an uneven room there is an angle more than 90 degrees. Then it is necessary to conditionally divide the line into two parts between the walls constituting this angle. And on this line, perform a cut. In no case can not cut the plinth without prior measurement. When cutting, the stub is most often used, which is a tool that allows you to handle parts under the desired angle.
- Plinth should be put so that the bottom side is pressed against the wall of the stouch. In this case, the part that after installing the plinth will touch the wall, must be located on the basis of this tool. After that, you should take the hacksaw and cut off the desired piece. As a guideline, there must be slots in the instrument. The following panel is cut off so that the sipped ends of the planks tightly combined with each other at the desired angle.
- In some cases, it is necessary to attach the plinth to the arched walls. For such premises, a curvilinear plinth is required, which is manufactured by cutting under the desired angle of segments of small length. It is important to comply with the correct sequence of cutting. This will create the illusion that the plinth is solid.
- When it is over with cutting, you should proceed to drowning the holes required for attaching the plinth to the wall. This work can be safely called the most responsible. After all, the holes will be made exactly in the altitude, the result of the plinth installation depends. This can be performed using a drill with a perforator and conductor function. If the walls are smooth enough, then the holes must be drilled at a distance of about 520-530 mm from each other.
- To attach the slats, it is enough to use a dowel with a length of 30 mm and a diameter of 6 mm. When the holes are made, you must remove the dirt that was formed during the work. It is easiest to do with a vacuum cleaner.
- How to install outdoor plinth? If the walls are made of a sheet of plasterboard, then there is a possibility that the line on which the planks will be mounted on the profile. Its height is usually 35-55 mm. In this case, the plinth is recommended to be secured without a dowel. It will be enough to screw the self-tapping screws into the wall. To do this, you will need to be made in the profile using the metal drill the necessary holes. It is important that their diameter is less (best for a couple of millimeters) than the dimensions of the self-assembly used.
- During the installation work, there is a possibility that the drill will assemble or go away from the place where the hole needs. To prevent it, it is recommended to use the conductor. To check the reliability of the attachment of the planks, you need to take a sequel and pierce the sheet of drywall at the level where the plinth will be installed. If, during this awl, it rested into the metal surface, then this means that the dowel to use is optional.
- Most often, the planks use the dowels called the "butterflies". To do this, do a hole in the wall from the drywall, which will allow fastening tightly into it. They are done without any particular difficulties with any drill. Speakers of the dowels need to press tightly to each other and insert into the hole. After that, you need to hit the "caps" several times using a hammer.
- Now you can start the fastening of the baseline outdoor. The photo below shows how it looks around. The diameter screws must be chosen in such a way that they are somewhat less than the dimensions of the hole. Moreover, the length of fasteners should be at least the coincidence with a length of a compressed dowel-nail.
How to mount outdoor plinth: some recommendations
Sometimes you can hear the recommendation, according to which the holes of the desired diameter first are made in the plinth and the wells in the wall are done according to them. This technique has one significant disadvantage in the fact that it does not guarantee the accuracy of the installation of the railtus rack. For this reason, cracks are possible. If it is necessary to dismantle the plinth in the process of operation, then it will be enough to make it enough. In addition, there will remain trash formed during the drilling.
Therefore, it is better to use another way of fastening. So what is he lies? Holes under the self-tapping screw is recommended to calculate with sewing. As an alternative to Sil, you can use an old screwdriver, the edge of which you want to preheat. The edges of the tool during rotation make the walls of the opening denser. To do the hole in the right place, you first need to make a bar to the wall to the place of the future installation. Then the label is applied along the channel for the cable, after which the plinth is slightly moved away from the wall so that the dowel-nail can be seen. After that, strictly along the fastener line, you need to pierce the hole of the required diameter. Next, you should screw the screws that will fix a dowel-nail. The result will be securely fixed to the wall of the plinth.
Now you need to start the installation of external corners, which are often located in places where the likelihood is that their someone hooked. That is why it is important for such work with special responsibility. These corners should be attached at a distance of 21-22 mm from the angle of the room. If the profile during the alignment of the slats for some reason is not used, it will be enough to put a mark at the point of attachment, and it is already measured by the required distance with the help line. If a wide plinth is used outdoor, the sequence of work on its installation will be almost the same.
If you put the corner profile with the holes done in advance, then when installing the slats, it will be necessary to pierce it and tin a profile, then screw the screws. To the corner kept securely, it is recommended to put the fastener with a suitable size washer. To facilitate the twisting of the self-press, it is necessary to hold it with a special tweezers with bent edges. External parts of the planks are fixed on a drywall wall in the same way.
One of the last steps will be the installation of decorative plugs of the cable channel. To do this, the plug must be bend, after which it is the ends to start the accessories. Then it straightens and refills in the channel, where the cable will be laid.
Wooden Plinth Installation Subtleties
The markup of this type of plinth is performed in almost the same way as plastic. In the future, the actions are somewhat different. Consider what exactly. According to the markup, you must screw the screws into the plinth. It is necessary to do this until they appear on the reverse side. After that, the plinth should be tightly pressing the wall so that she was noted on the screws. Then the marks should be marked with a marker or pencil. Only after that you can make holes and insert a dowel in them. Next will remain until you stop tighten the screws.
As for the screws, it is better to choose those that have a sufficiently large length and a smaller diameter of the Hats. Mounting in any case will be visible, so it is important to install them on the same distance from each other. In this form they will look more harmonious.
Alternatively, the finish nails sometimes use self-assembly. In this case, it is recommended that wooden dowels are recommended. They will be almost imperceptible in fasteners. True, these fasteners have their limitations to use. It is that in the walls of plasterboard sheets or loose concrete, such dowels will simply be able to hold normally.
