Ceiling and their types

At first glance, it would seem, today it is easy to find beautiful high-quality ceiling coverings. The choice of such products in building supermarkets is huge. However, this is the opinion of people who have not yet experienced repair.

In fact, the problem lies precisely in the large selection of the materials offered. They differ in their technical characteristics, external features, cost. In this article we will present you the most popular variants of ceiling coverings, the materials from which they are made. In addition, you will find out under what conditions they are recommended to be used. We hope that our recommendations will help you when choosing the right option.

Types of ceiling coverings

Today, several popular coatings are used, which are used in residential areas. We will present you the most common of them.

Whitewashing or painting

This finish is suitable only for completely flat surfaces. Without preliminary preparation of a ceiling you can not receive a good result.

Wallpaper gluing

This is a fairly old way of finishing, which has not lost its relevance today. It is used not only for finishing residential premises, but also for the design of offices and small commercial premises.

Suspended structures

Today, one of the most common ways to repair the ceiling in apartments. For its manufacture, a special frame is made, to which the external decoration is mounted - different materials from which it is possible to create interesting compositions suitable for different interiors.

Cassettes, plates

Ceilings that are assembled on a frame of individual elements. These can be plates, metal cassettes, gratings. This type includes the ceiling coating "Armstrong" and the ceiling grilyato. Most often this type of ceilings is used in commercial or office premises.

Tensioning cloth

These modern ceiling coverings are gaining popularity every year. This is due to the versatility of the material and its wide possibilities for design.

Panels and plates

They can be made of foam plastic or plastic. Polyurethane or plastic slabs are often used in dachas or with budgetary repair of apartments.

Types of ceiling coverings are divided into several groups:

1. Suspended.
2. Stretch.
3. Plastered.
4. Sewing.
5. Adhesive.

Most often today, a false ceiling is used . This is a construction that consists of facing elements and a frame. Typically, a wooden or metal frame that holds the plates is created in the form of a grate that is supported by suspensions attached to the wall or the main ceiling. Facing materials are installed after the frame is fully reinforced on the suspensions. They must meet the basic requirements: to have the same shape and dimensions of the panel. Professional installers call these elements modules or registries.

The creation of such a ceiling is justified, when it is required to make the main ceiling "invisible", but to keep at the same time access to engineering systems and communications - computer and television wiring, ventilation and heating equipment, and electricians. These structures contain fire systems, ventilation grilles, lighting devices and at the same time the acoustics are noticeably improved. According to the type of lining material used, such ceilings can be latticed, modular, solid or rack-mounted.

Advantages of suspended structures:

Durability

Ceilings of this type of companies engaged in installation, provides a fairly long warranty. By giving a warranty card for ten years, they are usually reinsured: in fact the design serves much longer without changing the technical characteristics and external features.

Aesthetics

Suspended ceiling coverings perfectly hide the shortcomings of the main surface. For their installation, there is no need to perfectly level the surface, whiten or paint it.

Provision of heat and sound insulation

Such ceiling coverings for rooms provide high resistance to sudden temperature changes, which is especially important in apartments located in a multi-storey building. Excellent sound insulation ensures that noisy neighbors will not bother you.

Even the best ceiling coverings have drawbacks. In suspended structures they include:

• Reducing the distance between the floor and the ceiling. This design reduces the height of the room by 5-15 cm. With a ceiling height of less than three meters, this can be considered a significant drawback.
• Quite high cost. Whitewashing or painting, undoubtedly, will not require large financial investments, but when the ceiling is uneven, all in cracks, then additional expenditure will be required for its alignment. In addition, in this case it is necessary to take into account additional inconveniences: dirt, dust, construction debris.
• Without the help of professionals, it is difficult to quickly and correctly make such a ceiling. Special knowledge, skills and equipment are needed.

For any ceiling structure, various coatings can be used, from which the decorative canvas is assembled. Therefore, choosing a suitable design, you should choose the material from which the ceiling will be made.

Materials for ceiling coverings

Modern ceiling coverings can have different design and have different properties, which allows them to be used in different rooms. The characteristics depend on the properties of the selected material. Let's look at what kind of ceiling coverings and their types are, what properties they have.

Plaster

This type of decoration has long been well known. It is rather complicated and laborious in execution. A lot of time (even for professionals) takes the surface leveling, its putty and painting. In addition, to achieve a good result, you need to mount a special plaster mesh.

However, with the observance of technology, it is possible to obtain a ceiling of the highest quality, which will be distinguished by an ideal smoothness. And one more important point: for too low rooms (for example, in Khrushchev), this option is sometimes the only one, since it does not reduce the height of the room.

This coating has a significant drawback - difficulty in cleaning, it can not be washed. If such a finish is made in a new building, very soon the surface may become covered with cracks that form during shrinkage of the building.

Wallpaper

To reduce labor costs putty and coloring can be replaced by pasting wallpaper. This will significantly reduce the cost of the ceiling. In principle, any wallpaper can be applied to the surface of the ceiling, but to get a high-quality coating, it is better to use special canvases designed specifically for this surface.

Glutinous ceiling coatings are often used not only in residential buildings, but also in offices and trade enterprises. The basis for the production of such a material is glass fiber. Experts recommend using the following types of wallpaper for the ceiling:

• Vinyl;
• Non-woven fleece;
• liquid wallpaper;
• Glass wallpapers.

Before the beginning of pasting, a ceiling preparation is required. You can not correct minor defects, but large cracks should be fixed. At cost, these are very affordable ceilings. Ceiling cover from wallpaper can be used as a budget option for upgrading the surface. The shortcomings include the impossibility of wet cleaning.

Expanded polystyrene tiles

The installation of this material is carried out on the slabs with adhesive. It should be noted that when using conventional plates, the surface does not look very attractive (although this is a matter of taste). Much nicer is the seamless linens that are assembled from such slabs. A special shape of the edge and a special pattern make it possible to create the appearance of a solid surface.

Today, special models of this material have appeared, from which it is possible to create imitations of other ceiling structures. The advantages of this coating include low cost and the possibility not to process the base surface. The disadvantage of this coating is the outdated appearance.

Rack and plastic panels

Such coatings are similar in installation and technical characteristics. Differences exist in their appearance, as well as in the price range. According to their type they belong to suspended ceilings. It's quite easy to make such a ceiling with your own hands. It does not require preliminary surface preparation.

These coatings are interesting and, from the design point of view. Communication and ventilation can be carried out inside such a structure, and in the ceiling itself, for example, to make spotlights.

The disadvantage of this design is a reduction in the ceiling height by about seven centimeters. However, it is very easy to install and a beautiful view of the decor. Panels are produced with a different pattern, but the most common imitations of the surface of wood with a characteristic pattern. The panels are mounted on a frame base or on a glue, directly on the floor.

In the first case, you can get a kind of false ceiling. The second option is much simpler and can be used even in not too high rooms. Since today natural materials are valued, panels that are covered with real wood veneer can become an excellent choice.

It is interesting to look plastic and metal ceiling coverings. In the bathroom or kitchen, they will be indispensable, because water resistance and simple maintenance in these rooms are important.

Tensioning cloth

In recent years, stretch ceilings are increasingly installed in residential buildings. Today we can say with confidence that this is the best ceiling covering. It refers to the types of false ceiling. Today, the stretch fabric differs in the variety of textures and rich color palette. To produce them, a wide variety of films are used, as well as textiles, which do not require the use of a thermal gun during installation.

Stretch fabrics, regardless of the material used, have excellent performance and can be applied in any room. If you want, you can apply a pattern to the tensioning sheet. This allows you to create unique ceiling structures.

Despite the fact that today these ceiling coverings are very popular, we can not help saying about the shortcomings of this design:

• Decrease in height, which is typical for all suspended structures;
• The difficulty of transferring fixtures without the help of a specialist;
• Impossibility of elimination of damages of a cloth;
• High cost (here it should be noted that today the cost of such coverage has decreased, and it can already compete with gypsum plasterboard).

Drywall

And this is the most universal ceiling coverings. They have perfectly proven themselves as a reliable and high-quality material. Mounted GKL on the skeleton base, and the final appearance of the design depends only on the imagination of the designer or your own.

Drywall allows you to create a composition of almost any shape. There is an opinion that this is expensive material, but this is not true. In the beginning, when it first appeared on our market, its value was somewhat exaggerated, but today it is not the most expensive way of finishing.

It should be noted that today there are new samples of this material, which are characterized by increased moisture resistance, which makes it possible to use it even in the bathroom.

Mirror Panels

In addition, the mirror ceiling coatings are very beautiful, they will help you create a unique interior in any room: "lift" the ceiling, visually expand the room, make it lighter and more spacious.

In the installation, the mirror ceiling resembles a cassette ceiling , but there is also a difference: in it, the plasterboard modules are replaced by mirror plates, which are covered with anti-fragmentation film for strength and protection on the back side. The size of the plates is 600x600 mm. This design holds profiles that can be of a variety of colors, as well as mirror, like the plates themselves. This ceiling has a high level of moisture resistance, so it can be successfully used in the bathroom (of course, if height allows).

As you can see, the choice of ceiling coatings is great today. Nevertheless, if you take into account all the advantages and disadvantages of existing structures and materials, you will certainly be able to make the right choice for your premises.