Wall decoration with plastic panels. Technology of wall finishing with plastic panels

Plastic panels for budget repairs - the option is just perfect. They look beautiful, and in the editing are not too complicated. It is impossible to work alone with the room by themselves. Of course, the decoration of walls with plastic panels must be carried out in compliance with all the required technologies.

How to choose plastic panels

You can buy this material at any construction store. When choosing in the first place, you should pay attention to the manufacturer. Do not buy the cheapest option, especially Chinese production. Most of these panels are made from low-quality raw materials with the use of bad glue and varnish. In the future, they will probably begin to release harmful substances. In addition, cheap material fades very quickly.

A much more successful solution will be to decorate the kitchen, hallway, bathroom or walls in the toilet with plastic panels of domestic or European production. Among other things, when buying, pay attention to:

• The thickness of the front of the panel. The higher this parameter, the better.
• Appearance. The color of the panel should be uniform.
• Number of stiffeners. The more of them, the stronger the material.

When buying, be sure to try to insert the shelf of one panel into the groove of the other. Mounting should be as rigid as possible. Also, several panels need to be viewed, unfolding at an angle. On the front surface, there should be no visible protuberances from the stiffeners.

Calculation of material

The width of the standard plastic panel is 25-27 cm, height - 2,6-2,7 m. In order to find out exactly how many elements are needed, it is necessary to measure and add the length of all the walls. The result is divided by 25 (27). To buy the panel is a small margin.

Mounting Features

The walls can be decorated with plastic panels in two ways: with or without a frame. In the first case, a wooden bar is pre-packed on the surface to be trimmed or a metal or PVC profile is fixed. In the second - panels are glued directly to the wall with the help of liquid nails. This method is less expensive.

The frame must be used when the walls in the room are not too smooth. In this case, under it in the right places are put thin plates or pieces of plywood. This allows you to correct the blockage of the wall. Mounting by gluing is performed only on pre-leveled surfaces.

Building a wooden frame

Most often, when performing an operation such as decorating walls with plastic panels, a crate is used from a wooden beam. It is a cheap and very easy to install material. Mount it on the walls can, for example, using self-tapping screws with plastic dowels. A bar is fixed on the surfaces perpendicular to the intended arrangement of the panels. To mount the wooden frame you will need a screwdriver, a construction level, a plumb, a tape measure and a hacksaw. The bar itself must first be carefully lubricated with an antiseptic. It is also advisable to treat it with flame retardant.

First install the bays in the corners, as well as on the top and bottom of the walls. When installing the frame, care must be taken to ensure that its elements are horizontal (or vertical). In order for the lath to be perfectly flat, it is worth using the building level and the plumb line. First holes drilled in the bar itself. Further it is applied to the wall and makes markings. Drilled in her holes and inserting plastic dowels into them, the beam is fixed with screws.

The step between the intermediate elements of the battens on the wall should be approximately 40-50 cm. Before assembling the frame, it is necessary to determine where the cabinets, paintings, mirrors, etc. will subsequently hang, and install additional bars in these places.

Features of fixing the profile

Planks PVC fixed to the wall in the same way as the bar. That is, first holes are made in them, and then fastening is made. The metal profile is almost not used because of the high cost for plastic panels. Install it usually only in damp rooms, if the walls in them are very heavily littered. Drilling holes in the profile is not necessary. They are available in the slats initially.

How to mount panels

Well, now let's see how the walls themselves are made with plastic panels. Begin this operation with the installation of auxiliary elements. The first is a corner (external or internal) and the final bar. Attach them to the profile with screws. If you plan to install panels up to the ceiling, then install the bar skirting.

The very technology of wall decoration with plastic panels is extremely simple. Each PVC element has two shelves: short and wide. The first is needed to connect the panels together. The second is for fixing them to the crate. Begin installing the elements from the corner. The first panel is wound in the corner section by a short shelf, leveled and fastened by a wide shelf to each battenset with self-tapping screws. You can use brackets for this purpose. All subsequent panels are fastened in the same way. The last element is usually cut in such a way that its edge does not reach the center of the final element by 5-6 mm. First, the last panel builds into it. Then it needs to be slightly bent and inserted into the groove of the previous element. Lock the hard panel can be inserted into place using a thin screwdriver. The last element of the skin does not require additional fastening.

In the locations of the outlets in the panels, holes are carefully punched before installation. To cover the wall above the doors and windows, short pieces of PVC elements will be needed. Sawing plastic is the easiest way to use an ordinary wood hacksaw.

Aligning walls with plaster

Fastening of plastic panels to the wall with glue can be made only after preliminary equalization. For this, the surface must be plastered by the beacon method. A small amount of alabaster or cement means is diluted with water and is superimposed on walls by narrow strips strictly vertically. Further, the beacon profile is pressed into the plaster. After that you need to wait a day until the solution seizes. Then you can start leveling the walls.

Plastering is carried out as follows:

• A mortar is poured onto the wall with a spatula.
• The rule carries out its leveling.
• After drying the layer for several hours, it is additionally passed by a paint sprayer. This allows to increase the adhesive properties of the surface.

After leveling, the beacon profile is removed and the remaining grooves are closed with a solution. After a couple of weeks, you can start sticking plastic panels. Fix them usually on liquid nails. You can also use a special adhesive for PVC.

Installation of panels for liquid nails

Fastening of plastic panels on the wall is as follows:

• The glue is applied to each of the four corners of the panel and along its entire length is zigzagged.
• The element is pressed tightly against the wall surface and held for a few seconds.
• Similarly, the next panel is smeared and, inserting it with a short shelf into the groove of the previous one, press firmly against the wall.
• The last element is cut lengthwise and snapped into the finishing bar.

Sometimes plastic panels can be glued to the wall is difficult. Very badly they stick, for example, on lime-finished or water-dispersive paint surfaces. In this case, self-tapping is allowed. Under them in the wall holes are pre-drilled, into which dowels are inserted. By circumstances, these two methods can be combined. That is, on very flat surfaces, the panel is glued, in the same place where there are small hillocks or pits or wall material has not too good adhesion properties, use self-tapping screws.

Plastic lining is mounted in exactly the same way. If the walls are uneven, it is usually installed on a PVC profile, and on flat surfaces glued using liquid nails.

Features of installation in the bathroom

A bathroom is a premise with high humidity. And therefore, it is highly discouraged to use the beams for assembling the frame. The tree is distinguished by the ability to absorb excess moisture from the air. Therefore, the crate from it can begin to swell and deform. As a result, your new plastic paneling will simply lead. Between the elements will appear extremely unaesthetic cracks.

Most often, the walls of the bathroom with plastic panels are made using the profile of PVC. For heavily buried walls, it is better to take aluminum slats.

Aligning the walls in the event that the panels are to be glued, is made using a moisture resistant plaster. Such mixtures are usually made on the basis of cement. Alabaster high humidity is not tolerated very well.

Kitchen: Wall decoration with plastic panels

The humidity in this room is also slightly elevated. But not so much as in the bathroom. Therefore, it is possible to mount a lath from a bar here.

Plastic is a combustible material. Therefore, it is not necessary to glue them with a gap in the wall between the lower and upper cabinets of the kitchen set. A tile is usually mounted here. In particular, an unfortunate solution will be the use of such material as plastic panels, for finishing the walls in the immediate vicinity of the plate.

Installation of PVC panels in other premises

Living rooms, nurseries, classrooms and bedrooms are rarely trimmed with this material. Usually, it is chosen only for plating the walls of living rooms of small brick or concrete out-of-town cottages. In this case, the main attention should also be paid to the choice of material for the crate. If the cottage is not heated, the cant be used is not recommended. The panels themselves are not afraid of temperature drops or increased humidity and will last for a long time in such a house. The cobbled frame will crack and crumble much earlier. For a summer residence also ideal variant can become PVC or an aluminum profile.

Very often using this material, the toilet walls are also finished. Plastic panels can be used to cover the restroom in a city apartment or in a private house. Installation in this case is allowed to be carried out on any kind of crate.

As you can see, the installation of plastic panels - the procedure is quite simple. All you need for high-quality plating is the ability to hold a screwdriver in your hands.