How to repair the ceiling

Pre-training to repair the ceiling Zatevaya repair, you must know, even approximately, when you're going to do next. If you suspect a long time to raise his eyes upwards - one option. If a year or two you wish to change the "sky" over your head - just another song. Preliminary preparation of the ceiling to repair Zatevaya repair, you must know, even approximately, when you're going to do next. If you suspect a long time to raise his eyes upwards - one option. If a year or two you wish to change the "sky" over your head - just another song. If your ceiling is covered with oil paint, anything else you it will not be able to paint more. Because oil is put on a coat with linseed oil, which penetrates the concrete, and no other stuff on it already will not hold. In this case, the choice is limited: once or oil paint, which is two to three years of yellowing even with all sanitary standards (meaning that you will not be in this room is constantly smoking and cook, without moving away from the stove day and night) or an expensive suspended ceiling. There are occasions when glued to the ceiling ceiling wallpaper. They are glued directly to concrete slabs, which means you have to do a full preparation for the new coverage. Again glued to the ceiling of the paper is not recommended - in the model homes builders are doing it solely for reasons of speed and cheapness - they did not have no coat or putty ceiling. "Paper beauty" saves most divine form of three years. There are other "subtle" moments - not in every house you can get the ideal type of ceiling. The fact that the work of our builders is poor. It is understood that the ceiling towards the walls should be at an angle of 90 °. In Panel slab erected "walk", therefore, to align perfectly ceiling is not so simple. In older homes it is not necessary to apply certain kinds of fillers. Excluded, for example, expensive imported fillers firm Pufas "- they increase the weight of the ceiling, and the old plaster can not survive. Ideally, the ceiling is updated simultaneously with the walls, but we advise all the dirty work to the ceiling before you decide to repair the floor (to lay the parquet, linoleum, carpet or tile). But if you do decide to pay attention only to the ceiling, take care of keeping the floor, walls and furniture. Suit old newspapers or plastic film. Those who do not wish wallpaper, use the buttons or regular scotch. More "advanced" know that there is a special masking tape. This paper tape, which caused a layer of special glue. Tape leaves no trace of any on the wallpaper or the paint or the glass. Fasten tape masking tape on the floor, walls and furniture. All that will pour in from above in the process of creating a ceiling - let them trap. Upon completion of the work tape is easily removed. To remove the old coating, you can use old-fashioned way: wash off with water whitewash and vodoemulsionku impregnated with a solution of iodine (iodine in the proportion of the bubble for a bucket of water) and clean off drill. However, all this long, troublesome and messy. Now on sale have a special wash, with which you can easily remove any old paint. Increased demand wash the German firm Pufas. Washes are applied to the ceiling of a roller or wide brush, and after 20-30 minutes can be easily removed together with the old paint. Removing the ceiling fungus In the process, many are faced with the fact that it is necessary not only to remove old paint, but also such a nasty thing like fungus - stains and mildew build-up of brown-green color, often occurring in areas with high humidity. If the fungus is "settled" on your ceiling, you should not ignore it. Cosmetic repairs will not save the situation. As a result - wasted money and wasted power. It is better to immediately declare war on this organic infection. To fight it is best to use special funds from the mold. On sale is the German firm's funds from the mold Pufas "in bottles of 500, and Finnish - company Tikkurila" called "Homeenpoyste. They are cheaper than German four times - 3 for $ 1 liter. A selection of our means of struggle are much poorer: affects national habit to copper sulfate. It also displays the fungus. But get this tool can only construction firms or in specialized stores. Use funds from the mold is simple: pshiknuli fungal muck from the balloon, we waited 30 minutes, watching as it all sizzles and bubbles - and no fungus. Died. Only unpleasant acrid smell of chlorine, crawling around the room during the process. Until the invasion of the fungus has not taken the size of the disaster, and is in the initial stage, the funds from the mold is really great help. Good idea to protect yourself from the appearance of fungus in the future in advance. To do this, take preventive action. There are special anti-fungal additives to the paint (again Pufas "and" Tikkurila). Fungal foci of large sizes can be cleaned as: concrete hollowed or propane is burned, or plasma welding. Then again be filled with vitriol and primed. Clearly, in this case, refer to specialists. The conventional wisdom that the struggle with the fungus is useless is wrong. Thus, the ceiling had cleared. But before you start work, you need to find out how much you have it horizontal. The easiest way - with the help of a plumb-line to measure the distance from floor to ceiling in the corners of the room. If you find that the slope still is, will remember this during priming and plastering work to "restore" the ceiling in a horizontal position. Prepare the ceiling for painting, wallpapering, whitewash. First things first close up all the seams in the ceilings. Some say that it is necessary, especially if the house is old and built to the standard design. At the junction of ceiling and wall panels occur "progress": the house he has lived, is blowing air, peeled wallpaper, crumbling plaster and putty. Others believe that the stitches should be left open, precisely because of this very "game" boards. Proponents of the first opinion should be reserved for the cement mortar grouting (in other words, cement and sand). He has already sold as a mixture. It remains only to add water. Just enough to get consistency test. Seams are sealed with a spatula or a gun. " Adherents of other terms used serpyanku, which means only building bandage. Serpyanka strips glued directly to Rustam (open seams) using PVA glue, diluted with water. The joints must dry for about two hours. The next two stages - a primer and putty - designed to prepare the ceiling to the finishing, which can paint the ceiling (but not oil-based paints) or sticky wallpaper. The primer should permeate the concrete, so that later the ceiling fell nothing, and smooth the surface. Primers are different penetration depth - the deeper, the better and last longer. The ceiling is primed with a roller. With regard to materials, there are plenty to choose from. From imported products, experts recommend a German company Pufas ":" Tiffing-primer LF "and" Universal Tiffing-soil LH ", common in the market. The first primer is applied in cases where the ceiling - the average roughness, the roughness on it a bit. The second is absorbed deeper, it can prime the ceiling of the old, poorly cleaned surface. Stand both about equally. You can use and domestic primers - they are every two or three cheaper but less durable. There is a very simple way - 10 liters of water per 1 liter of PVA glue. It is true, keep in mind - long such a ceiling would not live. Priming should be done conscientiously. Because of its function - the so-impregnated concrete to base the ceiling turned into a monolith. Our repairmen who work on old-fashioned way, can not get used to import the primer having the form of water with the smell of paint, and the habit still use varnish. And although it ideally can be put only oil paint, mountain-repairers can paint proolifenny ceiling and water based paints. As a result, the ceiling becomes a decent form after a few months. Putty - the most exciting activity, but the terrible responsibility, and in some cases quite expensive. On the quality of fillings depends on whether the ceiling is perfectly flat. Filler material itself - it is a white powder that is diluted with water to produce soft, dense mass. Putty is of three kinds: for internal and external wet areas. Bestsellers - German Pufas "and Finnish" Vetonit. Best Russian putty - by "Glyn". Quite tolerable - Polish company "Atlas". The Russian and Polish putty consumption more than the German and Finnish, but in the end will still get two to three times cheaper. On the other hand, using the German or Finnish filler, you're doing a ceiling "on the Century." "Pufasnye" ceiling today is really the best quality - their lifetime is 30 (!) Years. You can use the mixed filler, for example, "Vetonit + Pufas. But! Must be clearly understood psevdomatematicheskoe rule: from interchanging the terms sum, oh, how changed! There is such a nasty thing as rejection of materials. If you first put "Vetonit" and then "Pufas, expect a collapse. And if you do the opposite - keeps "stranglehold". Using the services of the repairmen do not hesitate to ask a sequence of different layers - the combustion of the firm and not get up. To protect yourself from the appearance of cracks in the ceiling, directly on the wet plaster can stick an ordinary gauze or a broad serpyanku, which act as a reinforcing grid. The final touch for a perfectly flat surface - the finish plaster that covers the very small flaws. Finishing plaster - fine-grained, that is quite rovnenkaya and Gorny. Our ("clay") or Polish (Atlas) in the stores to ask specifically as "finishing." A Pufas "his whole filler produces a fine-grained version, so the main of which mentioned above, can be used as the finish. A few hours later when the plaster dries, the ceiling hides. The most that neither is commonplace sandpaper. (Frankly, the lesson is very boring, and most importantly - an endless running around like "Tears from ladders, slid, climbed again - skins; back tears, moved ..." tires to burn. But nothing can be done - right.) Monolithic foundation, look forward to painting is ready. But before you go directly to the "artistic" side, is worth quoting a description of another way to prepare for painting the ceiling. It is good that requires a minimum of effort and five times less expensive than "vetonito-pufasny. Perhaps this is the easiest and cheapest option quality ceiling (Painted or ceiling wallpaper does not count). Drywall - a ready-made ceiling panels, usually the size 1,2 x3 meters are sold together with instructions for use, which in principle is able to understand anyone, even the most distant from the repair man. Directly on the floor mounted metal frame, and to it with screws screwed plasterboard. Then it all shpaklyuem and color. The only disadvantage of this method - the loss of up to 5 cm height of the ceiling. But the advantages are undeniable: a fast - again, cheap - two, ideal for curves, humpback ceilings - three. Hide any irregularities, as each individual plate and the ceiling as a whole. Ideal option for the above cases, when the ceiling has a slope - the savings on plastered walls and dirt get huge. Slab of drywall can be painted any color, it falls flat, the surface looks smooth. It seems to be. The only disappointment - gypsum board afraid of water, and if you fill the top neighbors - bad thing. Finishing the ceiling: whitewashing, painting, stucco work. Thus, the ceiling is ready to work. On the oil paint has been said, and communicate with it does not recommend. Better use of alkyd enamel. The best option - latex or water-dispersion paints. Better - matt. 'll Look up, as in the misty distance, - visually expanding volume. Do you want to - make the ceiling color. Paint colors are a great many. Vodnodispersionki dignity - its longevity. "Allow" to wash himself to two thousand times! In addition, this paint - the joy of a smoker. Even if you pitch like a chimney, the ceiling will remain pristine for very long. 20-pound bucket enough for 80-100 m2. Imported paint is enough to put in two layers, our best three. To do this, it is best to use a roller or spray. Latex or water-dispersion paints. The difference between these colors from one another only in that the former can be washed off, albeit with difficulty. The second - completely waterproof. The best - the German "Feydal" and "Pufas, Finnish Tikkurila. The spectrum of colors vodoemulsionki quite broad. Water-dispersion paints mostly just white. If you want to paint the ceiling in some exotic color, you can not do without Kolerov - color additives. Mixing them with the main color in certain proportions, you can get any shade. The proportions are always specified on the container. Oil paint - the Russian or Belarusian production. You can find and Polish. But foreigners "oil" just do not like, and almost no supply. As already mentioned, it does not breathe the ceiling and quickly turns yellow. Alkyd enamel - German Pufas "or Finnish" Vetonit. We import a wide range of enamel colors, our national - a little less. But Turkey - almost always just white. In the West, the enamel is used very widely: they are richly painted and accommodations, and automobiles. We refer to them carefully, on a very banal reason: it is twice as expensive than water-based paints. But then white enamel color - whiter than the color of white paint. " Yes, and the enamel dries quickly, and humidity it is not terrible. You can, of course, dissolve the chalk water, add blue to shade and get a whitewash. But trite whitewashed ceiling chalk - a dubious pleasure, and for a long time to clean house he adds. Better still to paint. Or really hang ceiling wallpaper. Decorations for the ceiling aesthetes or owners of "skewed" flats recommend a ceiling or baseboard molding. The two most common options - foam and polyurethane moldings. Foam is an average of $ 1 per meter. Foam - five times more expensive, but it looks like "under the stucco, and it can be painted. Skirting visually aligns imbalances ceiling, and looks pretty. If funds permit, and the style of your home corresponds to decorate the ceiling moldings from plaster. Prices depend on the imagination and the thickness of the wallet. For example, only stucco cost governor of Kursk region Rutskoi in $ 62,000. But remember, moldings and baseboards visually "lowered the ceiling. If he is already low, and the plinth you really do need, do not buy wide. In general, bring to mind the ceiling and not for too much money is not so difficult. It would be the desire. The choice of technology and appearance - for you. Today, besides the classic ceilings, there are still suspended, rack, stretch, and even wooden mosaic (listed on the principle "from the cheap to more expensive), but it's a different story.