Today everyone knows what a stretch ceiling is. How to do it, in principle, is clear to everyone. But how to mount it with your own hands, and is it worth it to do it yourself? Our answer is not worth it. Everyone must do their job. And let the specialist pull the ceiling. But if you can’t wait to do everything yourself, we will give some tips.
What do you need for work?
You will need the material itself, which can be either film or fabric. Of the tools - a spatula, straight and semicircular. You also need a baguette for finishing butt joints, self-tapping screws, a screwdriver. The main tool that you need can be called a building hair dryer. True, professionals use a construction gun, which greatly speeds up the work, because it heats a large surface.
Getting to work
First you need to conduct wiring and connect all lighting devices, taking into account the fact that for a stretch ceiling, the maximum power is 50 watts. Now let's talk about how stretch ceilings are made. Photos of the process are available in specialized magazines or on the website of any construction company. So, screw the ceiling profile to the walls. In doing so, consider the lowest point of the ceiling. It is from her that you will need to build on work. First, the profile will need to be glued, and after you have verified that it is perfectly even, it can be fixed with screws. After that, warm the room to 40 degrees. This temperature must be maintained throughout the installation process.
Ceiling material heat up to 60 degrees. This will facilitate the tensioning process and prevent the web from breaking. You need to fix the ceiling from one of the corners of the room. Then it is tucked in the opposite corner, and so on. The last corner will be the most difficult, because the weight of the canvas will be in the center. After all the corners are fixed, you can go to the canvas itself. It must be tucked around the perimeter with a spatula, uniformly pulling the film.
Completion of work
Well, the stretch ceiling (how to do it, we just found out) is fully fixed. But there are some defects: excess material, wrinkles and wrinkles on the surface, not very beautiful seams. We fix all the flaws. We cut off the material that turned out to be superfluous. Folds and wrinkles are heated with a construction hairdryer and smoothed. We fix the place of fastening with the wall with a baguette, which can be either simple, classic, or matched to the general style of the room. Well, you and I figured out what a stretch ceiling is, how to do it yourself, and realized that it wasn’t so easy.
As for how to make stretch two-level ceilings, it should be borne in mind: it is much easier to pull a simple even ceiling than to do it in several levels. There are a lot of options, and all of them are quite complicated in execution. Therefore, if you can do it yourself on a simple even stretch ceiling, then it is better not to risk it and call the master.
To summarize
We talked about the stretch ceiling - how to do it yourself. But it’s better not to experiment. According to our own experience, no one can do this better than a true master. So, when buying a ceiling, order and its installation. The cost of work will be much cheaper than the effort, time and nerves spent on self-installation.