Ceiling tiles made of foam. How to glue fontoam tile, subtleties and nuances of the process. Best Glue for Ceiling Tile
Among the set of materials for decorative, the so-called foam ceiling tile is distinguished. The cheaper and the ease with which it passes on the ceiling, take it into the discharge of the most frequently used materials - if it comes to good cosmetic repairs, then better than foam tile anything is very difficult to find.
Disadvantages and advantages of ceiling tiles of foam
From the point of view of technical characteristics, it is not necessary to talk about the benefits of tiles of foam from polyfoam - they are not so much. In addition to affordable prices and ease of installation, the following points can be distinguished:
First, it is a light weight of the material, thanks to which the cutting of the ceiling tile is carried out easily, and the adhesives used for these purposes are not particularly durable and as a result of the high cost.
Secondly, according to manufacturers, it is heat and sound insulation. The question is quite controversial, if we consider that, on average, the size of the ceiling tile, and more precisely its thickness, as a rule, does not exceed 10mm.
Thirdly, if we are talking about the tile made not from the foam, but from the polyterol, you can add such a positive moment as its resistance to ignition - it only melts and deform. It begins to burn at very high temperatures.
On this, with advantages, you can finish and move to disadvantages - they are much more, but we will pay attention only to the main one.
1. The foam tile is very easily injured even with stupid objects.
2. It has a small life - after a couple of years she will yellow. In principle, this drawback is fairly easy to correct and turn into an advantage, the foam tile for the ceiling is very easily painted with ordinary water-emulsion paint.
3. Perepecility - Polyfoam poses in the room the effect of the thermos, which deprives the wall of the ability to absorb excess moisture. If such a ceiling is combined, for example, with vinyl wallpaper, the likelihood that the fungus settles in the room, increases several times.
In general, not everything is as simple as it seems, and when installing the ceiling of foam tiles, it is necessary to clearly weigh everything in and against. In addition, despite the ease of working with this tile, to obtain a high-quality ceiling, you must familiarize yourself with the technological intricacies of this process.
How to glue the ceiling tile: surface preparation
Solving the issue, how to glue the ceiling tile, begins with the preparation of the ceiling surface. Supervised actions do not need to produce here. If earlier the ceiling of your room was saved by wallpaper, then after their dismantling, the surface will only be predicted, but if we are talking about whitewashed surfaces, then the chalk will have to wash off and only after that it is a primer.
If a large curvature is characteristic of the existing ceiling, and as it usually happens, significant differences between slabs of overlappings, then to obtain a really smooth surface and polyterol plates, it is desirable to align it. Tile, as a rule, can be smoothed irregularities within a centimeter - if you achieve such a state of affairs, then you will eventually get a smooth and pretty ceiling.
What glue to use
Surely sellers in the store for sticking foam tiles will be advised to make the glue on the "Dragon" like. I will say honestly, to glue a foam on him - a very mockery of myself. It can only be used in one case - when sticking the foam on the perfectly smooth surface. And that the tile sticks to the ceiling, it will need to hold his hands for some time.
For uneven ceilings, the best glue will be a finish putty - it is with its help that you can not only glue the foam tile, but at the same time align the ceiling without resorting to the help of all kinds of backups and spacers. Professional masters are it used.
Foam tile gluing technology
In the process of sticking the ceiling tiles, many have come across such a problem as a failure of seams between individual cards. So, to minimize such a misunderstanding, starting sticking it is necessary from the middle of the room. A axes are strictly located on the center of the room, with respect to which the tile begged with the middle of the room.
Most people prefer to stick the ceiling cards from foam diagonally. In this case, the axes are locked a little differently - they should pass from the angle in the angle and are located relative to each other at an angle of 90˚. If the angle is fuzzy, then one wonderful moment will happen all the same cards.
Having placing the axis for the ceiling tiles, you can proceed to direct gluing. In order not to close the placed axes, the putty is better to smear directly on the tile - it is done with a comb, which is used to clamp surfaces with tiles. If the ceiling has irregularities to a centimeter, then preference is better than a comb with a large tooth, not less than 12mm. If this is not enough, you will additionally have to smear and the ceiling - it is necessary to do it carefully, so as not to erase the axis. Tile and ceiling should be smeared in opposite directions.
The smeared tile is applied to the ceiling and aligns with a level that is used as a rule. One single tile to install in the required plane is quite difficult, so it is better to stick the square room in the middle and only after that set the plane of the future ceiling, which opiate the level at once into two tiles in all directions. All other ceiling cards are glued similarly and set to the plane with the already bleached with the same level or rule.
With this approach to the case from all four sides of the premises, you will get a clock - there is nothing terrible in it. It is better to have cutting cards under the walls than the failures in the middle of the ceiling.
Well, finally, several tips. Most tile seam failures are obtained due to their different size - to avoid this, the cards are better to stick with a small (1-2 mm) distance from each other. Subsequently, these seams can be seen all the same putty. Baguettes are better glued on top of the tile already after its complete laying - so you get rid of the docking curve of the ceiling tile to bugtam. The cocked ceiling tile from the foam with neatly sealed seams is best immediately after drying to paint with water-level paint - so you will finally hide all the flaws in the work. It is possible to repaint foam to 5-7 times, so that the next repairs will only refresh the ceiling.
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