wooden board with each year becomes more and more expensive.It has not everyone can afford to furnish the room and feel of natural materials.The choice often falls on a practical inexpensive substitute.
MDF wall panels on the building materials market appeared long ago and quickly gained a popularity.Decorating the walls with boards of MDF in Russia is conducted for several decades.No need to be a master at the Principal level, to quickly and inexpensively make a new room well-kept appearance.You will need a precision, accuracy and basic skills home handyman.
What are the MDF?
This building material made by hot pressing of dry shredded waste wood processing enterprises.Under the influence of a couple of chips are soft and pliable.The smallest fibers, twisting, connected to each other even without the intervention of glue-components.As a result, the structure of the panel is like a felt, but the concentrated enormous pressure.How to visually look MDF panels?Photos used in this article will help make them an idea.
MDF boards are no different with some heavy-duty performance, but due to the absence in the gluing substances are completely harmless.Installation of the panels can be carried out by any glue for wood.
used tools
, of course, does not provide, but the main instrument, without which it can not do, should be at hand:
- Roulette.It is best to use a 5-meter-long specimen.
- Building level.It can be made from a conventional harness attached at the end of the nut.
- nozzle drill.Perfect replacement screwdriver.
- metal bench with various legs of square.It is suitable for cutting of slopes.
- jigsaw or any hacksaw with fine teeth.It is desirable to have two hacksaw - with transverse and longitudinal gashes.
- grinder for cutting metal profiles, if the frame will be collected from them.The tool must have a protective cover.
- usual tools that should be in every host: knife, screwdriver, pencil or marker, a set of drills, hammer, small nails (cobblers).
Preparatory work
Before attach the MDF panels will have to spend a lot of preparatory work.It is necessary for safety fasteners.On wooden surfaces, everything is clear - the process is much easier to conduct the installation.Difficulties arise with brick walls.
The first step is to remove the baseboards.The expanded or crumbling plaster better to remove completely to the ground.Immediately noticeable are the hidden defects of capital walls that need to be addressed.
cracks and crevices is recommended to cover mortars.Once the putty harden, nuzhnopokryt wall primer and give it a few hours for drying.
installation process
finishing MDF panels is conducted in two ways:
1) with adhesive;
2) installation of a hard skeleton.
wooden frame is going to or from a special metal profiles MDF (it is a steel channel of thin metal).
crate of wooden bars to make easier and cheaper.Although the entire frame later need to handle fire staff.This, too, will take some time.Wall panels are attached to the rails by means klyaymerov (another name - clip).Sami rails are perpendicular to the wall panels.
Frame method
Thus, we consider how to strengthen the MDF panels.Depending on the size of the boards, the number of rows of rods will be different.The standard room where the ceiling height does not exceed 2.5 m, enough for 4-5 runs along the entire wall.The main thing - after installing panels were tight, and not "play" after any contact.
upper bracket is mounted on the frame of 15-20 cm below the ceiling.At the same distance from the floor fixed bottom bracket.Medium frame rails are placed in equal proportions between the outer bars.It is desirable that the distance between the slats should not exceed 50-60 cm. Also, do not forget about the frame mounting points on the perimeter around windows and doors.
Where a panel is a slot mounted klyaymer.Example, the upper and lower body and making sure the wall board is level, extreme clip is fixed on the rails with screws.Then add the remaining fasteners - the number of runs of the frame.Follow your spine board is inserted into the groove of the first panel, and also recorded clips on all strips.
Do not forget that the very first panel is rigidly mounted on rails over the screws on the part of the spike.Just firmly attached and extreme board, which is rarely intact.All traces of the installation is usually hidden behind decorative corners.A great option in this case - MDF profile.He organically fit the overall design of the room.
adhesive method
Another way to strengthen the MDF panels require perfectly flat and clean walls.The carrier can be any surface - plywood, concrete, brick or plasterboard.Glued panels often on the "liquid nails".This adhesive is suitable to any surface.
In this installation method has serious drawbacks.Dismantling of buildings goes hard.Board constantly breaks down.To align the walls is necessary to smooth out the hardened remains of glue, and it is quite difficult.
Replacing several new wall boards also entail a lot of problems.All remaining wall may reared up, lost her slenderness, and accordingly attractive.
In addition, the inside of the MDF boards are not treated moisture repellent composition, and in the case of wet bearing wall panel with a swell time, and it will begin to warp.
Which way is better?
If the walls or laying a large MDF panels have decided to do horizontally along the length of the room, it is best suitable frame option.Also, this method provides and wall insulation, however, with somewhat reduced amount of space.Such a method is useful in the case when there is a large surface roughness.
room with low ceilings and smooth walls faster and cheaper "dignify" glue method.Here the loss of room sizes will be minimal.
is to determine and performers of the work.Mounting panels MDF is not only from the immediate installation of boards themselves.Before you start, it is necessary to determine the amount of the purchased material and fastener elements.We must not forget about the existence of certain nuances that the common man, the average man can not be known.Later wall decoration panels MDF takes time proportional to your experience.
Pretreatment and repair of fixed walls also require some knowledge and skills.The solution suggests itself - to entrust the repair of the best professionals.
Now you have an idea on how to fix MDF panels.Nothing cunning and extremely complex in such work there, but the master, of course, make it and better, and faster.However, everything depends on the thickness of the purse and the size of your experience in conducting similar work.The choice is yours.
