One of the best solution options for ceiling finishing is stretch ceilings. This simple and very effective way came to Russia from Europe, where it has been used and developed since the 60s of the last century. This solution allows you to quickly and very high -quality transform any room, creating a new and absolutely even ceiling in it.
Stretch ceilings today make up many different rooms. These are apartments, and hotel norms, and offices, and shops, and restaurants. Everyone recognizes the huge advantages over this technology over other methods of ceiling decoration.
Installation of stretch ceilings begins with the choice of material. The stretch ceiling in the room can be either tissue or polyvinyl chloride. Fabric ceilings are more expensive than PVC, but have more environmental friendliness. In addition, the width of the roll of tissue ceilings (up to 5 m) makes it possible to install seamless ceilings, which is very well reflected in the overall aesthetics of the room. For their part, polyvinyl chloride ceilings have an almost unlimited selection of colors and shades, in addition, you can choose a glossy or matte surface. Which is better — you decide.
After you have decided on the material, it is necessary to very carefully measure the entire room around the perimeter and determine in which places lighting devices will be located. When this plan is created and all sizes are known, the opening of the polyvinyl chloride canvas begins. All such work is carried out in production, and a ready -made canvas is brought to your apartment.
The installation of suspended ceilings in the room begins with the creation of a baguette — a special aluminum frame, on which the canvas of the stretch ceiling will be attached. For this, installation experts create it in your apartment around the entire perimeter of the room. When the baguette is ready, the canvas is mounted on it, and the air is heated to 60 ° C. With an increase in temperature, polyvinyl chloride appears additional properties of elasticity and the film can be well pulled on the frame, fixing its position after that. When the temperature decreases, the film will additionally tighten and the ceiling will become perfectly even. In fact, stretch ceilings in the room are ready.
However, it is also necessary to carry out the installation of lighting, which is performed as follows. In places where the lamps will be located, a special ring is glued on the canvas and a hole is made inside the ring. This approach is due to the fact that otherwise the stretched canvas will immediately “spread” if you make at least one damage in it. After that, all lamps or chandeliers are connected to the wiring and the room can be used.
Stretch ceilings can serve you for a very long time if all the work was done efficiently, without hack and shortcomings. Therefore, only specialists should always be chosen, not to trust these processes to the “shabashnikov” brigades and, of course, not to do it yourself.
If all the work is carried out professionally, in compliance with the entire installation technology, then the stretch ceilings have another very profitable feature. They can prevent the flood in your apartment. If your neighbors flood you, then the polyvinyl chloride film will take the whole blow, which will begin to stretch, and all arriving water will begin to gather in these places. In the future, experienced installers will be able to drain the water and return the ceiling to their place, as it was before flooding by neighbors. Such an advantage has already saved many apartments from repairs and therefore it is chosen by those whom the neighbors often flood, and those who simply want to protect against such life phenomena.