Bazzst! The angle of the new metal cornice, which they tried to install before the holiday, caught a film on the ceiling and tore the most expensive in the apartment - the French stretch ceiling. Without looking at the widening eyes of his wife, who was suddenly silent, the Master ran after the scotch. And do you know how to eliminate the damage to stretch ceilings with your own hands?
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The long-awaited chic stretch ceiling is a fragile and whimsical thing and requires careful treatment. Sufficiently small mechanical damage in order to make the appearance of the stretch ceiling spoiled. After all, the ceiling material is still a film, about 0.3 mm thick, so damage can occur.
How to deal with such unforeseen cases and repair the damage yourself?
What kind of damage can happen
Damage to stretch ceilings can be classified as follows:
• breakthrough of the film, leading to further spread of the damage zone
• a mechanical cut produced by a sharp object
• Sinking due to water saturation
• peeling of the fastening baguette
• Thermal breakage of the film due to prolonged temperature effects.
The subsequent repair of stretch ceilings will depend on the type of exposure to external influences. Therefore, what kind of stretch ceiling in your apartment is, therefore, and should be received in case of damage.
Suddenly, the damage should be urgently liquidated.
Break through the film
The most common cases of damage to the stretch ceiling can be called a breakthrough and a cut. Breakthrough PVC film can happen anywhere on the surface, and from this no one is immune. Therefore, after the detection of the damage zone, it is necessary to quickly fix the edges of the cut or cut, because the film under the influence of the tension force has the property of rapidly spreading the damage.
To eliminate the consequences of a breakthrough, use ordinary scotch tape or an adhesive plaster from the home medicine chest. Stick adhesive tape or adhesive plaster on the edges of the breakthrough. Well, now call the master or repair the damage yourself.
There are plenty of restoration options. The main economical options: you can install a luminaire in the resulting hole, cut a false hood or paste a decor on the subject.
You are damned lucky if the stretch ceiling has a fabric base. In this case, you can eliminate the breakthrough with your own hands. For this case, you need to take a tissue tape or ribbon of fiberglass and seal the torn area.
To prevent the patches from being visible, you can partially tint some of the canvas and the resulting seam or decorate it.
If the break is in the wall area at a distance of up to 15 cm and the size of the rupture or cut does not exceed 20 cm, then it is necessary to glue the patch from the inside.
A patch made from stretch ceiling material is fed from the inside of the ceiling from the breakout area and gently stuck. After work on the front side you will see a small seam. On matte or fabric ceilings, this seam is almost invisible, but on glossy it will be visible. Zadekoriruyte seam place special application with crystals of Swarovski. About that under this application there is no seam, except for you personally, does not recognize.
Cutting ceiling
The mechanical cut produced by the edge of an acute object can have a long configuration with divergent edges of the web. Eliminate the consequences of cuts by gluing a cracked cut with scotch tape or adhesive plaster. The cut on the stretch ceiling can also be in any part.
If the cutting area is located closer to the edge of the wall, at a distance of no more than 10 cm, then the damaged area can be repaired by stretching the film. In this case, the damaged part of the tensioned surface of the ceiling is dismantled. Damage is tightened, an additional harpoon is mounted, the film heats up and is neatly refilled in the profile. Such a "cosmetic lift" does not leave visible signs of damage or repair.
Flooding water from above
A common type of damage, but rather a nuisance, is flooding your stretch ceiling with water from the neighbors from the top. Slowly, a drop by drop, a significant mass of water will accumulate in space behind the stretch ceiling of your apartment.
Leakage becomes evident when the ceiling is drawn into the sagging bubble on the ceiling. We warn you, it is undesirable to pierce such a bubble. There is another way to eliminate leakage. If there is a chandelier or fixtures in the ceiling, they are dismantled and the accumulated water is poured into the formed hole. If the flow of water is continuous, then it will be necessary to dismantle the ceiling on one side and drain the water into a prudently prepared container.
"Flood" can be considered a natural disaster for a stretch ceiling. Here, nothing is pasted and darned with white thread. Moreover, the amount of water is always higher than normal, so the fixing baguette will begin to flow away during the course of the leak. The only way to solve the problem is to eliminate leakage by qualified specialists who make the installation. It is not recommended to try to install it yourself. Specialists will carefully remove the ceiling cloth, dry it from the heat gun and also set it in place. That's how the stretch ceiling will have a pristine appearance.
Violation of the temperature regime
In some cases, due to improper and incorrect installation of lighting fixtures and with a daily temperature effect, the PVC film may become distorted at the fixing points.
Unfortunately, stretch ceilings made of polyvinyl chloride under the influence of low or high temperatures quickly lose elasticity, crack and become completely unusable. To prevent the situation can either complete replacement of the tension ceiling, or partial replacement of defective areas. In this case, the decoration with the use of multi-level hinged elements.
The most common way to eliminate damage is the wedge method presented in the video. Fastening of a stretched ceiling and the subsequent repair of a film of PVC or polyester fabric is carried out so.
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