False wall plasterboard

When carrying out repairs in residential apartments, it is often necessary to manufacture so-called false walls, which are a fairly fashionable and widespread method of decorating rooms today. Such a wall of plasterboard will completely transform the interior of the living space.

The need for such structures can also arise in the case of redevelopment of residential spaces due to the manufacture of partitions that completely imitate a real wall. With regard to the materials used in the preparation of such structures, for their arrangement most often used classic drywall.

Before you make a false wall of plasterboard, you should carefully familiarize yourself with the requirements for the procedure of such works. One of these requirements is the need to prepare all the necessary tools, as well as materials used in the manufacture.

Materials and tools

Before starting the installation, you will need to stock up on the following consumables:

• sheet gypsum plasterboard in quantities corresponding to the total area of ​​the spaces to be closed;
• special profiles used for mounting or wooden beams of a given section;
• dowel-nails, as well as metal and wood screws (in some cases, butterfly-type dowels may be required);
• special primer and putty mixtures used for surface finishing.

In addition, you will definitely need the following tool:

• a wooden girl or a hammer;
• hacksaw (electric jigsaw);
• electric drill, perforator and screwdriver;
• a set of spatulas of several types;
• level, well sharpened knife and tape measure.

Surface preparation

When carrying out finishing work, special attention should be paid to the preparation of surfaces that act as the basis for decoration. In our case, such a surface is the plane of the supporting frame, assembled from standard metal profiles or wooden bars of your chosen section.

Even before the false wall takes its final form, you have to deal with issues related to the placement of communications used on this site. In addition (if necessary) will have to worry about the arrangement of heat and sound insulation.

In practice, two types of frames, made from widely used materials, can be used as the basis for plasterboard walls. First of all - it is a classic wooden crate, characterized by relative cheapness and ease of execution. The second type of frame is a rigid metal structure assembled from profiles of a given size.

Unlike wooden crates, which does not have a special durability, the lifetime of metal frames is practically unlimited. In addition, most of the elements of this design are resistant to moisture and moisture, which eliminates the need for additional protection.

Profile frames are easily restored after mechanical damage and can always be reused. The only drawback of such structures is their price, the value of which significantly exceeds the cost of wooden analogues.

Metal frame installation procedure

As an example, we suggest you consider the option of arranging the wall with sliding interior doors, implemented by yourself.

The assembly of the metal frame for such a design should be made in the following sequence:

• first, the marking of the supporting surfaces of the floor and the ceiling under the guide profiles;
• then follows the marking of the seats of the brackets installed on the main walls;
• after that, the brackets and guide profiles are attached to the positions prepared for them in accordance with the marking made;
• and at the end of the assembly, vertical pillars are installed along the marking line, setting the position of the door pillars and the plane of the upcoming decoration.

It is clear that when preparing the frame, there should be a place for a sliding door, hidden in the thickness of the wall being mounted. Fastenings for the door structure should be installed in advance, which provides the possibility of subsequent adjustment of the movement of the blade along its guides.

Final finish

Once the frame is installed and thoroughly fixed in place - you can begin to finish it. All operations for facing the frame are carried out according to a known scheme in the following order:

• first of all, prepared sheets of drywall, spaced under the mounting dimensions of the mounted frame;
• finished sheets are stacked near the work site in a sequence that corresponds to the order of their installation in the frame cells;
• the installation of blanks is best to start from the main wall, followed by finishing the entire area of ​​the frame;
• self-tapping screws used for fastening are screwed in steps of 15? 25 cm; at the same time their heads should be completely embedded in the thickness of the material.

Grouting

At the final stage of the arrangement of the false walls, the grouting of the joints formed at the junction of the drywall blanks, as well as the removal of small irregularities that are always on the surface of the sheets, are performed. In this case, the trowel mixture is processed not only the seams, but also the caps of the self-tapping screws recessed into the material. After that, using fine-grained pelts, the surface of the future partition is carefully ground.

Thanks to this operation, you should get a perfectly flat plane that does not have any visible defects. Upon completion of grouting and grinding, the surface prepared for finishing is primed manually or using a special roller, and then thoroughly puttied.

After high-quality grouting and puttying on the surface of the wall structure should not remain even the smallest traces of the seams and screws.

Recommendations of specialists

In conclusion, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with a number of recommendations emanating from people with extensive personal work experience of this class. Experienced experts advise to pay attention to the following working points:

1. It is not allowed to use drywall in rooms with high humidity levels (above 85%) and temperatures below plus 10 degrees Celsius.
2. Before starting putty work it is recommended to ventilate the room in order to reduce the air humidity in it. In addition, direct installation of false walls should also be carried out in conditions of full ventilation of living spaces.
3. It is desirable that self-tapping screws used as fasteners have a zinc coating, which excludes the possibility of the formation of rusty stains on the surface of the partition.

Do not try to save on spackling operations. Such a "savings" you significantly reduce the service life of materials used in the finishing.

Video

Watch a master class on the construction of a false wall of plasterboard from Alexei Zemskov: