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August 12, 2017 18:05

How to quickly and easily bent plasterboard with their hands - practical tips

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Currently, both during construction and during renovation or redevelopment premises are increasingly using a material such as drywall.It differs sufficient strength, and thus quite easily processed.After all, everyone wants to equip your home, not only as good as possible and more comfortable, but also make the original with elements of uniqueness, of individuality.The classic form of the interior already jostle new form - asymmetrical, sometimes quite unusual.It allows you to translate the drywall in the design of a house or apartment the most incredible fantasy owners.

In practice, use different ways to bend drywall, with this material allows you to bend yourself at different radii.It is often used in the manufacture of arched, dome-shaped structures and other shapes.rooms using drywall ceilings can be made as multistage, and vaulted.This material is well suited for finishing the construction of the room of projections, columns.They can mask tube wiring, as well as hide the defects of the walls, ceiling and floor.




Drywall is divided into wall, ceiling, and arched.Arched material brand GKLA (GCR) is ideal for all kinds of twists.Its radius at the minimum bending greater than that of other types of material.You need to know that the larger the thickness of the sheet, the greater the minimum bend radius.

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Methods bending drywall

When bending a sheet of drywall at a large radius should wet it with one hand with warm water.Plaster absorbs moisture and becomes pliable in bending.Usually applied for future water bending axes two or three times to the material (plaster) thoroughly wet.This can be done with a brush, cloth, roller.Suffice it to 10 minutes (depending on the room temperature), and the sheet can be bent.After bending is necessary to fix it in the desired position, and allow time to dry.When the plaster dries, it will obtain the desired solid form.

When bending to a small radius should be taken and a sheet thinner.It is necessary for the folding axis of the two sides to make a number of small holes in the drywall surface before treating it with water.You can do this a thick needle or small nail, for example.Multiple holes remove the surface tension and prevent damage to the sheet during bending.

There are other ways to bend drywall sheets.Methods used depending on the species, thickness, and whether, in what used to be a curved leaf.

Sometimes, care should be taken about making the required form template.While working on it, it's hard to go wrong with the bending of the sheet of drywall on the appropriate form.We should not forget that the plasterboard afraid of water, and therefore, it is undesirable to use it in places with high humidity, and even more abundantly wet when cleaning the room.

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