How to install suspended ceilings in the bathroom

Features ceiling with plastic panels

Plastic rack option - this is what is most often chooses the consumer in the market today.The modules in such a construction made of polyvinyl chloride that is completely safe for human health.In addition, this material has a number of advantages:

• advantageous embodiment of the suspension system;
• Resistant to moisture;
• unpretentious in care;
• durable and practical;
• bad insulates against cold and noise;
• Creates a pleasant interior.

Reiki are PVC varnish, which significantly increases the resistance to the negative influence of the environment and generates an antistatic effect, so that dust accumulates on the surface is not as common.Such suspended ceilings to the bathroom do not require special cleaning agents - plastic panels can be washed with plain water.

And the original design of the ceiling can be created due to the fact that PVC is easy to color.

Metal pendant design

When it comes to material selection for rack and pinion design, many stops on a system with aluminum panels.In addition to waterproofing, metal structure has some advantage over PVC:

• Sustainability;
• Fire;
• Svetotrazhenie;
• Zvukopoglaschenie;
• Aluminum does not rust and is not deformed;
• service life - up to 50 years.

To improve waterproofing experts do not recommend to alternate the aluminum modules with elements of steel, because in contact with water, together, these elements are more susceptible to corrosion.

approach to cleaning aluminum ceiling must be more scrupulous than to clean plastic.Pollution is best removed using abrasive cleaners, although the condensate dries almost leaves no trace.

Unlike plastic suspension system, metal rails are produced in a wide range.Their impressive range of length and width allows you to choose the required number of adaptations and without undercut, which further simplifies installation and saves time.

to the bathroom to create complex design pendant schemes are not recommended in view of the small size of the room and constant contact with moisture, but if you decide to implement one of his creative imagination, it is definitely a metal structure suitable for this purpose is better.There is a ready-made rectangular German, Italian rounded, cubic and V-shaped modules, which in combination will create the most stylish interior.

Mounting rack ceiling

Before mounting the suspension system, it is necessary to remove from the main roof whitewash and plaster, which will crumble, and thereby interfere with installing suspended ceilings for a bathroom.You also need to maximize free bathroom from foreign objects and furniture.

1. As the installation of any ceiling to mark up the beginning of the profile mounting.Depending on the curvature of the base number required back down the ceiling centimeters (5 to 15).
2. Then fasten specialized modules on the shaded lines.And on the whole perimeter of the ceiling is necessary to put the strap on which further cross-section will be installed, which is attached to the rack.
   

   

3. To hide the joints of the panel to the wall, to the strips, standing on the perimeter of a rectangle, fix the L-shaped profile with self-tapping screws.
   
4. Set scheduled communications (ventilation, wiring) and make holes for the bulbs.
5. Fill ceiling space rack panels.The most difficult thing at this stage - to fix "enclosing" rail asit is necessary to adjust its width by the distance that remains to the wall.

more detailed description of the installation, you can view the video in the next tab before the article.

suspended ceilings for a bathroom have a huge number of advantages.But, despite this, as a result of improper installation, defects such as small cracks can occur quite soon.Therefore, the quality and sustainability of the ceiling depends on its fair installation.