This is quite an interesting design with a flap and a chimney decorated with colored lights and flickering candles. If you wish to create your favorite home decorative fireplace, then you have a great opportunity to explore the article in which he described how to make a fireplace made of plasterboard with their hands.
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Being close to him, I want to plunge into the magical charm of the logs in the hearth. People living in the apartment wish to have a decorative fireplace from the drywall, it can be constructed easily and with pleasure.
You should be aware that they are divided into:
- contingencies;
- reliable;
- symbolic;
In conditional portal fireplace is made so that this space can be fitted in a real electric appliance.
Authentic fireplaces - a copy of the original, they are carried out in full size and made out as the original. Set in the furnace burner bio fireplaces, that is a natural burning fireplace.
Symbolic fireplaces - a picture on the wall or plaster cast, using a variety of jewelry items.
Fireplace made of plasterboard with their hands, step by step guide
Before you start to collect the design, which should be observed Drawing the future of the fireplace.
Drawing fire from drywall
In order to make a fireplace made of plasterboard with their hands, you will need the following tools and material
Tool:
photo tool
Material:
Photo of metal for the frame
photo drywall
How to make a fireplace made of plasterboard
After studying drawing, begin to spray marking. Its assembly is made of galvanized profiles and sheets GCR.
- Using a pencil and a ruler applied the line of the future of the heater.
Build the fire with his hands is as follows:
Cut trim profile size, line drawings. Further, the inner side of a line drawn by, the profile is attached to the plastic anchors.
- Holes in the wall and the floor is made with a drill or hammer drill pobeditovym - if the concrete floor, and the walls are brick or block.
- And if the surface of the floor and walls are made of wood, then apply the screws on wood, after all guides attached, that is, brought the basic outline of the decorative fireplace.
Next, cut the guide profile size. Connect them to each other by metal screws.
Photo of metal compounds
To create a frame rigidity and build a fireplace with his hands quickly and reliably should be made from the wall profile pieces sawn "grinder" right size, according to the drawing.
- They are attached after 20 - 40 cm from each other.
If your portal will be installed electric heater, it is necessary to pre-pave the wiring and put the socket.
Photo frame corner fireplace made of plasterboard
To bend the semi-circle of the metal sheets is required, proceed as follows:
- Scissors for metal wall profile on every 2 cm incision lateral side up to the entire depth of the flat base.
- Next, bend profile underneath the desired format.
After mounting the frame start a covering. The inner surface of the combustor flame retardant sheathed GCR - in the event that this recess is mounted an electric fireplace. And the rest of the surface of the fireplace sheathed with conventional, gray plasterboard.
Photos of the finished frame of wall fireplace
- How to gradually cut the drywall
The template is made of cardboard. It is laid on a sheet of GCR and outline with a pencil. Further, a special knife, cut one of the layers of cardboard and plaster broken off at the cut, for example through the section angle. This action should be carried out by a sharp downward pressure. Breaking off his cut another piece of cardboard.
- Preparation for bending
It should be remembered that the drywall, with proper training, can be bent into the desired range, as follows:
- One side of puncture needles special roller, to a depth of 3 mm. Thus, to create a hole to get to the plaster, which makes it more brittle.
- Next, moisten it with water from a spray, just the other side, where there is a puncture. This helps soften the gypsum, it becomes more pliable to bend.
- The sheet is left to stand for 15 minutes. After this time, begin to produce a smooth squeezing from different angles, bringing it to the desired radius.
- The softened material is carefully fixed to the frame made of the profile and leave it for a day, until completely dry.
- At the end of plating, the structure should be filled.
- At joints in the corners of applied plaster trowel, it is glued on top of a special setochka- "serpyanka", and the trace is applied on top of it a layer of more filler.
- Further, all this "cake" gently pressed against the plasterboard and pulled up and down with a spatula, under an angle of 700Will act plaster - its gently removed.
Screws, which are screwed to the frame of the FCL bit deepened with a screwdriver.
Above them, spatula applied plaster foregoing manner, the entire structure is left to dry for a day.
- After drying, the surface must be sanded with sandpaper of fine fraction.
The next step on the decorative fire, a paint roller or brush flywheel for interior works, applied primer deep penetration. It must dry completely.
painting the fireplace
If you decide to paint or what color it should be the entire surface more proshpaklevat twice. That is, apply one coat, let it dry for a day, and then apply the next.
- After drying the second layer, the surface of hides, removing all irregularities.
Next, primer is applied in one layer, after its complete drying of the paint is applied in two layers.
If you decide to make finish facing material, the surface is primed drywall putty.
Making decorative elements
Its decorated with a variety of ways. Finishing is carried out in an interesting art direction, so that at the end of all the work it is difficult to distinguish from the real focus.
Decorate fireplace following materials:
- brick;
- mahogany;
- artificial or natural stone;
- ready plaster decorative elements;
- a variety of colored wallpaper under a brick or natural stone.
Decision to accept you, than you will decorate your own fireplace in your apartment.
When choosing the material for the design of the heater, you should pay attention to it in harmony with the overall interior room.
Portal can decorate the following interesting way: a pre-prepared fresh wood is desirable from the forest to the space filled esters timber.
Next, doing the small holes under the candles, preferably randomly.
Logs in a chaotic manner, stacked in the furnace, and accurately into the holes set candles.
this registration will give the fireplace some romance. Being close to him, people will enjoy watching the little lights glow in the fireplace.
After studying the article, you may realize that you have the opportunity to invest a little of your time and resources to create in his apartment a comfortable and harmonious hearth. Being next to him, you will enjoy the rest after a hard day at work or have a drink seagulls with their family and friends.
