Quality and beautiful bathrooms made finish may be slightly spoil the unsightly appearance of open water and sewer pipes. Useful information on how to sew the tube in the bathroom, toilet or kitchen plastic panels help give these rooms a complete and beautiful look. A usability of plastic will allow in the future without much labor and material costs dismantling of the construction and design of the restoration, carry out the necessary repair work on the networks communications.
Preparations for the closure of plastic pipes
Any construction and installation work must be preceded by a preparatory. The process of preparation for the closure of the pipe in the toilet and the bathroom can be divided into several stages.
revision pipelines
To avoid re-repair, the dismantling of executed finishing bathrooms and kitchens, the first step is to conduct a detailed inspection of pipelines for the absence of leaks.
In apartments where network engineering, especially of cast iron pipes, have long terms operation, it is recommended, even when they are apparently good condition, replaced by pipe plastic.
Choosing Communication masking options
The second step is to determine the masking one pipe for a particular room.
There are two options:
- Creating a false wall, behind which are hidden all communications.
- The apparatus of one or more boxes that conceal only the pipe.
The former is easier to implement and allows the construction of a solid wall to conceal all pipes.
The second - the technically complicated, and depending on the location of pipes in the room may require a separate conduit for sewer and water pipes. However, this method is more preferable from the viewpoint of space saving toilets or kitchens.
Preparing the tool for the job
To carry out the preparatory and main works necessary to prepare the necessary materials and tools. These include:
- hacksaw or jigsaw with saws for metal;
- Mounting the knife;
- roulette, pencil or marker;
- level and a plumb;
- hammer and screwdriver;
- fasteners (screws, dowels, nails, evroshurupy, klyaymery PVC panels);
- building square;
- preservative or protective treatment for wood structures;
- Galvanized metal profiles (types ud, cd);
- starter profile for panels;
- decorative ceiling molding;
- floor plinth;
- silicone sealant.
And, of course, necessary to prepare the panels themselves, the choice of which is based upon the preferences of the owners, and taking into account the overall design of a bathroom or kitchen.
Drawing up the plan and carrying out marking
Having defined the option of decorating tubes, must be on paper to make a large-scale floor plan with a sketch of the future construction.
A distance between the panels and tubes, primarily, hot water, shall be at least 3 cm.
Important! In drawing up the sketch it is necessary to design in the construction of a free access to the valves, fittings and flow meters, through the windows device with doors or removable covers.
Make a plan, you must:
- calculate the desired material;
- cause marks on the walls, floor and ceiling.
To cover the vertical pipes, coating or wall boxes circuit to start from the floor. After that, with the help of a plumb line, to project the marks on the ceiling.
Jumper device on the vertical guide beacons scheduled increments of 40-50 cm and is made strictly parallel markings on the perimeter walls or boxes.
frame construction for closing pipes
Before starting to close the tube in a toilet plastic panels must build frame serving as a base for mounting panels thereto. The frame can be made of the following materials:
- Wooden beams.
- Profile PVC plastic panels;
- Galvanized metal profile.
Tip! Using the facilities of the housing and wooden lathing parts, necessary to protect their impregnation antiseptic compositions.
Technology of work in the above embodiments, the masking pipes (false wall or conduit) are similar. Most often in practice to hide pipes in bathrooms and kitchens embodiment used with the device box and used for this material - galvanized profile.
Considering this method, the frame structure for the cladding of pipes in the bathroom, toilet or kitchen plastic panels as follows:
- ud fixing guide rail to the wall;
- Rack installation outer corner by connecting two profiles ud directed at right angles in different directions;
- fastening carrier webs on the profile of the strut cd (at frame height of more than 1 m and a width of less than 0.25 m).
Lintel inserted at one end into the guide profile, and the other - to the outer edge of the corner, at a distance from each other - 40-50 cm.
A compound of structural elements is made by means of screws or Prosekatel. By the walls of the mounting angles are fixed with dowels or evrovintami (SCREW).
Recommendation! Fastening between a vertical and horizontal profiles of the easiest to do Prosekatel
Mount racks to the floor and the ceiling is made by bending the profile or using hangers.
Installation of PVC panels
After the boxes are mounted base, you can go to directly mounting the panels. The sequence of execution is as follows:
- fasten with screws, "Flea" to ud profile (at the wall) start molding;
- install ceiling moldings on the ceiling, if it is not used ceiling moldings;
- trim panel to the desired size with a hacksaw or knife assembly;
- insert a narrow shelf panel in the start profile;
- fix the panel through a wide shelf to the transverse profiles;
- similarly the subsequent panels are mounted.
The panels produced using klyaymerov, staples or screws.
Recommendation! For a more dense and tight joints the panels fit together, the side edges prior to docking, can promazyvat thin silicone layer.
Usually, when you install the final lamella it becomes necessary to trim the width. For this purpose, the panel is inverted, and applied to the wall along the edge of the already installed panel planned cutting line. Cut off the excess width of the panel is easy with a hacksaw or jigsaw.
To make the design of hiding the pipe, the monolithic appearance, must be installed on all the corner joints of plastic moldings (outer or universal angle).
After the pipe in the bathroom, toilet or kitchen hidden under plastic panels, place their contiguity to the floor and ceiling are decorated with baseboard moldings. It remains to restore order after the work and experience the satisfaction of looking at the results of their work.
