How to glue the ceiling plinth?

How to glue the ceiling plinth? - This question is quite popular on the Internet. Very often, professional builders, in order to increase their skills and increase the cost of services, can slightly exaggerate the difficulty of gluing the skirting board to the ceiling. In fact, there is nothing easier than decorating the ceiling with baguettes, so you can do this work yourself. In our article, we will describe in detail how to properly glue the ceiling plinth in the corners, calculate the number of plinths, and cut corners on the fillets.

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Options for ceiling skirting boards

Ceiling frames are a simple, but, in turn, a very convenient and practical way to give the interior a sophisticated and complete look. Fillets, as they are commonly called in a professional environment, help to hide the gaps between the wallpaper and the ceiling, and are also used as a decorative element, with which they emphasize the special style of the room. Manufacturers of finishing materials produce these products of several types, each of them has its own consumer demand. Consider the most popular of them.

Polyurethane baseboards:

• The most popular and practical in the installation of finishing materials.
• Fillets have high strength and lightness.
• Polyurethane products are not afraid of moisture, so they can be installed in bathrooms and other rooms with high humidity.
• The elastic material allows you to design walls of almost any complexity.

Polystyrene baseboards:

• The plinth of this type, like the previous one, is light, flexible and moisture resistant.
• It has the additional property of soundproofing.
• The disadvantage of this material can be noted that with prolonged exposure to artificial light on the product, it may lose its original color over time.
• Skirting boards are not particularly durable, so care must be taken when working with it.

Skirting PVC:

• The cheapest option for finishing work.
• A huge range of colors allows you to choose products based on the features of the design of the room.

Important! PVC skirting boards are not suitable for decorating a room with poor hoods or humidity.

• The disadvantage of PVC products is weak strength and elasticity. With a slight mechanical effect, dents form on the surface, which significantly spoils the appearance of the finish.
• PVC products cannot be painted, otherwise the frieze may become deformed.

Important! If you decide to glue the fillets yourself, we recommend that you choose polyurethane products, as the material is lightweight, characterized by a long service life, and also has an affordable cost.

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How to glue skirting boards on the ceiling?

If you have leveled the ceiling, covered it with paint, and are going to glue the walls with wallpaper, then first think about how to edge them. If it was decided to finish the ceiling and walls with the help of fillets, then it is advisable to carry out wallpapering last.

Important! The skirting board glued to the wallpaper hangs on the wall much worse.

As a rule, the ceiling is repainted much less often than the wallpaper changes in the room. Thus, when changing the wall covering, the baseboard glued before gluing does not have to be changed.

How to calculate the number of skirting boards?

Want to know how to glue a ceiling plinth in the corners? The first stage of such work will not even be a purchase, but the calculation of the required amount of material, so first we will talk about this.

Before you go to the store for a purchase, we recommend that you at home in a quiet environment calculate the required number of fillets. If you glued the wallpaper yourself, then with this calculation there will be no difficulties:

• The perimeter of your room - this is the required length of the baseboard.

Important! In order to have as few joints as possible on the surface, choose products with a length of at least 2 m.

• Then we divide the perimeter of the room by the length of one plinth, and this is 2 m, in the end we get a figure that indicates the number of baguettes needed.

Important! In most cases, the number is not an integer, so round it to a higher value.

• Even if the number is even when calculating, get one more two-meter baseboard unit.

Important! An extra strip of fillet can come in handy in the event of an uneven cut or dent.

Skirting purchase

Before gluing the ceiling plinth in the corners, carefully inspect it for defects:

• Very often, in large stores, fillets are scratched during transportation and dents form on the surface.

• Make sure that all strips of fillets are the same in length and width.

Important! Sometimes goods from different lots have an unequal width, as a result of which it will not be possible to cut corners the same way during installation.

• Buy a tool with which you will stick them on the wall. Often, for these purposes use “liquid nails” or special glue. You can also get another type of adhesive, the main task is to quickly dry it.

Important! In a room with high ceilings, wide products harmoniously look - they visually reduce the height of the ceiling. Rooms with low ceilings are trimmed with a narrow baseboard.

• Take care in advance of the availability of all the necessary tools, if something is missing, buy it in a store.

Important! Be sure to purchase a miter box and white sealant. With the help of them you get perfectly smooth angles without gaps and crevices.

Getting started:

• First of all, immediately before gluing the corners of the ceiling plinth, wash your hands and work tool thoroughly.

Important! Snow-white skirting is very easy to get dirty. In some cases, traces are almost impossible to hide under a layer of paint.

• The repairmen in the premises recommend starting the plinth gluing from one of the corners. Thus, there will be less trim around the perimeter.
• If you are gluing the ceiling skirting for the first time, practice using a spare stick to cut an angle of 45 degrees.

Important! Use the miter box. Do not be discouraged if the result is not positive the first time, repeat the process several times.

• To correctly determine the angle of inclination, attach the baseboard to the ceiling, and you will see how to properly cut the corner.

Important! The frieze is slaughtered in mirror image. For finishing the inner corner, the upper edge should be shorter than the lower edge, for the outer corner - vice versa.

• You can speed up the finishing work with pre-prepared templates with external and internal corners.

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How to glue skirting boards?

So, all the preparatory work is finished, it's time to start gluing fillets. Next, we will describe in detail the sequence of actions, so you will not spoil the previously carried out repairs.

Work sequence:

• Glue must be applied to the surface of the ceiling and walls in one continuous strip.
• Next, the glue is applied to the surface of the baguette.

Important! Put the baguette treated with glue to the side, so that the adhesion to the wall will be much stronger.

• Place the fillet in a corner, press it evenly over the entire surface against the wall.
• Hold it for about 1 minute - this time is usually enough for the glue to set.
• Prepare rags in advance to remove excess glue.
• Next, glue the strip that runs butt to the corner on the other side.

Important! We recommend that you initially glue all the corners in the room, then it will be much easier for you to make markings and fill the remaining spaces between them.

• In case the walls are not too smooth, you will need plaster tape. When using it, the skirting boards will not peel off from the walls, and also after its use there are no traces on the surface.
• As soon as the entire perimeter is filled with a ceiling plinth, seal the gaps with white sealant.

Important! For better penetration, use a skeletal gun - this will squeeze out an even and thin line.

• Next, swipe your wet finger across the surface, as if squeezing it inward.

As a result of the work done, the ceiling and the glued baguette will have an ideal look.

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Features of gluing the skirting board to the stretch ceiling

If you decide to experiment in the design of the room and combine a stretch ceiling and a skirting board, then you need to take into account some of the nuances of such a duet:

• Since the material from which stretch ceilings are made is a synthetic film, it is impossible to glue fillets on it in principle.

Important! When applying glue to the surface of the material, it is not known how it will behave, in the best case, the film simply deforms, in the worst, it can dissolve.

• To all, stretch ceilings do not have rigidity, so slight fluctuations when pressed can spoil the adhesive seam of the ceiling and baseboard.
• But there is a proven way how to glue a foam baseboard in the corners of a stretch ceiling. In this case, gluing the baguette is necessary not on the ceiling material, but directly on the wall.

Important! In construction stores, there is a kind of baseboard with a larger lower part.

• In the process of finishing, it is necessary to leave a small gap between the ceiling and fillets.

Important! Optionally, you can increase the gap, in this case, you can put an LED strip inside, which will give the room even more originality. It does not heat up, respectively - it will not damage the material of the stretch ceiling.

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During the repair process there are no secondary works, especially for the finishing. Any irregularities and flaws can ruin the overall appearance of the repair, because the finishing elements are in plain sight and should be mounted perfectly. Useful recommendations from the article on how to glue the skirting boards in the corners, as well as detailed instructions for the sequence of wall decoration with baguettes, will provide an excellent result from the work done, which will make the interior of your room beautiful and cozy.