Ceiling curtain: rules for its installation

Ceiling curtain - one important and necessarysubjects in each house. First, with its help you can visually increase the height of the room. Secondly, it perfectly conceals all the irregularities available in the corners of the room. Similar functions are performed by the ceiling cornice. The installation of both these elements is carried out according to the same scheme.

Types of eaves:

1) Round. In fact, these are typical crossbeams that perform a decorative function. Their diameter varies from 15 to 40 mm. Installed on the ceiling and walls.

2) Cornices of a telescopic type. Most often made of plastic, metal and wood. They have a round shape and a relatively small diameter.

3) Bus. Are representations of metal or plastic. They are equipped with special grooves designed to fix the curtains. Similar products are divided into single and multi-row. Thus tire cornices are suitable for installation not only on the ceiling, but also on the walls.

If you have an installed hinged apartment(gypsum plasterboard) or stretch ceiling, then be sure to check the structure for the presence of mortgages for securing the curtain. If they are not present, then the installation of this element is impossible.

For installation work you will need:

• Screwdrivers.
• Hand hacksaw.
• Punch.
• Building level.
• Ruler and a simple pencil.
• Screws and screws.
• Yardstick.

The ceiling is suitable for installation onwooden, concrete and glossy surface. To begin with, you must dock several cornices, fitting them to the size of the room. The ceiling curtain is cut by a bulgarian or a hacksaw, equipped with small teeth.

Next, we make markings and make holes in theThe grooves along which the hooks will walk. If you have a tension or a plasterboard ceiling in your room, then the marking of the holes should be made in accordance with the location of the embedded elements. In other cases, the first hole is made in the center of the curtain, and the others are distributed around the edges. The minimum distance between them is 400 mm.

If the ceiling curtain provides severalstripes, on which the curtains will subsequently be fixed, the holes must be made in all rows. A drill with a diameter of 5 mm is used for this purpose.

If you are dealing with a tension, wooden orplasterboard ceiling, then we can say that the preparatory stage is completed. Now we proceed to fix curtains to the ceiling with the help of screws. If the ceiling is concrete, then before mounting the cornice, it is necessary to make holes for plugs of plugs. They will then be screwed with screws. So, we apply the curtain to the ceiling, we expose it to the distance we need and make appropriate markings. After that, we take a punch with a drill with a diameter of 6 mm and make holes about 40 mm deep. We drive into them pre-prepared plastic plugs. Then fix the curtains on the ceiling. Look at it from the side, everything is straight. If something is wrong, we correct it right away.

Now you know how to install the ceiling curtain. We hope that the information in this article will be useful to you.