Panels for PVC walls: how to use in decoration
A few decades ago, the word polyvinyl chloride, evoked in the minds of people pictures of terrible chemical plants that produce extremely harmful products for health. It took industrialists many years to break these stereotypes, and today, we are boldly talking about panels for pvc walls.
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What you need to know about pvc
In this article, we will talk not only about how to properly lay walls from pvc slabs, but also tell you how to choose them correctly. Unfortunately, the glory of harmful, chemical material was assigned to pvc not by chance. The reason for this is unscrupulous manufacturers who are trying in every possible way to reduce the cost of production by eliminating high-quality and safe materials from it and replacing them with harmful but cheap ones.
As a result of such fraud, the plant produces pvc slabs for walls of terrible quality. They emit caustic unpleasant odors, fade under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, and melt even with a slight increase in temperature.
Fighting such unscrupulous industrialists, who focus on short-term profit, despite the fact that their products can be harmful to health, is the task of environmentalists and relevant government agencies, and we, ordinary consumers, need to develop an action plan not to get into such a counterfeit.
The main rule is not to rush into the choice, it is better to spend an extra hour in the store than to suffer from poor materials and poor repair.
There are some tips, using which, you can most likely choose high-quality and reliable pvc panels on the walls:
- Quality certificates. Always ask for supporting documents from the seller. This is your legal right, and you cannot be denied it. The fact is that most unscrupulous producers do not even bother to forge certificates of conformity, considering us to be a swami who do not understand the herd, which will buy it anyway.
- Smell. The main indicators of low quality pvc panels. Do not hesitate to check the panels for smell, the quality of your repair is curled from this. Reliable material can not spread the unpleasant "amber", as it appears only as a result of a violation of production technology.
- Mechanical properties. This implies a factor of maximum fracture, which plastic can withstand. It is only possible to verify this precisely, only under laboratory conditions, but in the store you can just try to slightly bend the panel into an arc until you feel tension. The larger the bending radius, the better the material.
- Fragility. Low-quality plastic easily breaks, and with such material, during installation, you can experience many difficulties. Of course, no one will let you break the panels in the store, but you can try bending the edge of the mounting tab. With high-quality panels, it bends easily, and after it is released, it returns to its original position.
Of course, all these methods are far from laboratory diagnostics, but with their help you can immediately discard the most low-quality materials.
Advice! Try to choose a panel manufacturer with a known name.Large companies value their reputation, and will not release counterfeit products for the sake of a penny difference. Of course, the price of a famous brand will be higher, but on the other hand, this is an additional guarantee of quality.
So, we figured out the selection criteria, but the question remains why this material is so popular. We will try to answer it.
Positive qualities of PVC panels
It:
- Speed of repair. PVC panels for walls can have a variety of sizes, from narrow strips only 7 centimeters wide, to huge plates, more than a meter wide. This allows not only very quickly covering large wall areas, but also makes it possible to calculate material costs with maximum accuracy.
- Resistance to natural influences. For example, you can use pvc panels for the outer wall, neither snow nor bright sun will leave a trace on them. The only thing that can happen is accidental mechanical damage, but no one is safe from this.
- Safety. Using pvc panels for indoor walls, you can not worry about your health. Modern polyvinyl chloride does not contain harmful formaldehydes, and can even be considered as a finishing material for a children's room.
- Easy installation. Laying pvc slabs on the wall is available even to those who have never before done repairs in the house with their own hands. Everything is extremely simple and clear, just look at the photo, or even watch a video in this article, which shows detailed instructions for working with this material.
- Moisture resistant. This factor is especially relevant for those cases when repairs are carried out in rooms with an aggressive environment. PVC panels can not only be wiped with a damp cloth, but also washed abundantly with plenty of water and even with the use of detergents.
- Aesthetic appeal. The walls from the pvc panel can look very attractive, especially if you show imagination and design trick. There are a lot of combination options, and everything is limited only by your personal perception.
As you can see, there are plenty of positive qualities, and this is what makes pvc panels such a popular and popular material. In this article we will not describe in detail how PVC sheet panels for walls are mounted, our theme is interior, but is it possible to use that material in all rooms? we’ll talk about this later.
PVC in the interior of living rooms
Living rooms are those in which households spend most of their free time. Living room, bedroom, children's room - all these are living quarters in which you can use PVC panels.
Here, an ideal combination can be considered as a laminate on the floor of pvc on the walls, the main thing is to show design imagination, the panels are very diverse, and with this help you can create the most intricate decors (see.How to use decorative elements for walls), for example, combine different colors, and divide the wall in half, and sew on the panels only the lower part.
In addition to panels, you can use pvc tiles on the walls, they have a square or rectangular shape, and this is even greater scope for imagination. Unlike panels, tiles are not assembled using the groove-comb technology, but are glued to the base with special glue.
It is important to approach the preparation of the wall correctly, it should be perfectly even and without flaws. Simply put, before covering pvc walls, they need to be leveled and plastered. The process is of course complicated and time-consuming, but take a word, it's worth it.
Children
The main advantage of using PVC panels in the nursery is the fact that all children are small artists, and the walls are often the most attractive canvas for their work.
Now you don’t have to worry about it, with pvc you can easily wipe off both a simple pencil and a permanent marker. The main thing is to use special pvc panels for walls inside the room in this room, their difference is that they can be mounted without using the crate directly on the walls, and this adds strength and reliability to them.
Bedroom
That's where exactly there are no restrictions on decoration. It all depends on the owners of the room and their preferences. Experiment, combine, find new solutions. A variety of pvc panels allows you to do all this.
PVC in non-residential premises
The use of pvc plates, sheets and panels in non-residential premises is most relevant. As a rule, there are no increased requirements for aesthetic appeal, and quality characteristics, such as resistance to various loads, ease of maintenance and durability, come first.
At the beginning of our article, we already listed all the positive aspects of pvc-based materials, and as you remember, they meet all these requirements. In a standard house or apartment, non-residential premises, as a rule, are larger than residential ones, and repairs in them are traditionally done more often, since increased loads on the surface quickly wear out finishing materials.
There are no such problems with pvc, it will easily endure regular cleanings, and even in the event of any mechanical damage, you will only have to replace one or more segments of the finish, while all repairs will remain completely intact.
A bathroom
Pvc bathroom wall - This is the most successful solution of all possible. In this room the temperature is constantly changing, and of course there is humidity. Fighting these factors is stupid, and you have to adjust, and the walls and ceiling of pvc help in this.
In order to qualitatively complete the wall decoration in a toilet from pvc or a bathroom, you need to remember a few simple rules:
- Do not use wooden bars for the manufacture of crates. With constant humidity, the tree will quickly begin to swell and may violate the integrity of the finish. The best for these purposes is a metal galvanized profile, it does not rust and will serve faithfully for many years.
- If for any reason, the use of a wooden beam for the construction of the crate is inevitable, be sure to treat it with special impregnations, which, although I can not completely save it, but at least extend the service life.
- Leave small gaps in the corners between the panels. This is necessary to compensate for thermal expansion, which, although to a small extent, is present in all materials based on plastic and pvc.
- Do not use pvc corners on walls mounted on glue. They often come off from moisture and are deformed. It is better to take the corners with a groove into which the panels are inserted.
Hallway
Walls with pvc panels in the corridor can be found quite often. There are no strong temperature fluctuations in this room, and humidity does not exceed the maximum norm, but finishing materials quickly become unusable.
The reason for this is often touching the walls with your hands, and touching your clothes. This is especially true of apartments in the old fund, where the hallways are so small that it’s hard for even one person to turn around.
Plastic in this situation is almost an ideal solution. It easily withstands touch, and with proper installation on such walls, you can even lean with all your weight. Of course, dirt will still appear on it, but unlike other materials, it is very easy to remove them from plastic.
There is no need to be afraid of the walls of the PVC entrance hall, just dilute the powder or detergent in the water and rinse all the panels thoroughly. The only difficulty can arise in a small hallway, since it is desirable to fix pvc to the crate, and this will steal the already scarce centimeters of the area.
In this situation, it is better to sacrifice the rules, and install the panels directly on the walls, but of course, carefully prepare them before that.
Advice! If the panels are mounted without crate, be sure to treat the walls with a thick layer of deep penetration impregnation. The fact is that plastic has low vapor permeability, which means that the walls will accumulate condensate, which simply has nowhere to evaporate. Impregnation will protect the walls from mold and neutralize the formation of condensation and dampness.
Kitchen
Well, here we come to the most complex and aggressive room in the house, according to the vast majority of experts. In addition to constant changes in temperature and high humidity with steam, the kitchen has strong odors.
By no means do we want to say that the smells of food are unpleasant for perception, but when they accumulate, they turn into something supernatural, and removing them will not be so simple.
There are no such difficulties with plastic, it is inherently incapable of absorbing odors, which means that you can cook as much as you like, even without an extract (seeDecorating the kitchen with plastic panels or a new boom).
And in conclusion
Of course, this is not all that can be said about pvc and finishing materials from it, but such a quantity of information simply cannot fit into the narrow framework of one article.
In any case, this short review makes it clear how convenient and practical this material is. having trimmed the wall with panels, you can forget about subsequent repairs for many years, and the relatively low cost will please even the worst wallet.
