Material for decorating beams or masking them

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Steel beams for hoisting vehicles

The invention of beams, at one time, was a breakthrough and the greatest feat of intelligence, ushering in a real era of construction. On the photo and video materials of the impressive stone portals of Stonehenge, the same age as the Egyptian pyramids, there are stone bars.
The combination of racks and beams made it possible to create a whole system of post-beam structures for the construction of buildings and structures. The word beam is inextricably linked with the beloved by many sopromat, after the completion of which one could already get married.
Single-beam, I-beams, calculations for torsion, bending. The strength of the beams is directly dependent on the length, material, method of fastening, on the area and cross-sectional shape.

Classification, the use of beams

It seems that could be simpler than a beam? A fixed log with ends in the walls or placed on two racks.
Stone beam laid on the walls. These are those primitive beams with which you can work with your own hands.
Another thing is the beams used in construction, which are studied by science along and across. Beams are called elements of building structures that work on bending.
They are classified according to various criteria:

• According to the static scheme. Split ones belong to the most metal-intensive beams, are easy to install and do not respond to uneven settlement of supports.
  Continuous cuts are more labor-intensive and require reliable foundations. Cantilever structures occupy the middle in terms of performance between previous schemes.
  Split beams are used in small spans and light loads. Continuous beams are used in large spans and sufficient loads, if it is possible to get a reliable foundation.
• By sectional shape. Bendable elements most often have an I-section, less often box-shaped and channels.
• According to the composition of the section - solid, made of one profile, composite of several elements of the profile or sheet.
• Beam cells consist of a system of beams supporting flooring. The flooring of the main and auxiliary beams is made of rolling I-beams.
• Steel beams belong to high-quality metal rolling and are actively used in monolithic-frame construction. By and large, they make up the skeleton of the house, carry certain loads and their quality determines the durability of the building.
• They are classified by shape, material, thickness of the shelf and wall, the location of the faces of the shelves, production methods and purposes.
• In construction, the popularity of steel beams is determined by the strength characteristics.

Attention: The construction of wood-metal beams, consisting of a steel core and wooden linings, tightened with a rivet connection, relates to the invention in construction, which allowed to increase the bearing capacity and assembly properties of the beam constituent element.

How to turn a minus of designers into a plus to design

The main creative thought

Small-sized apartments or “Khrushchevs” filled a certain part of the country's housing stock market. At one time, these small typical apartments made it possible to partially solve housing problems.
In the construction of five-story houses without attic spaces no one thought about the comfort of the tenants. Beam ceilings in many and now, protruding elements are in rooms under the ceiling.
The decoration of beams in Khrushchev sticking out of the walls under the ceiling still occupies the thoughts of the owners.But what if you do not hide them, but make them an element of the design of the room, harmoniously blending into the general interior of the room?
There are three options looming so far:

• Align the beam, paint it around the perimeter and install the LED strip. It will somehow look primitive in this already offended room.
• Align the beams, walls with white, gypsum plaster, and glue the ceiling plinth below.
  Immediately buried in the problem of frankly curved walls, heavily littered with respect to the level. Alignment with metal beacons is a long business and too expensive for materials.
• Finishing floor beams can help transform any apartment, so we will consider the third option in detail.
• The beams protruding from the walls are made of concrete, so the installation of a perforated aluminum corner is performed on gypsum plaster.
• At the same time, the beam area is leveled with a spatula by 45 cm.
• Then it is putty with a finishing putty and is cleaned with an abrasive mesh. Stripping is carried out with a special plastic grater, with a stripping net installed on it.
• The joints of the beam with the ceiling are decorated with a ceiling plinth, and at the bottom along the edge of the beam, a molding is glued, painted immediately in one color with a suspended plasterboard ceiling.
• Next comes the wallpaper sticker. To design the beams, you can pick up other colored wallpapers, but in harmony with the main wallpaper. Three kinds of shades can turn out, there will be more brute force and bad taste.

Note: Ideas for the design of floor beams and much more can be seen in building magazines, in photographs.

Drywall and beams

So:

• Plasterboard finishing of the beam can be not only the key, but also the most exciting stage in the repair.
• Especially if you take up the design of massive beams made of wooden beams that can support the roof of the extension.
• There is a place for fantasies to unfold when the beams are exposed very often, through each meter and edge.
• The dead zone, located between the ceiling and the lower edge of the beams, wooden beams, like bare ribs, look completely unattractive.
  The solution is in favor of drywall. The question is, how exactly?
• Get just a flat ceiling by hemming drywall sheets to the bottom edge of the beam. The benefits of such finishes are available.
  All constructive disgrace is hidden, an air gap is formed that maintains a comfortable temperature regime and an optimal level of humidity in the room. Just giving such a space is too wasteful, especially since it is necessary to arrange lighting that will help to beat the structural elements of the ceiling.
• Drying the supporting beam with plasterboard could be done on all sides, and then plasterboard boxes of the same size were installed perpendicularly.
• It turns out a ceiling divided into equal square niches (see.How to finish a niche in the wall and in the partition), in which the lamps are comfortably arranged.

Attention: The result of the work is an incredible amount of slopes, but the height of the room has remained the highest possible along with the original design of the ceiling.

• Drywall and a creative approach to business help turn flaws into virtues, but you should not overload small spaces with beams. Why arrange a ceiling in the attic that can withstand the landing of a small helicopter.
• Correct calculation of the number of beams significantly reduces the cost of their installation, while the quality and load-bearing properties of the structure are preserved. Based on the fact that lumber is sold by volume, useful information on the selection of the beam cross-section for interfloor and attic floors is collected in a single, visual table and presented as an instruction for action.

• It should be understood that there are amendments when changing loads, on the quality of materials, changes in distance when laying beams and possible deviations from the typical size.

Each building has its own distance between the beams

It is imperative to determine before the start of repairs with redevelopment or in general before construction, what result is planned to be obtained. What price for materials can suit the customer, what decorative elements can be used, the structure of wallpaper or other finishing materials, see what will look advantageous in this space.