Finishing a bathroom with modern material
The bathroom is one of the most important rooms in a house or apartment, so it should be comfortable and beautiful. Each family member spends a lot of time here every day, so when repairing a bathtub, the finish is almost of paramount importance.
It should be borne in mind that the repair work in this room is quite complicated, since the area is usually quite small and the communication volume is significant.
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Siding for interior decoration
With various financial possibilities and the implementation of a variety of design ideas, you can get completely different results. A fairly common budget option today is the decoration of the bathroom siding.
Everyone knows that siding is often used for external cladding of buildings, but at the moment there is another area of application - this is the use of this material for interior decoration. Due to the external diversity and its inherent qualities, siding allows you to translate into reality various ideas for the implementation of repairs in the bathroom.
For reference: You can apply panels in two directions - horizontally or vertically and any average person can cope with this task.
Siding panels for interior decoration are quite light and they are presented in a large color scheme, which makes it easy to implement any design ideas.
If you want to make a modern and practical bathroom, this material is perfect. When using siding, you can easily repair a bathroom with your own hands without the involvement of specialists in this field.
Benefits
- Siding is durable, does not crack over time.
- No special care required.
- Does not lose color.
- Moisture resistant.
- It does not rot.
- Not afraid of fungus and insects.
- Differs in the warming properties.
- Installs quickly and easily.
The previously popular tile is being replaced by a special type of siding for interior decoration of rooms with high humidity. Despite the fact that at the moment its range is not as huge as tile, the development of this market segment among manufacturers is still ahead.
Thanks to qualities such as resistance to moisture and ease of maintenance, siding is perfect for wall cladding in the bathroom.
Compared with tile, this material has the following advantages:
- installation of siding is simple and quick;
- the surface is not covered with fungus;
- the siding is equipped with mounting grooves that make installation work simple, there is no need for additional work;
- there is no need to align the walls, which significantly reduces repair time and material costs;
- thanks to the smooth surface, siding is an excellent option for the material used for repairs in the bathroom;
- affordable price.
Samples of finishing the bathrooms with this material can be seen in the photo. Before proceeding directly to the repair, you must accurately determine the design.
After you have reviewed examples of work and selected the necessary solution, you can proceed with the acquisition of materials necessary for repair.To do this, you need to calculate the volume and quantity of materials required for repair based on the area of the room.
What to look for when choosing a siding:
- Manufacturer and country of origin. When purchasing a siding, you need to be sure of its quality and safety.
- Guarantee.
Tip: Remember that, despite the availability of this material, its cost quite often determines the quality.
Preparatory work
First of all, it is necessary to remove furniture and unnecessary things from the bathroom. Then you should remove the finish from the walls, floor and ceiling.
Before starting these works, you can first watch a video on how to work correctly and in what sequence.
Attention!
Do not forget that the bathroom is a room with high humidity, so during the repair it is necessary to take care of reliable waterproofing. To do this, you can use coating waterproofing based on mastic, which must be applied to the floor and to the lower part of the walls with a roller or brush.
If the walls have significant irregularities, you still need to align them to install the battens. With small irregularities, it is better not to touch the walls, as thanks to the flexibility of the siding panels, all errors will be easily smoothed out.
Tip: Despite the fact that when installing siding panels on the crate there is no need to align the walls, it is still worth treating them with a fungicide (or quartz lamp).
After this, it is necessary to install the crate itself, on which the panels will be mounted. Also suitable are wooden beams (preferably pine), which must first be treated with special compounds that prevent rotting of the wood.
The lath is mounted on the ceiling and walls with self-tapping screws, which are screwed into pre-drilled holes in which plastic sleeves are installed. Then the siding itself is installed on it.
It should be noted that instead of wooden bars, you can use a metal frame or plastic panels, since the bathroom is a room with high humidity.
Mounting siding on the crate: instructions
Lath profiles are usually installed perpendicular to the direction of the panels. Installation begins with the installation of the starting corner.
Such accessories must be installed in the corners of the room, as well as in the openings. Please note that there is an external and internal angle.
So:
- The mounting shelf for each subsequent siding panel is installed by inserting the previous part into the mounting groove. The design itself is mounted to the crate with screws.
When mounting the last panel, a wide shelf is installed in the groove of the starting corner. Finishing the junction of the wall and the bath can also be carried out in a similar way with the help of accessories. - A very original idea is to hide the outside non-working space of the bathroom under the panels. Thus, it is possible to achieve harmonization of the space in the bathroom.
- Finishing the joint bath from the wall occurs in a similar way. A starting corner is installed in which the panels are mounted in the same way as described above.
The assembly and installation of panels is so simple that every novice builder will be able to do this on their own.
The decoration around the bathtub looks great with various design decisions. Such a facing option allows you to easily create a single composition with minimal time and at the same time hide the idle space.
Such a solution looks great in small rooms where you need to finish the bathroom, brezhnevka, for example, has a small area, so saving space in it is very important, if not paramount.
Mounting siding on flat surfaces
You should know that in addition to the option of mounting siding on the crate, you can use another option. It is carried out using an adhesive, for example, liquid nails are often used.
For this, it is necessary that the surface to which the siding will be attached be flat.
So:
- First the surface must be cleaned of dust and other contaminants. Then it is necessary to carry out grinding in order to provide better adhesion to the wall surface.
- The surface of the siding, which will be directly glued, must be primed. Further installation is carried out by applying an adhesive composition on the reverse side of the siding surface and tightly pressing it to the wall for several seconds.
Tip. It is best not to remove the protective film from the panel until the installation is complete.
In this article, we examined one of the most affordable and easiest in terms of installation of installation of bathroom decoration. However, do not forget that depending on the financial resources and skills that you have at your disposal, you can also choose other original solutions.
Finishing the bathroom has the most important decision, since the implementation of the repair here is associated not only with significant costs, but also with other difficulties. When making repairs in the bathroom, it is necessary to pay special attention to the quality of the selected materials so as not to redo the repairs in the next few years.
