Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Multilevel ceilings: features, technologies and materials

Multilevel ceilings can create a beautiful and unusual design that emphasizes the features of each room. But this is not their only purpose. The reason for the use of multiple levels may be irregularities and defects of the base ceiling. Sometimes the differences underlying the ceiling so high that other methods can not hide them. For example, a very bad state is the old ceiling between floors. After removing the old partitions found inappropriate beams and girders. Sometimes within the apartment to hide air conditioning systems, wiring, ducts, freonoprovodov, water pipes, heating. Multilevel ceilings can be a casing for covering technological elements that should be available for periodic maintenance. Multilevel ceilings successfully solve the task of reforming the amount of space. When repairing homes often need at least visually raise the ceiling. Designers are well known trick: in the modern interior feel larger space created by the lowering of the ceilings in some rooms. So, if the level in the hallway ceiling was lowered, and the dining room to keep the base, the dining area visually expand. In this basic level of the ceiling, an additional design techniques (lighting, color, texture), which further reinforce the above-described effect. Fig. 1. Multilevel ceiling in the interior. Another function of the multilevel ceilings - Zoning dwelling. Dwellings new type furnished in the form of open flowing spaces that make up a single plastic structure, which for the convenience of living requires proper organization. In the modern system of zoning are two basic parts of a house or apartment: public and private zones. They can combine the miniband - places to eat, rest and work. In the room where there is practically no walls, functional areas are emphasized finish floor, walls and lighting. And, of course, additional levels of the ceiling. For example, raising his head, we can see the oval, echoing the oval dining table in the dining area. Or a selection as any other bath, bed, winter garden, bar, even the road from one zone to another. Typically, the organization of different levels of ceilings consistent floor finish (the presence of podiums in certain places, the use of different color and texture of materials for floor coverings). Even in low places (with a ceiling 2,5 m), we can competently organize multilevel ceilings, which will add volume and elegance of an apartment or house. Modern materials of construction for multi-level ceilings, virtually no limits imagination of the designer and allow you to create the interiors of different styles (classical, modern, etc.). Design a tiered ceiling can be quite diverse. Form ceiling structure are very different: a classical geometry, bent, fantastic shapes, a combination of curved line and triangle swings levels relative to the base - three, four, five. It could be stucco, curtain systems, the abstract composition. Interiors in the Art Nouveau style of the modern decorated with painted ceilings, recessed deep in the form of an oval or contoured molding. Fig. 2. Multilevel ceilings provide a rich soil for the design of the apartment. And the interiors in a contemporary style, high-tech multi-level ceiling can simulate, for example, the dome of the sky with soaring in the middle of a large and transparent oval bright stars, light bulbs. This design gives the interior ceiling of mystique and a certain mystique. English style involves wood paneling ceiling geometrically complex shapes. Here, the color of the oak panel walls in harmony with the noble colors of wood ceiling. In the ceiling, you can create a kind of window, glazing his part as a sash with scattered light, creating the illusion of solar light. Such a ceiling, regardless of reality, it will seem very high. Multilevel ceiling greatly enhances lighting design space, and usually involves the placement of lamps at different levels, which gives dynamism to the interior. Highlighting tiered ceiling can also be varied - depending on the equipment used and the location of the source of light. Materials and manufacturing technology of multi-level ceilings used multilevel ceilings were often part of public space than private housing. Public and made them popular on the market suspended ceilings and drywall. This flexible technology is relatively cheap and have virtually no restrictions on the configurations. Multilevel ceilings often are made from sheets of drywall, mounted on specially created for each design ceiling metal poles. Support beams attached to concrete ceiling of the apartment. Fig. 3. The use of lighting in multi-level ceilings. Drywall is a sheet finishing material with a core of gypsum plaster reinforced with fiberglass. On both sides of the core pasted durable cardboard. Of the total mass of plasterboard (gypsum) 93% is gypsum, 6% - on the cardboard layer, and 1% - on the carcass. Drywall as a material for finishing, has the following advantages: environmental, good sound absorption, fire resistance (all GCR GOST relate to flammable materials), ductility (can be folded sheets, moisten them, and then after drying with warm air to use for finishing curved surfaces, minimum bending radius when wet, usually 1000 mm), the ability to regulate the humidity in the room, moisture (special types of GCR) strength (reinforced gypsum plaster high-density fiberglass reinforcement and laminated cardboard), resistance to cracking (plasterboard ceilings can be used in seismic areas without restriction, and in buildings with seismicity of 7, 8 and 9 points without additional measures). The main elements of boarding ceiling of plasterboard are: plasterboard, metal frame of holodnoformovannyh bent shapes. Podshivnoy ceiling plasterboard is used primarily in areas with irregularities in the plane of the overlap is not greater than 20 mm. Prefabricated plasterboard ceiling can be installed in residential, public and industrial buildings of all degrees of fire resistance of various storeys and construction schemes being built in all parts of the country in areas with relative humidity up to 70% and a temperature of not lower than +10 ° C in the absence of an aggressive environment. Fig. 4. Using paints even more the beauty of ceilings. The second technological method of creating multi-level ceilings - suspended ceilings, is a thin film or fabric of various colors and textures, stretched on a special frame (fillet) which is fixed on the ceiling or on the perimeter walls. Stretch ceilings can be installed in the premises of any configuration, at any tilt, or even in different planes, making sharp or smooth transitions from one plane to another, creating arches, vaults, and tents. Interesting decorative effect is obtained by using a multi-level ceilings stretch fabrics in different colors and textures. Mounting boarding ceiling of plasterboard installation boarding ceiling of plasterboard to perform better in the summer and in winter time - only when the heating. Mounted ceiling after completion of the sealing joints landfall bulkheads to building structures; work associated with wet processes, except for the final decorative finishes, works on engineering services. Mounting boarding ceiling plasterboard: marking attachment locations; mount the main profiles at 1200 mm using nails or anchoring dowel-by shooting nails at 400 mm, pre-alignment of the plane of the frame by using a set of pads. As an option, not possible to install a continuous profile, and segments of 160 mm with mounting at least two places; installation support profiles in 500 mm through the leveling pads with screws length of 16 mm for connecting metal components, installation of additional segments of the profile in the field joints of gypsum boards, installation of gypsum plasterboard and fastening with self-tapping screws, 25 mm 200 mm; primer surface for decorative trim. Fig. 5. Example of using multi-level ceilings in the attic room. Requirements in the production of works: All the steel elements must be protected from corrosion. Plasterboard should be set vrazbezhku, with displacement of adjacent end joints not less than one-step profile. In the case of increasing requirements for fire safety of plasterboard to be installed in two layers with the displacement of joints first and second layer, reducing the step up to the basic profile of 800-1000 mm and the rotor - up to 300 mm Ceiling items weighing up to 10 kg can be carried out in anywhere in the ceiling without amplification design. When attaching the subject at several points the minimum distance between the points of attachment in centimeters should not exceed a distance corresponding to the force in kilograms, paid for a fixing element. Fixing element up to 20 kg is allowed to perform by an additional unit of the frame profiles and fasteners in accordance with a specific project. Fixing elements heavier than 20 kg should be done by installing a separate zone of attachment of bearing elements.

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