Most often, the repair in the apartment begins with the ceiling. More recently, the ceilings were first eroded, then putty, and then either the wallpaper was glued on them, or whitewashed. Nowadays, wallpaper and whitewashing are used much less often, and they were replaced by stretch or hinged ceilings.
For some reason, people during the repair pay much less attention to the ceilings than to walls or floor. Of course, the ceiling decoration is the most difficult stage of repair work in the room. This is due to the fact that hands tire very quickly. But if you devote a lot of time and the zeal of the decoration of your ceiling, then the result will surprise not only you, but also your guests.
Despite the wide variety of finishing materials for the ceiling, plastered ceilings are surrounded by the most popular and cheap type of finish. In a few days of work, your ceiling can become perfectly smooth and white and all this is for a small price. With a great desire for whitewashed ceilings, you can install modular or spotlights. Among other things, it is easier to update whitewashing on an even ceiling when the latter will get old. You can also change the color of your ceiling at any time for literally half a working day and not a big price.
Now a little about the tools. You will need a spatula to seal irregularities and cracks. The spatula is a thin metal plate with a handle. The length of the edge of such a spatula varies in the aisles of 4 cm. up to 13 cm. Putty – a process requiring some skills. First of all, you need to learn how to dial the right amount of putty on a spatula. It is worth dialing more on the spatula than necessary and an influx form on the surface of the ceiling, so most experienced masters take an accurately dead amount of putty on the spatula blades.
The first layer of putty is applied to very even layers, and the upper layer that tunes must be removed with repeated motion. When applying, the thickness of the putty layer depends on the tilt of the tool relative to the wall, if the angle is small, then the layer turns out to be very thin.
Smoothing the treated surface of the ceiling is carried out by the back of the spatula. The tool itself is applied with a shortened side to the ceiling at an angle of about 10 degrees, after which the processed surface is smoothed with slow movements. If you cook the ceiling not for whitewashing, but for painting, then in this case putty is used using glue. In this case, the amount of special glue in the mixed mixture should not be more than one twentieth of the total number. It is best if there are two types of spatula in your arsenal for application, the other for alignment.
You can apply putty on the wall using a pulverizer gun. Thanks to him, the process is not so laborious. However, in the presence of such a tool, the spatula is still required.
To get a more smooth surface, putty is laid in two layers. After laying the first layer, you need to let it dry, then apply a primer on it, and then the second layer of putty. In general, all subsequent layers of putty must be laid through layers of primer.
When the liquid composition of the putty is used, it is applied using the brush, after which the same brush is aligned. After the putty dried its surface, you need to fumble. This is usually done using a wooden bar wrapped in a skin.
In order to achieve an ideal surface layer, you need to go through a processed wall first with a coarse -grained skin, and after a skin with a less rough surface. After the end of these works, you should not rush and applies paint to the wall. First you need to wait for about a day. Otherwise, the still not completely dried putty will take moisture from the paint and the color of your wall does not turn out at all that you wanted.
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For staining ceilings, rollers are most often used. The use of the roller place will increase the working time several times. You can learn to handle the roller correctly much faster than with a brush. With the help of a molar roller with a long handle, it is very easy to achieve a uniform coating on the most uneven surfaces. According to the standards, rollers are released from 10 to 30 centimeters. Rollers with a rink width of 10 centimeters are needed for painting edges and angles. For painting the main area, you need to use rollers with a width of 25-30 centimeters.
A roller can not only be painted, but also primed the surface. If you are going to paint the surface in light color, then it is advisable to use the primer tinted in the same color as the paint.
With the help of a roller from high -quality fur, you can paint more than 3 square kilometers, so we advise you to buy you a good roller and use it in further finishing work at your house. Hard to reach the roller will have to be painted with a brush.
A woolen fabric is usually used as a material for covering a roller. Also on the market there are rollers with a sponge of polymeric materials, with an artificial or natural coating. Such options hold the paint better, which means they accelerate the process of work. The rollers with a short pile does not hold the paint poorly, and therefore the roller often needs to be wetted in the paint. From this, the paint often falls on the arms and shoulders.