The subtleties of finishing the toilet with plastic panels

The toilet room, tiled, looks very nice and respectable. But in order to beautifully lay it out, you need to have certain skills in working with such material, and the tile itself will cost a lot of money. To perform a quality repair in the toilet without extra costs and on their own can, if instead of tile to apply PVC panels.

To finish the toilet with plastic panels, you do not need to have special building skills and physical strength. This material has a whole range of other qualities that provide ease of handling it both during the installation process and during the operation of finishing it.

Although without the drawbacks of plastic panels can not do.

• This is lightweight material that is simply cut and mounted. It can be used for both wall and ceiling decoration. PVC panels will hide behind themselves pipes and other communications that are present in the toilet and often do not look attractive at all, like the "native" uneven walls. But it must be borne in mind that when installing on each side, such a coating “eats” about five centimeters of room space.
• It is convenient to deal with the finishing of the premises with this material alone, especially since the two builders turn around in the close space of the toilet room is very difficult.
• If the panels are installed correctly, they will last a very long time (up to twenty-five years), without requiring special care for them. They are resistant to chemicals, spoil the coating difficult. It is enough to regularly wipe the PVC walls with a damp cloth so that the toilet does not lose its well-groomed appearance.
• The panels are resistant to moisture and temperature extremes.
• Making a choice in favor of decorating the toilet with such panels, you need to take into account that this is a material that melts under the influence of fire, emit acrid smoke.
• If you hit the plastic wall hard, the panel may break through.

To create a specific design in the toilet, you can choose one or another type of PVC panels.

It can be:

• sheet plastic panels;
• wall with a decorative frieze;
• with photo printing;
• with a pattern made by a laser method;
• with thermal printing.

Use of panels with a photo printing opens unlimited open spaces for design. Going to the toilet, decorated with such material, you can find yourself in the atmosphere of a paradise island, among waterfalls, mountains, and in any setting that will contribute to peaceful solitude. To create a complete picture, not only the walls, but also the floor and the ceiling must be executed in a single theme and color scheme. This rule works equally well as when making a separate toilet, and a combined bathroom.

Having made a choice in favor of plastic panels, you need to take into account that there is no uniform standard for the forms of their release. On sale you can find panels with a width of ten to thirty centimeters. Their length can be from two to six meters. The thickness is also different - from eight to twelve millimeters. If the choice is made in favor of sheet panels, then it should be taken into account that their width is eighty centimeters and reaches two meters. Length from 105 to 405 centimeters.

Before you go to the installation of the panels themselves, you will have to make measurements of the room and buy everything you need for repair: not only panels, but also profiles for the design of exterior and interior corners, areas where the plastic abuts the ceiling and the floor, for the cabinet and door your plan. It will take material to create crates for future panels.You can choose wooden or metal slats. It should be borne in mind that their parameters will determine how much the area of ​​the toilet will decrease after carrying out all the work. The number of rails depends on the height and width of the walls, as well as the distance between the elements of the batten. If the riser, pipes and the ceiling frame are hidden under the PVC panels, you need to set the material consumption for this when calculating its total quantity.

And you may also need dowels and screws. If they are not in the farm, you need to resolve the issue with their presence in advance. The plastic cladding technology also allows for the possibility of sticking panels directly onto walls if they are completely flat. With this approach to the finish will need "liquid nails." If the crate is made of plastic for the plastic, you need to purchase a tool for processing the wooden structure from rotting. Using a primer for walls and ceilings will not allow mold to appear under the panels. Insects under it, too, will not divorce.

To competently repair the toilet, you need to carefully prepare its walls for future decorative decoration. Remove from them wallpaper and paint.To work you will need a metal spatula. Wallpapers that do not lag behind the wall can be soaked by rolling on it with a wet roller several times. Do not be lazy to remove the old wallpaper covering to the end, so that you don’t have to dismantle the plastic panels and carry out repairs again if a fungus starts there.

As for the paint, it is enough to remove only that which is already peeling off from the wall. The required number of wooden frame elements is cut, they are treated with an antiseptic, including cutting sites. Then they should be allowed to dry. In an apartment building for this balcony. You can also make the workpiece on the staircase. While the drying process is not completed, you can perform the processing of walls and ceilings in the toilet itself.

Soil is applied with a roller with a long nap. A wide brush will do for business. On inconvenient sites - narrow. It makes sense to apply a couple of layers of soil, especially since it dries quickly. If you decide to repair the toilet in full - with the replacement of the toilet - it is better to remove the old one before you start to perform the batten. If the pipes and the old wiring require replacement, this issue should also be taken care of a little earlier than it comes to the external design of the room.

In order to make the frame yourself for panel cladding, you need to decide in advance how PVC panels will be placed relative to the wall - vertically or horizontally. When placing the panels vertically, the room will appear higher and the horizontal position will visually expand it. In this case, the “vertical version” implies horizontal placement of crates bars and vice versa. When installing rails need to focus on the readings of the construction level. For fixing the bars to the walls using screws or dowels. Using screws, you need to drill holes in the walls and insert plastic chopikas into them.

By the time of work, the bars should dry well, otherwise they will lead later, which can ruin the whole thing. They are mounted at a distance of about half a meter from each other. In places where cabinets and shelves will be placed, the elements of the lathing should be placed “more often” so that the mount is more reliable. The most common option for finishing the toilet is a vertical method of mounting panels. To make a frame for such a finish, you need to first install its side racks.To do this, slats with screws are fixed in the corners of the room. Vertical strips at the same time should not come into contact with the surface of the floor and ceiling.

Then crate is performed. The first bar is fixed at a distance of two centimeters from the floor. Created rack line around the perimeter of the room. The same is mounted under the ceiling. To crate was uniform, after installing the upper and lower strip of the rails, measure the distance between them with a tape measure and divide in half. In the middle reinforce another bar. Each of the resulting sections is also divided into two and again strengthen the bars at a measured distance. This continues until the distance between the elements of the batten is reduced to half a meter.

To build a box for communications under the trim panels, use the same materials as for creating a frame on the walls. The box is attached to the floor and walls. Connect the bars can be using screws. In the process of work, it is necessary to provide places for technological openings that will provide access to hidden communications when solving everyday issues. As for the frame itself, not only wooden but also metal guides can be used for its device.

To do your own hands to trim the walls of the room with PVC panels, you have to first install racks on which decorative strips will be held. When the installation of the frame is completed, you can proceed to the next step, involving the installation of racks that need to be nailed to the crate. Reiki must be cut at an angle of forty-five degrees. Attached to the crate can be nails or a special stapler at a distance of thirty centimeters from each other.

Plastic panels have grooves and ridges, connecting them to each other, you can step by step finish the walls, giving them elegance. Decorative plastic elements in the corners and around the doorway will help to close and hide the joints of panels. It is better not to neglect the installation of such components of the design, otherwise the repair will look unfinished.

After installing the panels along the walls, you need to finish with a decorative layer a box around a vertical pipe that runs in the toilet.To hide communications from the eyes, the panels will need to be cut along the length, and in order to close the inconvenient place it is aesthetic, in the end - to install decorative corners where it is needed. To sew the ceiling of the bathroom panels, you should act the same way as in the case of the walls. But in the process of work it is necessary to make holes for future fixtures and bring the electric wire out.

In such an important place for the apartment as a toilet, it is not enough to sheathe the walls gently and bypass all the projections with decorative panels, giving the room an elegant and well-groomed look. Hooks, niches and shelves should be placed in the places provided for in advance so that the toilet is comfortable to use. Places on which all this will be attached, it is better to designate even in the course of plating - then you will not have to guess where the crates are placed.

Options for using panels to create hidden niches and shelves can be very different. A person who can dispose of furniture fittings, it is not difficult to quietly close up the removable panel that should not be visible. It is possible, for example, to provide in a decorative casing a window under which the water meter is located, with the ability to close it with a plastic door and easy to open only when it is required.

Repair class "economy" with the decoration of the toilet plastic is well applied in the "Khrushchev". So the easiest way to hide from the views of the old unattractive riser, to make the interior of a small room quite modern and comfortable thanks to the competent choice of panels: with a picture or monophonic. For example, the red walls in the bathroom some people may seem too extravagant. A green or blue tone in a company with a pattern, for example, in a nautical style will surely make the decoration comfortable and relaxing.

When repairing a combined bathroom, especially in the old panel house, you need to carefully consider the issue of ventilation, ensuring free air flow between the casing and the wall, as well as the casing and the ceiling. The ventilation grille also needs to be assembled from plastic, providing it with a decent design. When the device floor in the toilet, you can make a cement screed and lay the floor of the tile. It is important that it does not contradict the overall color scheme of the updated interior.Even if you want to meet the minimum amount of expenses during repairs, you should carefully consider the choice of the decorative coating itself.

The risk of running into poor quality goods today is very high.

• For finishing the bathroom is better to use panels with additives that increase their flexibility. Material without appropriate additives will be too brittle. Determining how high-quality panel fell into your hands is easy. Good quality plastic can be bent into a ring.
• Click on the edge of the product with two fingers. Stiffeners located inside a high-quality panel can not be deformed, and there are no dents on the outside.
• The dock of the lock on the edge should return to its original position when released after being bent. In a poor-quality product, this plastic strip may break.
• Through the top layer of the panel should not shine its "insides".
• When choosing a material, use your sense of smell. If the panels are made of low-quality components, they will emit a chemical scent that will only become stronger in the closed space of the bathroom. This is not only unpleasant, but also unhealthy.

• In PVC panels of decent quality in the composition should be additives that do not allow the material to ignite. To verify this, request a certificate for the products from a specialist in the sales area. If the documents for the goods you do not provide, it is better to go to another store.
• You should not stop your choice on the panels of large width. When it comes to repairs in such a small room as the toilet, it is unprofitable, since during installation there are too many pieces that you just have to throw out.
• Do not be lazy to inspect each panel purchased. It is not uncommon for sellers to enclose defective items in a pack of goods. Exchanging them after buying a quality product can cost you big nerves. We'll have to prove that the panels were not damaged during transportation from the store to the house.

A variety of colors of plastic panels opens up great opportunities forin order to create the most interesting design ideas for creating the bathroom interior in accordance with the taste preferences of apartment owners.

Someone thinks that the design of the toilet room’s walls is stone-like, someone prefers certain wood drawings, and some abstract patterns that create a feeling of lightness and lightness, or floral patterns present on the panels.

• The combination of beige walls with an unusual pattern and the floor, decorated in red “dress”, will make the toilet room visually very warm. In the eyes of people who especially appreciate the warmth, such a design will give the bathroom an additional appeal. Like the "neighborhood" of animals and trees on the walls.
• Connoisseurs of spring and summer will feel comfortable surrounded by walls with a pattern of branches with leaves. Even on a gloomy winter day, this situation will bring back spring joy. The light green background helps to tune in to peace and never gets bored.
• The choice of screaming colors in the design of the toilet is a rather rare phenomenon, but there is no doubt that such a design can make an indelible impression on all visitors to a secluded room.No one will disregard the combination of red and black in the room "with a special purpose." Elements in the form of red prints on black walls will only enhance the effect, as will the dull ceiling lighting, echoing the design of the floor with white tiles.

• The decoration of the walls of the toilet under the stone would already look quite decent. However, in combination with a rich dark gray pattern at the bottom of the panels, this room looks particularly presentable and rich.
• The use of black tones in the decoration of the bathroom only at first glance seems a risky move. The combination of black walls with white fixtures creates a stylish contrast, making the interior impressive and modern. Energetic and strong-willed people will clearly appreciate this neighborhood.

• Gray panels for large tiles give the room a detached neutrality and decent simplicity. Horizontally located narrow and light panels behind the toilet visually expand the close space. Psychologically, it no longer presses on the person who is in it.
• Green plastic panels of a soft shade with a thin, graceful line of drawing around the perimeter of the toilet room look modest, but with dignity.Harmonious design in the room is created without the original techniques, nevertheless makes a great impression.

• If on some walls of the bathroom to use panels with vertical stripes in blue and pink colors, you can achieve a coziness effect, since such a pattern resembles the texture of the fabric. In this environment, you can feel like “under a flannel shirt”, or as “under a warm blanket.” If the same pattern is present on the floor, the effect will be even stronger.
• In the pale-yellow or beige shades of the panels, the space of the toilet looks calm and at the same time lively, especially with the addition of a small floral pattern. Such colors and ornaments are chosen by balanced people who look at the world seriously and practically. If the walls decorated with beige panels are stained, it will be noticeable, but it will not cut the eyes. In addition, this surface is easily washed.

On how to make the installation of plastic panedley in the toilet - in the next video.