When people make repairs or only plan to do it, most often turn to the services of construction firms or construction brigades. On the announcement, by acquaintance, are looking for on the Internet and in newspapers. Even if the service is ordered men, it is quite normal. But sometimes even the most elementary work, as it seems initially, it turns out not so simple.
Eaves for curtains in the interior performs an important role, because it is precisely from such parts a complete, one-piece image of the premises.
How does the repair of any room ends? Installation of furniture and hanging curtains. Therefore, the question is how to hang cornice correctly, one of the most frequently asked. If you figure it out, you can install the eaves yourself very simple.
If you bought an expensive eaves, you should not use those fasteners that come in the kit. It is better to use your own.
What can required?
Scheme of fastening the ceiling eaves to the stretch ceiling.
How to wear cornice?
Very simple. It is only necessary to observe only the following rules:
- The cornice must be longer than the window opening somewhere on 35-55 cm.
- As mentioned earlier, the windows should open freely, and they should not prevent the eaves. With this purpose, it is left to 5 cm between the window opening and eaves, as well as at least 8-10 cm should be from the wall to the curtains (or curtains).
- Under the windows most often are available batteries. Leave the distance from the battery to the curtain minimum 6-7 cm.
Correspondures are made from a different material, and only two types are separated by the method of fastening: mounting to the ceiling and to the wall. There are no significant differences in the fastening technology. The difference is only in the place of attachment. In order to hang cornice, follow these steps:
Scheme of mounting wall cornice.
With the help of a simple pencil, mark the places where the bracket will be attached. All brackets are attached so that the same distance from the center of the window to them. If the cornice is long (more than 240 cm), an additional one more bracket is installed in the center of the window.
- Did you buy a ceiling cornice? Then be sure to check the same distance to the wall from the brackets everywhere. Installing the brackets for this type of carnis is needed strictly horizontally.
- Find out what your walls are built. If they are built of bricks, do not use conventional plastic dowels. Take better consistent cork screws from pine size 4 * 50 mm. Before screwing down such screws, you need to make holes.
- If you hang only lightweight materials as curtains, it will be preferable to buy a string version of the eaves. The design of this cornice consists of stretched strings between the brackets. But this cornice has a small disadvantage: after the time the string has expired, they have a stretch property.
- If your curtains are heavy material, then in this case the eaves of the strings are clearly not suitable, there is a plastic cornice, which is attached to the ceiling. However, pay attention to the material. If the plastic is soft, then such eaves clearly will not power the load. Then, in order to maximize the eaves, it will be necessary to insert steel plates into the grooves under each hole in the back wall of the installed eaves. In this case, steel plates must be 40 * 18 mm.
For other cases, ordinary screws and dowels will be required. They can go complete with a cornice, and you can buy yourself. The brackets are initially installed, and then the cornice is installed on them. Next, the cornice must be aligned on the window to the window.
Practical recommendations
Remember, if your ceiling is not perfectly smooth, you should not mount the cornice too close. It is necessary to take into account the fact that if the cornice is too close to the ceiling, the unevenness of the ceiling will be noticeable. Sometimes in order to achieve evenness, the brackets must be fixed at different distances from the wall. Set the gaskets between the brackets and the wall, if the pipe fit tightly to the eaves.
Next you need to place a place under the brackets and spend a straight line. So that the line is as smooth as possible, use the construction level.
Then the holes are drilled, and dowels are inserted into them. After that, the brackets are fixed with self-draws.
Check the fortress attachment by attaching a small force to it.
After that, the rod is taken and the rings with tips are put on and fixed in this position. However, it is worth leaving one ring between tips and brackets. It is advisable to mount the hooks right away to the fabric, and then put on the rings all together.
If you are fixing the cornice to the ceiling, initially measure the distance from the wall and to the bracket. From the wall to all brackets, it should be the same everywhere. But do not forget about the curtains: they should not lie on the windowsill.
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