Today, you can find many varieties of eaves, differing from each other with material, design and fastening method. The most in demand from consumers is simple, tire, round, telescopic and decorative eaves.
For easy curtains, a monosistant cornice is suitable, for heavy, you need to pick up the design is hopefully.
Console selection nuances
Solving how to mount the cornice, you need to follow a specific algorithm of action. First, it is necessary to correctly perform measurements of the width of the room and the window opening in it, otherwise you can buy such a console that cannot be installed in the room due to the inappropriate length or width. It should be borne in mind that for various types of cornices, the distance to the side walls and the ceiling can be very noticeably different.
For light curtains, one-piece or divided into two parts, the monolatory wall round console is best suited over the window, protruding with its edges for the window opening by 10-15 cm. Although, depending on the design solution, the console of this type can be fixed not only The width of the window opening, but also completely on the entire width of the wall, leaving only a small indent from the side walls. To mount the cornice to the wall, 2 or 3 holders are included in the kit (depending on the length of the eaves).
String cornice is the most imperceptible design that creates the effect of soaring in the air curtains.
Mounting curtains on such eaves is performed using charters or clamps connected to rings strung on the eaves. With both ends of the console, removable tips are installed, which, in addition to the decorative function, are performed and the role of the limiter, not allowing the rings to slip from the tube during the movement of the curtains.
For light curtains, a long-used string console type can be used. A distinctive feature of this type and its fastening is the need to make the console as imperceptible to the curtains as it were batted in the air.
There is also an option to fasten the eaves directly to the window frame. So attach, for example, eaves for rolled curtains to the wall. There are such species that have only lateral fastening, that is, to mount the eaves of this species only on opposite side walls.
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But, no matter how long the chosen eaves and no matter how the attachment method is applied, there is one common rule for any attachment: the fixed eaves should not interfere with the window, so its fastening should not be omitted lower than 5 cm from the top plane of the window Opera.
Also suspended to the cornice, the curtains should not be clinging for window handles, window sills and heating batteries under them. In the event that the fixation of the multi-row cornix is performed, measurements should be made from the nearest row to the window.
Installation of Karnis
Tools for fastening the cornice.
Fastening the eaves of any type on the wall must begin with markup and determining the attachment points. The accuracy of this marking largely depends on both the appearance and reliability of the attachment of the eaves to the wall, so it is necessary to approach its implementation very responsibly.
The following tools will be needed to work:
- roulette;
- water level;
- electric drill or perforator;
- marker;
- screwdriver.
First, the roulette needs to be measured the length of the console and mark it on the wall, checking it horizontally using a water level. If you have an assistant, you can proceed and easier: attach a barbell to the wall and put two neat labels at its edges by connecting them with a horizontal line.
Then, consistent with the marked line, the fastening brackets are applied to the wall and tags for holes are applied. These marks must be symmetrical both in relation to each other and relative to the adjacent walls. Then the electrical drill or perforator in the marked places in the wall is made by holes.
Mounting cornice attachment to the wall.
There is a nuance: dowels will be inserted into the hole subsequently, so it is necessary to choose a drill with a diameter equal to the diameter of the dowel. The hole to drill is also needed on a dowel length or 5-10 mm more.
If the length of the rod streaming to the wall is not more than 2.4 m, then 2 brackets are usually used, the installation of an additional bracket bar is desirable for greater length. Fasten the brackets to the wall reliably on the screws. And only securely fixing the brackets, they can be attached to the eaves.
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Features of the attachment of the cornice to the ceiling
For mounting on the ceiling, plastic or metal tires are usually used. This design of the curtain allows you to make cornice almost invisible, so today many choose this particular attachment.
Console to the ceiling can be mounted as using brackets and directly through the holes in the console itself. In the first case, the fastening technique completely repeats the technique of fastening the cornice to the wall. When attaching a console directly to the ceiling there are some features that need to be considered.
Ceiling eaves of this type are usually sold standard sizes, so the cornice length you need must be made independently, scuffing it with a metal with a blank from the workpiece. On the ends of the scaled cornice, you need to wear a plug for holders.
Ceiling cornice mounting scheme.
The first hole is drilled exactly in the middle of the cornice. It is drilled by two drills: first a little more diameter of the hts of the fastener element, and when the depth of the hole is sufficient so that the hat in it is drowned, the drilling continues, but already a smaller diameter drill.
In the same way, the holes along the edges of the ceiling eaves are drilled, with an indent from the end of 3-4 cm, and then, withstanding a certain step, along its entire length. The harder it is planning to use curtains, the less holes should be made.
Next is the case of technology. Applying the cornice to the ceiling at the desired distance from the window, its axis must be adjusted so that it is symmetrical to the window. Then, a label is made through the drilled central hole on the ceiling.
Then the perforator with the drill of the desired diameter for this label in the ceiling is made, the dowel is inserted into it and the ceiling tire is fixed with a self-tapping screw. Such fixation allows, if necessary, to adjust the position of the tire, after which the remaining holes are marked and drilled. After the eaves, it is fixed to the ceiling with a dowel-nail, and this installation is completed.
Small tricks fastening
The reliability of the attachment and the beautiful appearance of the console installed largely depend on the shape and material of the wall finish. If the wall decoration leaves much to be better or above the window, where you need to install a bar, there is a concrete jumper, wooden rails are used as an additional element of the mounting system. In this case, the rails are pre-attached to the wall, and the brackets are attached directly to them.
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If it is not possible to fix the eaves on the wall, they are fixed directly on the ceiling. If the console kit, in addition to the brackets, also includes dowels and screws, then it is necessary to use them for fastening.
Usually in one room, the curtains are desirable to position at the same distance from the walls, which contributes both aesthetic preferences of the owners and the same brackets included in the set of consoles. If there is a need to hang curtains at different distances (for example, to hide the heating pipes), then you need to retreat from the rules and use to attach different brackets on the device. In this case, the visual effect of symmetry can be achieved by hanging behind the curtains decorative curtains.
Scheme of the device of the ceiling cornice for curtains.
Holding brackets should be attached so that the ends of the rods are in them for 3-4 cm. When mounting the curtains, one ring should be taken to the fasteners, then the brackets, in addition to the main task, will reliably hold the eaves To hold the edges of the curtain when firing.
If you plan to install not only curtains, but also lambrene, then when installing the console, it is necessary to leave the space between the installed console and the ceiling for it. If, because of the low ceiling in the room, such space is not enough, then from the idea of fastening the lambrequin it is better to refuse.
If it is planned to use curtains of heavy material, then metal and plastic eaves are better to further strengthen, setting the holders holding their brackets at a distance of 1-1.2 m from each other. If the acquired console kit does not have additional fasteners, then its installation can be performed on homemade brackets or conventional corners.
When using corners, the fastening is even more reliable, but loses in aesthetical plan.
Installation of curtains - the process is creative and fascinating. Well knowing how to mount the cornice to the ceiling or wall, you, having spent a bit of free time, can easily handle this work, having received a lot of pleasure from what, thanks to your efforts, the room has become much more beautiful and cozy.