The final stage of separating the premises is the installation of plinths. This is the last touch that the interior comes to the interior. Increasingly, instead of the usual wooden planks, a plastic floor plinth is used. It has a low cost, easy to install and care.
Advantages and disadvantages
Plastic floor plinth is a practical solution that allows you to solve two tasks at the same time - to give a complete view of the room and hide, if necessary, there are more than enough wires in our dwellings.
Plastic floor plinth - practical solution
PVC Plinth for Paul has the following advantages:
- Low weight.
- Simple installation, preliminary or subsequent preparation is required.
- Long service life, resistance to ultraviolet, household chemicals.
- Simple care, the absence of the need to regularly update the decorative coating.
- Harmfulness.
Install plastic floor plinth - practical solution. Gradually, they replace traditional wooden planks, as in many indicators they are superior. Shortcomings little. The first - plastic is an unnatural material. Second-building plastics and the possibility of selection of harmful substances.
Using an outdoor PVC plinth with a cable channel can be covered wireless wires / cables
With the unforturability, nothing will arise, but such a "unnatural" around is already so much that it will not play a part detail. In addition, good plastic is chemically neutral, no harmful substances allocate in normal condition.
There are different flammability in plastics - there are plastics that do not burn and do not spread combustion, there is a reduced separation of smoke, in which harmful substances are still minimized. So, if you wish, you can find a non-combustible plastic floor plinth.
Types of plastic plinths
Plastic floor plinth can be the following varieties:- ordinary;
- flexible;
- with cable channel;
- with flexible (rubberized) edge;
- Under painting.
Let's stay in more detail on each variety.
Flexible plinth PVC
If necessary, arrange columns, curvilinear walls, roundings, the problem occurs - the usual hard strips are to use problematic - you have to cut into small segments, to dock with the help of connecting elements. Time leaves much, it turns out expensive for money, while the kind is not perfect, since the broken line is still obtained, and not a smooth curve.
This is designed by rounded walls with standard plinth and plastics
Here in such cases it is better to use flexible plinth. The concept of "flexible" relative. In the usual state, it is hard, and well bends only when the temperature is raised. Before mounting on curvilinear surfaces, it is heated by a construction hairdryer to 60-70 ° C, bend into that form that is required and secured.
Flexible plastic floor plinth can be bent with a slight radius
Easy to make a column
The width is small, color can be selected
After cooling, it will acquire the initial rigidity. It can easily be issued a column, for example, not to mention a smooth curve.
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With a mild edge
Plastic floor plinth is the most elastic of similar products. If necessary, it can be attracted in such a way that it will see even to an uneven wall. But it is possible to achieve a full fit to the uneven wall without the slightest slits if the top edge is made elastic - rubber.
The rubberized edge makes it possible to avoid even the slightest slots.
The elastic edge has the same coloring, although it is made of plastic material. Due to high elasticity, he envelopes even the slightest irregularities, not leaving gaps and gaps.
With cable channel
In modern home, more and more equipment and wires going to her. One of the most comfortable and cheap ways to secretly hold cables around the apartment or house - install plastic floor plinth with cable channel.
Cable Channel is a specially molded recess / cavity along the entire length of the plinth. This recess is placed by several wires - television, telephone, computer cables. There are two types of:
- With a molded deepening in the body of the plinth itself and a removable decorative plank. First, the plinth is mounted, then the cables are stacked into the recess, after the plank is closed.
This plastic floor plinth with molded recess under the cable laying
- Of the two parts - plastic / metal mounting plank, which is a cable-channel and a decorative plastic lining. The slave is molded cavities for laying a cable. It is mounted on the wall, the cable is stacked in it, after which the plastic part is actually a plinth - snaps on this bar.
This plinth with cable channels consists of two parts.
The amount of cable laid depends on the size of the cavities in them. There are more space in second-type models - with separately mounted cable channel. But the possibility of the first type can be expanded - putting the wires in the cavity above and below the molded channel. The complexity is that access to them will be difficult - they are under the plinth. To get to them, you will have to dismantle it. Therefore, it is desirable to lay wires that rarely require maintenance - television, Internet, etc.
Under painting
There is a plastic floor plinth of foamed PVC. Due to the use of porous material, the surface can be painted. A good option if you need a non-standard color solution. After all, the set of colors is still limited, and so you can choose the required shade.
Non-standard solution - plastic floor plinth of foamed PVC under painting
Dimensions
Plastics is one of the most plastic materials that makes it possible to make products of any shape and sizes. Therefore, the plastic floor plinth can be of any section and sizes, but there are certain limitations that are associated with the practical side. Generally produce plastic plinths with such parameters:
- height 50-120 mm;
- thickness 10-26 mm;
- Length 2000-25000 mm.
Some types of plastic floor plinths with dimensions
These are the most common sizes, but there are single options. For example, there are wider in the lower part - about 50 mm. They are needed if the gap between the wall and the floor is somewhat more than the technology requires.
Doborny elements
When installing plastic floor plinth, it will be necessary not only for the plinth themselves, but also additional (good) items to them. It:
- External and inner corner.
- Connector - for the splicing of two pieces of plinth.
- Plugs - for designing sections in the place of adjustment to the doors.
- Brackets - for laying cables in corners.
Types of fair elements for PVC floor plinths
The number of challenges is considered for each individual case. We will have to consider how many external and internal angles in the design room. The plugs are considered also easy - two pieces are required for each doorway. Easily more complicated with the determination of the number of connectors, but they can be taken with a margin.
Methods of installation
There are two ways to install plastic plinths:
- Screws or dowel-nails through the surface of the plinth.
- With the help of special clips.
There is such a way of fastening
The second option is suitable only if the walls are perfectly smooth. On the walls with curvature it is better to use the usual method of fastening - self-tapping or dowels plastic floor plinth can be attracted close to the wall so that it will not lag behind the wall. It is better to use models with a rubberized edge.
Fastening with clip
This method of fastening is implemented using the fixators of two species - the clips in the form of individual plates and a long plate of the same length as the plastic plinth. The difference is that the long retainer is used as a cable channel, that is, in this case, the cables / wires can be covered in the plastic plinth.
The principle of fastening of fixators of any type of the same:
- Mount to the wall clips.
- The plastic part is simply snapped onto them.
Fastening plastic plinths with clip
It is worth saying again: this method is only for perfectly smooth walls, otherwise the result will be unsatisfactory. The order of work is simple:
- On the wall, at the height, where the clip will be located, the mark is applied.
- By the mark, beat off the horizontal direct (it is convenient to use a laser level).
- Focusing on the line, attach clips or bar with cable channel.
- Stay cables. They can be additionally copped with plastic screed or bilateral scotch.
- Installed facial plinth panel.
PVC plinth with separate cable channel is mounted almost also
When installing, it is important to have clips on the same level. Only in that case, it will be possible to secure the decorative bar without problems. The permissible run - less than a millimeter, because we try before fixing, carefully impose the position of the fastening plate or clips. One option is to make a pattern. To do this, cut off a piece of about 15 cm long, make a hole in it and use as a measure, applying in the right places.
Installation through the plinth, with the help of dowels / screws
This method is suitable for not very smooth walls. The plinth make a hole, through it, with the help of a self-built or dowel, attracted to the wall.
It seems that everything is simple, but only until you start doing yourself. And then problems arise: in what order it is better to drill, at what distance to install fasteners from each other, how to make it not too spoile the appearance.
There are several ways, but the most correct algorithm for the installation of plastic floor plinth is:
- Put on the wall bar, press, align. If there is an assistant, it keeps in a fixed state. If you work one, secure it with the help of painting tape. You can also drill and install one extreme fastener, which will hardly fix the bar and will not give it to move.
Installation through the plinth
- We take a drill with a thin drill for metal 3-4 mm. Take the drill is authentic - so as not to spoil the plastic cartridge. We make markers on the profile and on the wall.
- First of all, drills at the edges and in those places where the plinth "lags behind" from the wall.
- We apply intermediate marks with such a calculation so that between the fasteners it was a distance of 35-40 cm, (in the extreme case, it can be more, but not more than 50 cm).
- Remove or move the plinth.
- By stamps drill the holes of the desired diameter. If dowels are used (with screws or nails), then the drill take 1 mm larger than the nail / screw diameter. When using screws, the drill diameter is 1-2 mm less than the diameter of the screw.
- We return to the place the bar, put on the edges of the required challenges, install fasteners.
- Fresh the following fragment.
Drill and not spoil the plinth or flooring - this is the task
The last stage is a masking of the installation site of the fastener. This stage disappears if the plastic floor plinth was with an formed cable-channel and fasteners were installed in this recess. If it was necessary to drill through the front surface, the remaining holes we disguise the stickers in the form of small circles, which are selected by the color of the plinth.
Choice of screws / screws / dowel-nail
First of the size - the load on plastic plinths is usually not very big because they take a small fastener. Optimally - diameter 4-5 mm (can be 6 mm), length - 25-40 mm.
The color of the fastener is white, yellow, black - choose depending on the color of the plastic plinth. The choice is simple - to be least noticeable.
Fasteners Choose with flat wide hats
When choosing, look at the shape of the hat. It should be big and as flat as possible. In this case, disguise everything will be easy.
Several practical moments
When installing a plastic floor plinth with a cable channel, laying the cables more conveniently smalleled in some way into the bundle. If the cables are very tough, they strive to jump out. In this case, the screed is more convenient to use bilateral tape. It will hold the conductors on the spot.
Cutting some types of plastic floor plinth can be conventional stationery / wallpaper knife, but it is better to use a saw blade with a metal
Even with the correct calculation of the length of the plinth pieces (they must go for 2-3 mm in a diverse element) outer angles have a pop-up property. To get rid of this trouble, the connection is launched by a sealant. It is better to use silicone. It remains elastic after drying, can be dismantled if necessary.
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