Starting in a house or apartment repairs, everyone is faced with the problem of cracks in the ceiling. Well if they are small and they are few. But how to seal cracks in the ceiling? It is easy to close up even people, who can do nothing. Small cracks are sealed the old fashioned way using a plaster solution. The mixture consists of equal parts of crushed chalk and sand. Another may consist of synthetic components.
Such cracks are sealed with plaster of Paris, using a metal spatula, good levelling mortar. This incorporation is called spot putty. Applied spot putty to the case when the ceiling is glued with Wallpaper or bright colored water-based paints.
The technology of sealing cracks ↑
- clean the crack by removing all loose parts.
- well primed the fracture deep-primer, preferably in two layers,
- to prepare a solution, and it is good to seal the cracks by filling them with mortar and leveling the surface of the crack and around it with a spatula,
- well allow to dry for about a day,
- well sanded to a smooth finish,
- the ceiling is painted or pasted over by Wallpaper.
Sealing cracks in the ceiling with their hands to execute in several stages by applying small amounts of putty.
This method is good if you need to repair small cracks. But if it is deep and large like to be? In this case, it must first be filled by any filler. As a simple filler you can use fabric strips. These strips need to lay in the crack until it is full. On top of the crack, filled with strips of fabric, glue a separate strip of fabric, wider and longer than most at 10 inches. What would the fabric further shrinking, flap need, to wash and iron. Then namachivajutsja fabric in the glue and applied over the crack and spread with a spatula. Its top can be glued with special masking grid. Mesh is more durable and wear resistant. As the adhesive material used PVA glue.
As these cracks can be repaired with a special material – sealant. When buying sealant, use the advice of the seller that would pick up a suitable sealant.
Sealant and mounting foam is good to use for sealing cracks between the ceiling and the wall. Important sealant to use where there is likelihood of leaks. The sealant adheres well, has waterproofing properties and has life of 15-30 years. Polyurethane foam, in contrast to the sealant, which increases its volume during use. To crack never troubled you need to find and eliminate the cause of cracking.
It is possible to make prevention of cracking with serpyanka. Before applying you should carefully putty the surface, so that no further bubbles appeared. Serpyanka glued on the ground surface and cemented from the top again. This method of treatment of joints and corners will give you the opportunity to forget about the cracks. This method is time consuming, but it’s worth it. Better than every 5-10years to do prevention, than every year to make repairs.
And cracks in the ceiling, you can simply decorate. Easily and beautifully it can be done using a special ceiling boards. With these plates you can hide the cracks, but you can visually align the drops plates on the ceiling. That would have been less visible drops on the ceiling, it is better to take tiles seamless.
Cracks in the ceiling can occur after high-quality repairs on plasterboard ceiling. How to plasterboard ceiling cracks?
Such reasons are several:
- a subsidence,
- if the room is large, and the drywall sheets are mounted without offset,
- if during installation you used the dowels from the kit, dowel – screw as the dowel, in this case, bad razbiraetsa and sags,
- during installation. U – shaped hangers are not properly fastened,
- if plaster ceiling is not pre-puttied up the joints,
- before the plaster ceiling grountovaia, and maybe you are flooded neighbors.
If the ceiling cracks, you need to first find out the cause.
If you decide to fix the crack, make sure it is on will not arise. To fix it on plasterboard stream is first necessary to point, that is slightly increased.
The edges of these cracks, it is necessary to remove all flaking and bad. After that it needs to handle the brush or broom without leaving any debris or dust, after these manipulations the crack the soil and allow it to dry. After it is dry you can putty. Some use ordinary putty, and there is nothing to worry. And you can use a special, furinture, especially well suited for sealing cracks in plasterboard ceilings. After sealing putty must be allowed to dry during the day. Furinture dry, apply primer. After a few hours at the place of the crack must pass satengips. Have satengips fine structure and after treatment, does not require further clean up with sandpaper. After processing the finishing putty ceiling needs painting.
If the ceiling you are not white, and with the addition of caramel, that I had to paint the whole ceiling, place sealing cracked paint mascara on a layer of paint, as close as possible to your your color the ceiling and let it dry. After you paint the ceiling, place of incorporation will not be visible. Another frequently asked question is how to fix a big crack? A big crack need to be repaired using metal mesh. After that, the superimposed layer of plaster. The next layer of plaster is applied after drying the previous one. After drying the last layer, the repaired areas have to undergo a special mesh or sandpaper. Further steps are described above.
How to fix a crack in the ceiling between the plates ↑
- Need crack clean from the old leveling layer,
- with a punch, with a special nozzle, point crack,
- with a construction knife to carefully clean the joint from debris and irregularities,
- using a paint brush is good to coat the inside seam with primer.
The depth of the joint seal Assembly foam. Let it dry and trim the excess. Prepare mortar. What would the seam did not differ from the rest of the surface, strengthen it serpyanka. The space between the foam and junctions shall be carefully filled with a mixture of construction. After drying of the mortar seam is aligned with the ceiling finish plaster.
Repair the cracks on the ceiling of concrete in areas with high humidity, you can use water-resistant putty for interior use. Can t apply fine-grained quick-drying filler. The filler may not exceed four inches, otherwise all your work go to the trouble.
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In this article we in detail told about all aspects of the cracks. By using our tips any of you can do the repair in your house or apartment. You can certainly hire an outside firm or organization for repair, but making your own hands will save you family budget, which is important in our time. I really hope that this article will help you and you can gain from it, how to deal with cracks in the ceiling.
