A warm oxygenated wooden house is environmentally friendly microclimate and aesthetic appearance. The walls of wood even after the final shrinkage continue to "breathe", changing in size. This property of natural material is associated with some difficulties in interior decoration. The best option for a wooden house is plasterboard wall covering. Light weight, simple installation and accessibility of pressed sheets allow you to align the surface of the walls and ceiling without the involvement of specialists.
The advantages of plastering a wooden house from the inside
The structure of the timber is distinguished by relief walls. Moreover, the owners often have a desire to give their home a more modern look. Use drywall in a wooden house to level surfaces, preferably other materials for a number of objective reasons:
- natural composition of dry gypsum plaster;
- high vapor permeability of the material;
- light weight and ease of cutting of facing plates;
- low cost and easy installation on a frame base;
- additional thermal insulation;
- communications wiring hidden behind the casing;
- perfectly flat surface for finishing materials.
The advantages of this choice include covering the wooden ceiling with the same gypsum board plates.
Universal material allows for bold design decisions - multilevel surfaces of any configurations, zone built-in lighting, upper air distribution from the air conditioning system.
In a word - almost everything your heart desires.
Features of installing drywall in a wooden house
There are two ways to attach drywall to surfaces: frameless and frame.
Installation of gypsum board directly on the walls of the timber is undesirable, due to changes in the volume of wood depending on the humidity of the environment. Rigid fastening of plates will necessarily entail the appearance of distortions and cracks in the coating. In addition, the uneven relief of the walls and ceiling of the timber does not allow you to perfectly install GKL.
The interior decoration of a wooden house with plasterboard is possible only with the help of a frame. The budget option for old, well-established buildings and country houses is the installation of gypsum boards on slats or beams made of coniferous wood. At the same time, the casing should not adjoin tightly to the floor and ceiling of the room. The gaps are covered with a plinth.
The mobility of the walls in a new house made of wooden beams can reach 6 cm in height. Therefore, drywall is installed on a sliding frame made of metal profiles. This method allows you to avoid cracks from shrinkage of the house and perfectly level the surface.
Preparatory work
A preliminary calculation of the amount of materials and a detailed work plan for wall and ceiling sheathing with drywall will help to make an estimate and prepare tools for its implementation.
At the first stage, it is necessary to draw a preliminary drawing of all surfaces that need to be leveled. Then, the layout lines of the frame and the location of the fasteners are applied to the plan. At the design stage, it should be borne in mind that the vertical joints of the plates should fall on the axis of the profile with a horizontal shift in each row. Using a carefully designed project, you can easily calculate the number of required profiles, drywall sheets, fittings and fasteners.
To carry out high-quality fastening of GKL, you need a standard set of tools: level, tape measure, marker and chalk for marking fastenings, a drill, screwdriver, knife or saw for cutting.
Guide profiles are installed along the lower and upper perimeter of the room. The first vertical stand is fixed at a distance of 30 cm from the corner of the room, then in increments of 60 cm. Horizontal strips are fixed at the same intervals to spread the structure. Similarly mark the plan of the ceiling.
Installation of the frame base and drywall in a wooden house
The fastening of the frame begins with the exact marking of the lines to fix the guide profiles. In a wooden house, these parts are rigidly fixed only to the surface that is leveled. That is, the wall frame is not associated with the ceiling and floor.
If your house is still shrinking, then before starting work prepare sliding mounts for vertical profiles. To the first level connector (“crab”), a screw is fastened with screws, on which the sliding support PAZ 2 is dressed. This support is fixed to the wall of the house. At the same time, the crab, together with the profile, can freely move up and down within 6 cm. The drywall sheets are cut so that a small gap remains between the floor and the ceiling. Such fastening allows the wall to “breathe” without violating the integrity of the skin. Shrink seams along the floor and ceiling are covered with floor and ceiling plinths.
If the house is no longer new and the shrinkage is behind, then the “crabs” can be attached directly to the wall without fear of cracks.
Work execution order:
- Horizontal guidelines for the guides are carried out at a distance of 10-15 cm from the upper and lower edges of the wall;
- Schedule fastening lines of the uprights;
- Produce a rigid fixation of the guide profiles to the beam according to the lower and upper markings;
- Moving joints for vertical supports are fixed along landmark lines (4 each);
- The main metal profiles and horizontal jumpers are installed on crabs.
After installing the frame, the electric wires are enclosed in a metal box so as not to damage them during the fastening of the CHF. If necessary, heat and sound insulation are placed in the cells between the racks. For this, mineral wool is used.
Sheathing of the frame with gypsum board plates is made to metal profiles with a pitch between self-tapping screws of 30 cm. The fastener caps should be buried by 1 mm in cardboard. Before finishing, the joints and fasteners are putty, pre-glued with a serpentine.
This video simply and clearly explains all the subtleties that must be taken into account when installing the frame: