Decorating the balcony with your own hands: step by step instructions and tips
If you are finishing the balcony with your own hands, the step-by-step instructions are in most cases the same for different facing materials. However, there are nuances use of heaters, top plate decoration, floor decoration.
DIY balcony decoration
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Features of decorating a loggia and balcony
Despite the external similarity of loggias and balconies, these building elements have different designs and operating conditions. Let's look at how a loggia differs from a balcony:
- balcony - the working space is created by a slab cantilevered into the mass of the bearing wall, the heat loss is huge, it makes no sense to insulate the parapet, the side walls - with a thin layer of mineral wool, expanded polystyrene, money will be spent in vain; , the budget will not be spent rationally;
Structural differences between the balcony and the loggia
- loggia - the slab rests on the side walls that run along all floors, it is much easier to insulate the room, but it is forbidden to connect water heating from the central heating system, the owner in such a situation is subject to a serious fine;
A simple definition of a balcony and loggia
Floors are usually lifted by laying logs on which laminate, flooring or plywood base, decorated with vinyl tiles, linoleum, cork. Screeds for porcelain stoneware, linoleum, self-leveling floors on balconies are not recommended, as they overload the slab, reduce its resource, although they are often offered by repair companies.
Option for finishing the balcony floor with laminate
When decorating vertical surfaces, the most popular is to decorate the balcony with your own hands with clapboard or any other lengthy materials - MDF panels, PVC, block house, siding. Less commonly used artificial stone, sheets of gypsum fiber board for painting. The ceiling is leveled with putty or sheathed with the specified facing.
Option for finishing the walls of the loggia with several facings
At the design stage, before purchasing decorative materials, it should be taken into account that some of them emit harmful substances, unpleasant odors, and increase in size when heated. Therefore, it is better to separate vinyl panels, flexible stone, PVC siding from the parapet, side walls with foil roll materials (with a reflective layer outward).
Installation of foil insulation under the balcony wall cladding
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Balcony finishing technology
All of the above decorative finishes are attached to frames made of timber or galvanized profile... Timber is cheaper, but warps when seasonal humidity changes. Therefore, for a stable geometry of the planes of the cladding, a lathing from the profile used in gypsum plasterboard systems is recommended.
Option with wooden crate
Using a metal profile for lathing
For the floor, the budget option for the lag is a timber, a solution with a much higher resource is adjustable floors.
Installation of adjustable floors on the balcony
When choosing a wall covering, consider:
- panels are usually placed vertically on the walls, the profile behind them is horizontal;
- the lining can be fixed as you like, including at an angle;
- siding, block house are mounted horizontally on vertical racks, in the first case this is required by technology, in the second the visual perception of the cladding that imitates the crowns of a log house is not disturbed;
- flexible stone comes in the form wallpaper, therefore, it is placed on the walls, according to the drawing of the front part.
Balcony cladding with plastic panels
Using lining for wall and ceiling decoration
Balcony decoration with a block house
Using flexible stone to decorate the balcony
GVL sheets are attached according to standard technology, the seams are reinforced with serpyanka, the surface is leveled with putty, painted in a convenient color. The crate is covered with foil film material around the perimeter, the insulation on the loggias is laid inside the frames. The wiring for lighting is laid in a corrugation or created from a cable in fireproof insulation.
Sheathed plasterboard balcony
Attention! All options for interior decoration by default are possible only with glazing, parapets made of durable construction materials, or metal racks. External cladding is not covered in this manual.
Lining and block house
When decorating a balcony with your own hands with clapboard, it is recommended to use kleimers - curved brackets pressing the strips in the lock joints. Nails, self-tapping screws split sawn timber, reduce the resource, the aesthetic value of the decorative coating.
When sewing with clapboard, the use of clamps is recommended
The lathing pattern is different:
- lining - timber, the profile is attached to the outer wall of the building, to the parapets horizontally, the cladding is installed vertically, fixed with clamps, locks into each other;
Decorating the balcony with your own hands with clapboard
- block house - hung on vertical posts, also fastened with clamps, located horizontally;
Wall cladding with a block house
Mating points (inner corners) are decorated with wooden fillets on the side walls, along the perimeter of the ceiling, skirting along the perimeter of the floor... Then the lumber is impregnated with linseed oil, wax, oil, opened with 2 layers of varnish or painted.
Decorating wall joints when facing with clapboard with wooden fillets
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Siding, PVC and MDF panels
Decorating a balcony with your own hands with siding, vinyl or MDF panels is absolutely identical to decorating a loggia with clapboard.However, it is necessary to lay a continuous layer of foamed polymeric roll material (for example, Isoflex, Penofol) under the cladding. The reflective layer must face outward to prevent the cladding from heating up in summer.
Siding installation
Manufacturers of vinyl panels, siding produce a variety of additional elements that allow for high-quality sealing, masking joints, joints of load-bearing walls. Wide panels without chamfers and seams are preferable, since they have maximum hygiene, are easy to clean, and do not collect dust.
Balcony decoration with MDF panels
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GVL for painting
A budget option for decorating the interior of the loggia is to sew walls, parapets with sheets of moisture-resistant gypsum fiber board, painting with water-based paint after leveling the seams with putty. The material is intended for waste-free cutting, large surfaces are covered with one sheet. If necessary, you can paste over the walls with tiles, PVC tiles, wallpaper.
Decorating the balcony with your own hands with sheets of gypsum plasterboard
At any stage of operation, vertical planes can be repainted in a different color. GKLV is attached to vertical posts with self-tapping screws, the heads of which are recessed into the fiber. The pits are putty together with the joints, the surfaces are perfectly flat. This is the only one construction and finishing material, from which you can make niches, shelves, increasing the comfort of using the loggia.
Installation of gypsum board on a frame on the ceiling
Flexible stone
When using flexible stone, the working space of the balcony does not decrease. The material is analogous to wallpaper - an adhesive layer, quartz sand or natural stone chips (sandstone, dolomite, marble, granite) are applied to the textile base. The thickness of the cladding is 3 - 5 mm, it weighs much more than wallpaper, so a special glue is needed.
Flexible stone
Flexible stone allows you to obtain seamless coatings using the technology:
- the surfaces of the walls, ceiling, parapets are pasted over with canvases;
- the joints are heated with a construction hairdryer;
- a special mixture is laid on them, similar to covering a flexible stone.
After leveling with a spatula, the hardening of the layer, the coating is homogeneous. This option is more expensive, when the walls are insulated, they are first pasted over with expanded polystyrene, putty with an adhesive composition, and only after that they are decorated with a flexible stone.
Decoration of outer corners with flexible bricks
conclusions
Thus, depending on what technology is used to finish the balcony with your own hands, the step-by-step instructions are somewhat different for the lining, MDF panels, PVC, siding and side house. Decorating with flexible stone is similar to covering walls with heavy wallpaper. Interior decoration with GVL sheets for painting is suitable for a limited repair budget.
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