There is no longer any need to carry to his apartment a pile of brick or bucket of concrete to build a small wall inside the dwelling. One of the most popular materials for our users is a plastic and easy-to-use drywall. It meets all known safety standards and is well suited for both professionals and those who rarely encounter construction work.
How to make a drywall partition in an apartment?
- You can make such partitions in any dry and warm room with a constant air temperature of 10 degrees or more. Drywall in a cold room can gradually accumulate moisture and begin to warp.
- Mark the marker on the floor with the place where our design will be installed.
- Using the plumb and the melted cord, we transfer the markings to the ceiling and walls.
- It happens that the product is somewhat shaky and shaking while walking around the room. You can buy a special and easy-to-use rubberized tape, which is easy to stick on the profile and eliminate any unpleasant sounds.
- We fix the profile to the walls and the shelf along the perimeter of our future frame, using dowels.
- For work we use self-tapping screws for metal.
- The point of these fastening screws is made in the form of a kind, and easily enters the material.
- In our business, you need not to spare money for good stuff, buying cheap thin profiles. The metal should be at least 0,4-0,6 mm thick, otherwise the screws will simply spin like a candy foil.
- Make a partition with your own hands can be even stronger, reinforcing it with a wooden beam.
- We put it inside the profile and screw it to the metal with a screwdriver.
- In the new room it will be dark, we have all the walls deaf, so you can perform one or more windows in the wall in addition. We retreat from the ceiling about 40 cm and attach a horizontal guide.
- How to make the partition as stable as possible? We insert vertical profiles into the lower and upper slats with a step of 40 cm.
- It's time to form a frame for window frames. In our case there will be two windows 90 cm wide.
- From the inside we coat the finished frame with plasterboard.
- Cut two holes in the attached sheets with a hacksaw.
- How to make a partition in the room so that it effectively protects the tenant from the cold and extraneous sounds? It is possible to lay a special insulating material inside the wall.
- It is best to buy absolutely safe and non-combustible mineral wool, which is cut to size perfectly.
- Filling the insulator with the insides of the frame, we coat our product from the outside with plasterboard.
- If you have learned the lesson how to make a drywall partition in the room correctly, then this facility will be fail-safe to serve you for decades.
How to make a partition in the room?
The main modern materials for the construction of similar structures in an apartment or private house:
- drywall;
- gypsum fiber;
- plywood;
- MDF;
- Particleboard;
- tree;
- glass;
- metal.
If you want to divide a large room and create an additional bedroom or a soundproof room, then it's worth taking a drywall. When it is necessary to separate the toilet from the shower cubicle or wash basin in the bathroom, waterproof plastic is suitable. The wall itself in this case, it is not necessary to build up to the ceiling, it is desirable to leave an upper space for air movement. If the owners are planning to hang some shelves or communications on a new wall, then it should be strong and stable. But in other cases transparent or matte screens, partitions openwork, which are a more decorative decoration, rather than a load-bearing structure, will do.