IN last years The interior wall decoration is becoming increasingly popular natural materials such as:

• a natural stone;
• brick;
• wood;

However, finishing with these materials is quite expensive and not everyone for the means, and it is very difficult to work with such a material and a long time. There is some kind of such a position if you apply wall decorative panels for interior decoration, imitating natural stone, brick or tree.
The quality of the manufacture of such panels is that at first glance they cannot be distinguished from natural analogues, and the cost is much smaller.

In the modern construction market, you will be offered under the stone made by various manufacturers from different countries. All they differ among themselves with the composition of materials from which they are produced by manufacturing technology and various installation methods.

One of the successful solutions was the use of fiberglass in the production of wall panels.

Fiberglass has a multitude of positive characteristics that helped him gain popularity:

• It is very durable and light material. High strength provides a fiberglass layer, which is reinforced by the entire inner side of the panel.
• In order to establish the release of a certain type of panels, the prototype from the natural material is first made and fastened with a binding solution.
• Such a natural model is further a stamp for the manufacture of follow-up.
• Absolute similarity with natural material appreciate harmless dyes.
• From fiberglass, you can create a wide variety of surfaces of panels: starting from absolutely even to imitation of coarse, untreated stones.

Fiberglass panels can be searched for walls in homes and offices, create unique interiors in hotels and restaurants. They are well suited for registration exhibition halls, theatrical scenery and shooting pavilions.
Fiberglass panels have many positive characteristics:

• It is very easy and durable material.
• It is easily mounted and dismantled. It can be used repeatedly.
• Plastic panels can be mounted on raw coating or concrete.
• To create additional sound and thermal insulation, it is enough to lay a layer of the corresponding material between the panel and the base.
• Fiberglass panels Environmentally friendly product, completely harmless to health.
• He does not fade over time.
• This material is not afraid of moisture, is not subject to rotting and mold.
• It does not support combustion, fireproof, with fire almost does not release toxic substances.
• If you add a low cost here, then we will receive almost the perfect finishing material.

Different types of panels can reproduce a wide variety of stone masonry reliefs:

• So, for example, the panel, which is called "Ripped limestone", reproduces stone masonry from wild limestone.
• Such a relief can be used as for outdoor facingand for the interior decoration of walls and individual elements of the premises (columns, arches, fireplaces, etc.).
• They look good panels, imitating the finishing stone "Mountain Slate". The deep relief of the panel allows its similarity to its similarity to the natural analogue.
• Finishing the premises with panels with such relief can radically change its interior.
• The "Jurassic Stone" panel reproduces the relief of masonry from the stones of the rectangular shape, the cooler structure and various sizes.

The color solution of these panels is fully consistent with the stylistics of the vintage walls. The panels with texture under marble and travertine use good demand.

Panels for marble or travertine are coated as walls of premises and individual elements (finishing of internal and outer angles). Also, these panels are used for interior decoration in combination with other reliefs.

Wall panels under the brick

Panels exactly imitating brick masonryReleased in many countries. Their use in wall decoration interior premises It is becoming increasingly popular.

His attractiveness wall panels Under the brick acquired on the basis of the advantages they possess:

• Mix the wall panels with your own hands.
• One wall panel closes the area to 3 m², which significantly speeds up the finishing works.
• The main advantage of wall panels is their low cost. Indeed, the production of the woodworking industry (chips, sawdust, branches, bark) is mainly on the production of this finishing material.

The panels from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are even cheaper. The quality of such panels is excellent, and in appearance they are almost impossible to distinguish from genuine brickwork.
The wall panel under the brick is a flat chipboard plate of such sizes:

• width - 2440 mm;
• height - 1220 mm;
• thickness - 6 mm;

Wall panels produce from the wood fiber eucalyptus, which contains its oils and resins.
The panel is formed under high pressure and temperature. This distinguishes lignin, which is a binding substance.
In this case, the front side is stylized under the brickwork and is covered with acrylic paint.
Such panels are performed, holls. They are well suited for the manufacture of theater decorations, for the design of the exhibition halls.
They can be seen from the inside balconies and loggias.
Caring for such panels is very simple. It is quite occasionally walking along the panels of a soap rag and your walls will always be clean and fresh.

Wall panels under the tree

Wall panels from chipboard (chipboard) under the tree are created by pressing when high temperatures From large sawdust or chips. As binder The formaldehyde resin is introduced into the panels from the chipboard.
Therefore, the chipboard panels are not recommended for decoration of residential premises.

The panels from DSP have a lot of flaws:

• The strength of such panels is inferior to wood strength.
• From temperature drops, the chipboard panel can be destroyed.
• Such panels do not tolerate high humidity.
• When processing the panel crumbs.

Wall panels made of wood-fiber plates for wood are also made by pressing at high temperatures.

But in the manufacture of DVP, synthetic binders are not used as the production of this material is highlighted with a lignin, which is the binder. PVPs are not afraid of high humidity, they can be mounted in any room.
It should only not allow direct water from entering.
The DVP panels are mounted on the cheek. This is a simple job and you can make it with your own hands.
Wall MDF panels for wood relatively new finishing material. They are made of MDF plates.

These plates are created by dry pressing with small chips at high temperatures. In the quality of the binding agent, lignin is used, which is released from wood chips in the production process.
With these panels, you can sow all rooms with any level of humidity. Material MDF is quite durable with good sound and thermal insulation properties.
There are panels with refractory impregnation.

Types of wall panels

Tile panels are available rectangular shape. The size of the side of the square is from 30 cm to 90 cm.

Due to the square shape of the panels, selecting various drawings and combining the colors can be created on the wall a unique composition. These panels are fixed to the wall on glue or cleimers.
There is another feature of the tile panels - they are connected to each other according to the groove-groove scheme. To connect panels with each other you need to use inserts.
Tiled panels are made of such materials:

The panels are recruited from individual sheets width up to 30 cm. The length of them can reach up to 240 cm.

These are such long and thin rails. Such panels are well separating the rooms of a small area or those who have many corners.
Due to its size, leafy wall panels have gained wide popularity in the interior of the premises. One panel closes almost 3 m² walls. What significantly speeds up finishing works.

The dimensions of such panels are:

• height - 1220 mm;
• width - 2440 mm;
• thickness - from 3 to 6 mm;

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Decorative stone for interior decoration - selection subtlety and installation tips

The article will be interested in those who decided to apply an artificial stone for the interior decoration of apartments or private houses. I will tell you what are sold decoration Materials By stone, how to install them better and which of these materials can be made independently.

Why exactly artificial stone

• Wild natural natural stone is good, reliable and durable. But such a cladding is more suitable for facade work and landscape design. After all, the facade, as a rule, is separated once and for the rest of his life, and we want a variety inside the house;
• Another reason is the solid weight of natural material. Inner cladding Weight in several hundred kilograms is not suitable for each room. And then for the installation of such a cladding, a base with appropriate strength is needed, the wild stone does not stick to the plasterboard;

• Any master will tell you that the easier the facing, the easier it is to mount it or change it. From this point of view, decorative artificial stone, compared with his natural fellow, wins significantly. The technique of his styling is so simple that even an inexperienced amateur will cope with it;
• But hardly the main reason for which people choose an artificial finishing stone for internal workis an affordable price. Even the most expensive representatives of this area, such as acrylic imitation of stone and porcelain stoneware are an order of magnitude cheaper natural materials.
  And if you make such a cladding with your own hands, what I will tell you a little later, then you will cost you ten times cheaper. With all the same appearance This finish is practically no different from the natural stone.

Types of artificial stone

Naturally decorative facing stone differs not only in appearance. Performance characteristics primarily depend on the material from which the interior stone is being made. And let's start with those models that can be made with your own hands.

In this case, we are not interested in plastic under the stone, for the interior decoration it is no longer relevant. The only direction where this material is still in demand - plastic base. We are also interested in only those types of decorative stones that are 100% repeated the appearance of natural minerals and mountain breeds.

Cement-based imitation

Finishing material based on cement is deservedly considered a universal option. The high strength of cement is known to everyone, respectively, and products from it will be the same strong. So if you take a high-strength brand of cement (from M500 and higher) and make, for example, imitation of limestone or sandstone, then this imitation will be stronger than natural stone.

Cement decorative blocks easily endure increased humidity and temperature differences. Therefore, this cladding can be used in any places, including for finishing the facade.

But even if there is some force majeure, it will not be much difficult for you to repair the details of such a cladding. Plus, for example, in the office, the fire inspector for this decoration will not have any complaints.

The only minus of this material is a relatively large weight of the cladding. In fairness, problems may occur with installation. But here you will save the glue for the decorative stone.

At the beginning of the article, I promised you to tell about the materials from which you can independently make a decor for stone. So these materials are cement and plaster. How to do decorative rock From the gypsum, I will tell you further in the relevant chapter, and now let's talk in detail about Cemente.

From tools and equipment, the first and most important device is a polyurethane or silicone form. Without it, a stone will not work. To mix the solution, we need a container and an electric door with a mixing nozzle. To make it easier to level the solution, buy a spatula or celma.

Cement is the main material. But to knead the solution you will need clean, washed river sand With a shallow fraction, some plasticizer and dye.

Cement Of course you can take any, the main thing that the brand is higher. But personally, when I was engaged in such activities, I bought a white portland cement. Such a composition you can decorate in almost any colors. While the usual gray cement in the yellowish color of sandstone is no longer painting.

Sand is better to take exactly the river, in the yellow career sand is a big percentage of clay. Although if you decide to make sandstone or slate, the presence of clay will be only a plus.

The most affordable and reliable "worker-peasant" plasticizer has always been glue PVA. On the usual bucket of 10 - 12 liters takes 250 - 300g glue. Dyes of course it is better to take acrylic, but it is not fundamentally, now there are many other cheaper makeup.

Some are easier: pour stones from cement or plaster, and then they are just painting on top. The option is in principle acceptable, but in this case, scratches and chips will need to be tangled. And given the fact that any paint flashes over time, traces of such repairs will be noticeable.

• The solution is made in a standard proportion of 1: 3 (cement / sand). First they are mixed on dry. If you have taken a dry dye, it is added at this stage;
• Further is added water and plasticizer and with a drill with a mixing nozzle solution is brought to the state of thick, but fluid sour cream. At the same time, liquid dyes are added with water;

• The solution is poured into 2 stages. First, the form is filled to half, the composition is well smoothed by the spatula and in each element is invested in advance prepared piece of reinforcing grid. You can use both sickle (fiberglass mesh) and a conventional metal plaster mesh with a cell size of 10 mm and a wire thickness of about 0.5 mm;

• At the second stage, you fill in a completely shape with a solution, smash it and remove it with a spatula or celma. You can remove blocks from the form in a day;
• There are a couple of nuances here. First, the shape before the filling of the composition so that the parts are easier to get, it is necessary to smear with soap solution, notice, not oil, namely soapy. And secondly, after about an hour and a half after the fill, when the solution begins to capture, I take a piece of thick wire and nano on the back of our artificial stones arbitrary pattern. Thanks to this little things, the tile will be better glued and tightly hold on after.

Imitation based on plaster

Decorative gypsum stone appeared long before his cement fellow. The gypsum stone weighs much less than a similar cement product or stones based on polymer binders.

If we talk about the cost, then the gypsum artificial stone is perhaps the most affordable. And if you do it with your own hands, then such an interior finish will cost a penny at all.

Gypsum stone for interior decoration, perhaps, has only one drawback, it is afraid of wet premises. It is still possible to mount it on the wrong balcony, but in the bathroom the presence of plaster is undesirable.

Although one of my comrade lined the bath homemade gypsum stone, after which the soil struck deep penetration And several layers of yacht Uretan-alkyd varnish. And you know, for about 5 years, facing is as new.

The tool and fixtures for the manufacture of plaster cladding are used as as in the case of cement, so I will not repeat. But the composition and technology change slightly.

The decorative gypsum stone is made of pure gypsum of the brand "G5", hare-lime, the people of the Pushonka and the dye. Naturally, all this is indulging in water. The reinforcing grid in this case is not used, since the gypsum blocks are not so heavy as cement.

The materials are taken in the proportion, 1 kg of gypsum goes 150 - 200g of the limestone of the membranes and about 700g clean water. The dye is added, as they say "to taste".

• The manufacturing technology itself looks like this. First, the dye is added to the water and stirled;
• Further there is poured and is well stirred by a mixer plaster;
• The lime is sent to the container in the container and also smelled well. The solution you must get liquid with high fluidity. This is important, since the thick solution will be badly filling out the shape and break too quickly. If you consider it necessary, you can add more water;

• After that, you set the shape on a strictly horizontal surface, pouring into it everything that it turned out and remove the spatula. It is necessary to act quickly, since the maximum time for setting the plaster does not exceed 25 - 30 minutes. After an hour, the plate can be taken. And do not forget to smear the shape of a soap solution in advance.

For those who do not want to mess around with placing plaster or cement, the ready-made dry mixture "Komnenedel" is now produced. Her manufacturers made it for the lazy. Money "Komnyedel" is more, but the stones are obtained much better and are suitable for installation in any premises.

Acrylic resin

If the two previous options were exclusively for the stone decor, then all subsequent can be bolded to call mixed products. The fact is that these stones are more than half consist of dust or crumbs of those most natural minerals or rocks that they copy.

So in acrylic stone, the base is most often the base is the granite or marble crumb, stirred with white clay. And acrylic resins are used as the main binder.

From acrylic stone, countertops, window sills and other similar materials are now actively manufactured. The cost of such a finish is in the average price category. Manufacturing technology is not particularly difficult, but expensive professional equipment is required. Therefore, as you understand, we are not talking about creating such a stone.

Quartz

Facing on the basis of living quartz and artificially you will not really call. After all, in finished products, the natural mineral of the living quartz takes at least 90%. The synthetic polyester resin in this case is the binder.

From a quartz artificial stone, as well as from acrylic, not only facing, and still countertops, window sills and plumbing. True, the price of such products is higher than on acrylic analogs. But they cost the operational characteristics of quartz products above.

The manufacturing technology in acrylic and quartz stones is very similar. Yes, the equipment is used almost too. Therefore, if the manufacturer produces acrylic products, it means that there are almost certainly in the lineup, there are quartz.

Flexible stone

The so-called decorative artificial flexible stone, partly resembles the usual wallpaper. According to the technology, a crumb or natural sandstone dust with a polymer binder is applied to a solid tissue basis.

This material is produced both wide web and as small tiles. Its thickness can reach 5 mm. It is very convenient when decorating round and other curved surfaces.

For example, you can make yourself columns or plasterboard arches, and flexible stone will help them give them a solid look. In order not to buy an expensive angular decorative profile, many masters also use flexible options for finishing the corners, cheap and angry.

By the way, such a coating can be made independently. Fiberglass canvas is taken as the basis, in the peoples called a cobweb. This canvas is covered with a two-millimeter layer of some acrylic or silicone acrylic glue.

And further on this glue by arbitrary patterns, small stone crumb is poured. So that the facing turned out to be relatively smooth, the layer of stone crumbs should be periodically pressing some smooth plate.

Tile under stone

This case is not a simple tile. The imitation of the stone is performed using a porcelain stoneware or clinker tile. Porcelain stonewares are used when you need to imitate polished marble plates. And the clinker is more suitable for copying stones with "torn" surface and brickwork.

Porcelain stoneware is made polespotaand clinker tiles from special clay varieties. But the main thing is that the production of these materials does not use synthetic binders. This phenomenal strength such a tile is obtained with high-temperature firing.

Several tips on the installation of artificial materials

For a novice master, it is best to take the finishing stone with a complex texture. Because smooth plates will have to withdraw the level, and this is rather difficult to do without habit.

Before laying any cladding, the surface must be aligned and covered with soil a couple of times. If you mount the "wild" stone with a complex texture, then it is not worth aligning into zero, here the main thing is that there are no large drops on the plane. I had to even glue such a tile on a bare brickwork.

But, for example, for porcelain stoneware and especially for flexible stone, an absolutely smooth surface is needed. In this case, the wall will have to plaster.

On the traditional question, than glue the decorative stone, there is no unambiguous answer. The fact is that for each finish type is now produced its adhesive composition. Do not worry, with the purchase of glue problems does not occur, as a rule, it is sold in the same place where the material itself.

Only from what I want to warn you, so it is from using a simple cement-sandy solution. Indeed, when there were no modern construction mixes, old masters put a stone on him. But believe me, without experience you will not work.

Laying tiles with a geometrically correct form, from installation of products with complex texture is often distinguished only by the fact that between smooth tiles you need to withstand a certain gap. This gap is then filled with grout. And the imitation of a stone with a complex texture is usually glued to jack, without any gaps.

In the theory, everything is simple: a glue layer is applied to the brazed surface and on the tile itself, after which the tile is glued to the surface. If the gaps are required between tiles, then there are plastic crosses for this.

Flexible stone glued on a special glue. But there is a nuance here. So that the jokes were inconspicuous, and the corners were well and glued, they need to warm up the construction. Otherwise, the technology is the same as when climbing wallpaper.

Output

Now you know what happens the facing stone for the interior decoration. And also have an idea of \u200b\u200bhow to independently make such a stone from plaster or cement and mount all this beauty. In the photo and video, this article shows the subtleties of working with this material. If anything is not clear, write in the comment, I will try to help.