Liquid wall-paper

Want to give a unique appearance to a premise? Switch to an innovation of the market of building materials liquid wall-paper!

Are you considering them as analog of paint? Down with errors! This is dry mix consisting of natural cotton or cellulose fibres, high-quality dyes and glutinous solution. So it is a liquid wall-paper. As a result of their mixing with water you receive stylish walls with the structured covering.

  

Besides that liquid wall-paper is a non-polluting material (because it don't spread harmful substances in atmosphere), liquid wall-paper won't collect dust as there are no synthetic substances in them. Liquid wall-paper will be ideally suited for the people, suffering an allergy. Liquid wall-paper possesses excellent sound and a thermal isolation. Considerable plus at furnish of wall-paper is absence of seams. Liquid wall-paper helps to hide defects of walls, for example cracks, stains. Liquid wall-paper is easily restored after damage. It’s enough to paint over a new portion of a mixture.

More important is that liquid wall-paper as the material is universal in respect of placing. It may be used in apartment, office. Because of high degree of ecological compatibility it is used for furnishing of nurseries. If you have a premise with the raised humidity, it is necessary to cover liquid wall-paper with an acrylic varnish. So they’ll become resistant to humidity.

A variety of color scales and patterns allow to choose the liquid wall-paper that best suits particularly your style.

There are no difficulties in furnishing of walls with liquid wall-paper. Just clear the wall and make a primer coating of walls. Than mix the solution and apply it with spatula. Depending on a thickness of a layer and the manufacturer wall-paper dries one or two days.

What it is necessary to know while choosing paint?

To make the right choice of paints for repair work in a room or office, it is necessary to accurately imagine what kind of paint and for what painting works it is intended. In fact there are a huge set of paints.

Paints are divided on kinds. Depending on a used basis there are oil, acrylic, epoxy, bitumen and many other paintings. There are paints for work indoors and outside. Also you can find electrically insulating and reformative paintings. How to make the most correct choice? There are some rules which will guide you through the process of choice of paints. These rules will considerably narrow a choice.

1. Coloring of ceilings. Paints that are applied to this purpose are capable to pass air and moisture through the dried out layers. If this condition is not observed, the mold will be formed on walls and ceilings. As an example of a correct choice you may choose polyvinylе acetate emulsions.

2. Coloring of wooden products being in a premise (excepting a floor) should be performed by pentaphtol and glyptal paints. There should be an inscription about its application for internal works on the packaging of similar paints. Number of such paints begins on «2».

3. Windows are painted with the same paints, but on packing there should be a mark about application of such paints for external works and their number begins with one.

4. A floor is painted with a special paint with the raised stability in response to intensive friction. There should be a corresponding inscription on packing.

5. To color the pipes of heating system apply the paints that are able to withstand high temperatures.

These rules will help you to buy paints correctly without any special knowledge.

Repair of walls. The review of materials for furnish

During the wall furnishing, be it a living room, or office premise, the great variety of various materials are used. It can be plaster (usual or decorative), decorative panels (laminated, plastic), a ceramic tile and so on. We will consider only some of them.

1. Decorative (facing) panels. Tree or plastic serves as a material for manufacturing of these panels. Installation and care aren’t forcing big expenses. There are sheet and type-setting facing panels. It is possible to pick up panels of almost any color and a shade.

2. Decorative plaster. It is capable to hide any defects of wall and is easily installed on a surface. It is necessary to note not only various color scale of decorative plaster, but also very a wide range of quality indicators. It should be considered during a choice.

3. Corky material. It is made of a cork tree and, considering good indicators in respect of stability to humidity, is applied for furnishing of premises with high humidity (bathrooms and kitchens).

4. A flock. The small material similar to coarse sand, mixed with a glutinous basis and covered with a varnish. Walls don't need preparation. The material is steady against mechanical damages. It is washed easily.

Decorative plaster: beauty and luxury

Decorative plaster — modern trend of the advanced technologies. And not only building technologies (reliability and durability indicators), but also design issues. The given kind of decorative plaster ideally combines in itself both these indicators. However, not always the technology of building and design decisions in manufacture of decorative plaster is at high level. Well, here the market is already arranged under demand which arrives now not only from large firms of finishing works, but also from ordinary consumers, wishing to improve their interior by new modern decisions, but not possessing solid monetary capitals. Besides ability to match in any house interior or a facade decorative plaster has also many of other important advantages. The most important thing is an impartiality to the types of underlaying surfaces. It ideally comes into contact to any surface and besides, hides all its roughnesses, cracks and defects — what can be better? This quality of decorative plaster also causes sympathy of the mass consumer, along with a variety of colors and patterns which allow to realize, perhaps, any design idea. Besides, decorative plaster possesses high durability and stability, and will serve to you for long time, pleasing an eye and cheering up. The choice in favor of decorative plaster becomes obvious, when on other bowl of scales there are wall-papers and wall panels. Cold wall panels and wall-paper are the signs of the last century. Decorative plaster will create to you really unique pattern, will give impression of luxury and a cosiness, and also says that you move in step with the progressive world which is a good judge of furnish of an interior.

Coloring of surfaces by oil paints

Oil paints are used for coloring of various surfaces. Drying up, the paint forms a film which protects a surface from humidity and rotting, and also from many other influences of environment on a surface. It is possible to wash the surfaces painted by oil paints with water, without being afraid of paint destruction.

New surfaces from wood have to be prepared carefully before coloring. It is necessary to cut down all knots and to cut off fibers, to drown more deeply the hats of nails. If you won't take care of mentioned factors then after coloring all these defects will act as hillocks on a surface. After cutting down knots, it is necessary to cover these places by plaster.

For the greatest quality of coloring, it is necessary to varnish a surface with oil. But it’s better simply to make primer coat with a liquid paint of the same color. It provides easier and more qualitative painting of a surface. For better adhesion of oil with a wooden surface, it needs to be warmed up and varnished several times. All small cracks and pores should be filled. It is necessary to wait time while earlier layer will dry up before you will varnish the next layer of oil. But in most cases varnishing is done just once.

Siding

What is the siding? Being simple on a design, this finishing material carries out two basic functions which are protection against influence of environment and improvement of esthetic appeal of architecture are. The first function, function of protection against influence of atmospheric moisture — a rain and snow, more important, than the second as the dampened construction is more vulnerable to destruction, rather than protected. Besides the huge role is played by a finishing material of which the construction is made. If this building or a construction from sand-lime brick, a problem is not so are essential, as though a finishing material was the wood which especially hasn't passed special processing and protection. To all other facts the moisture creates preconditions for occurrence of a mold and insects which obviously would not be positive features for arrangement of premises.

The second important quality of a siding as finishing material, is its esthetic appeal. By means of a siding it is possible not only to receive a building of the necessary color scale that could be necessary, for example, for shop of a trading network, but also to hide from eyes misses of builders or the rests of an old covering which spoils positive impression of the done work.

The modern industry gives a huge choice of a siding. Except wide assortment of a color score, there is also a possibility to choose the necessary sizes and a material of which the siding is made.

How to choose a natural parquet?

Environmental safety, durability, excellent sound insulation and longevity of natural parquet helped him to gain incredible popularity among both builders and buyers long time ago.

Here are some of the issues that may occur in almost any consumer during the selection and purchase of natural parquet floor. How to lay a parquet floor? Which wood to use for given interior? What kind of pattern should be selected for the parquet floor in present conditions? What should be paid close attention when choosing a natural hardwood parquet floor? There are a lot of features when purchasing this flooring to be paying close attention. Consider these important questions of this laying a parquet floor.

The parquet floor is divided into flooring, mosaic parquet, boards and pieces. For good parquet flooring oak wood, maple, ash, beech, bamboo and some other kinds of wood should be used.

Oak is recognized as one of the most popular woods for natural parquet. This flooring has durability, high strength, beauty, and, of course, good wear resistance. In addition to the oak parquet flooring is widely used for packing in a variety of interiors and a nice parquet floor made of beech. Among the features of high-quality parquet floor made of beech we can name a very good handling and light, soothing color. Now coming into fashion and high quality hardwood floor of hornbeam, having moisture resistance, reasonable cost and a solid margin.

Typically some of the most common methods of parquet mounting are used: Vietnamese, deck, herringbone. In addition to these ornaments artistic styling natural parquet flooring are also applied. In the beginning, to perform artistic parquet you should make a detailed draft.

So what to choose in the end? In fact, the adoption of a final choice is entirely yours. Everything will depend on what you need to get in the end. One has only to observe that without the help of real professionals in this case you can not do, as a natural hardwood floor installation work is complex and complicated.

Glazed tile for walls

A single row almost never includes the integral part of the tiles. So the tiles should be cut into pieces. Use the following tools: glass cutter, emery wheel, a ruler. Glass cutter with a ruler cut a glaze layer. Then gently strike the tile by hand with the edge of a table or board. At the emery wheel the edges should be aligned. After that prepared tiles have to soak in water for 2-3 hours. They are impregnated with moisture. This will improve the adhesion between the tile and grout. Also to get good adhesion you can moisten the back of the tile surface with a solution Ceresit cm11.

 

Ceresit cm11 solution is applied to the back of the tiles in the form of a truncated pyramid. After this tile with a solution Ceresit is applied to the wall and face down to the general level of finishing. Clean the excess grout with a spatula or trowel. Ceresit thickness varies from one to one and a half centimeters. First fit guides for Ceresit, the so-called lighthouse tiles. They are placed by one in each corner of the wall. Place them in a strictly vertical and horizontal. Stretch the cord between these guide tiles. The ends of the cord are attached to the rail. The rail is placed along the edges of the wall. Each tile must fit on the cord. The first row is placed on the wooden board which supports the raw. To make the seams everywhere the same in width use crosses for tile or wedges when laying these tiles. After laying the tile joints should be cleaned and filled with a spatula to fill the mortar joints (with a special solution Ceresit). The entire surface should be cleaned with a damp cloth.

Another method of laying tile is styling with glue. This method of laying tiles are best used when there is very durable and smooth base. Technically styling with an adhesive is similar to working with cement mortar. At the end of the process of laying all the seams are filled with glue. The surface is wiped with a damp cloth. Clay usually dries completely between two to three days. Adhesives in shops and construction markets are sold in dry form. Method of preparation is indicated on the packaging. "Ceresit cm11", "Ceresit cm 117", "The Moment ", "Master " and others are suitable for installations. The adhesive fillers are introduced to increase the thickness of the adhesive layer. As you can see, the technique laying ceramic tile requires certain skills. The quality of performed work determines the service time of your tiles. Therefore, it’s advisable in these cases to hire the competent person who will make laying the tiles with high quality and reliance.