Window in the sky
«I am looked in it, as in a mirror, to dizziness»... And it at all about eyes favourite, and about the subject higher and scale – a ceiling. A heavenly height which gives space, reflexion, air and light – all it not a dream of the romanticist, and a reality, воплотимая in house conditions. All secret - in fashionable today eurointerior details – a tension ceiling.
To plaster? Поклеить? To pull! All know, that repair, it проектировка and realisation - in itself employment хлопотное. For example, if variations on a theme of registration of walls and a floor always there was a great variety that such such it is possible to make with a ceiling? Well, to paint-whitewash. To "plant" in the centre a crystal bush of a chandelier with suspension brackets. To paste a ceiling tile, eventually. However all these methods are not so original and old, as the world. Besides, such typically Russian problem of ceiling roughnesses, rough longitudinal seams and even cracks, seasonal or "improvised" by neighbours a floor above stains and smudges and will not dare. Cardinally to improve ours «a window in the sky» the tension ceiling is capable.
Than better a modern tension ceiling of habitual "whitewashing-painting" or wall-paper? The matter is that tension ceilings serve not less than ten years and consequently for long years it is possible to forget about the repair, showered plaster and cracks from усадки houses. Comparing the price of tension ceilings with all means enclosed in repair throughout many years, it turns out, that tension manage much cheaper. Besides, to change colour and the invoice if the same ceiling has bothered, it is very easy: the skeleton already is and enough only to extend an old cloth and to fix the new. And still tension ceilings will allow easily and to establish quickly any lighting devices, systems of ventilation, the alarm system and even protection. They it is masterful will hide cracks, stains and various defects, electroconducting, pipes and building designs, will provide reliable zvuko - and thermoisolation. Such ceiling does not condense a moisture that does by its ideal variant for bathrooms, pools and saunas.
| Modern tension ceilings represent a strong decorative vinyl film (PVC without cadmium addition), thickness of 0,17 mm. One sq. metre weighs 230 grammes, strength on rupture - 13-17 МПа. Such ceilings maintain temperature of air from-30°S to + 70°С, are not afraid of blows, do not burst and easily wash. The "know-how" allows to connect cloths a welding method that guarantees the highest density on rupture and the big area of a covering. Are capable to sustain loading to 100 litres of water on each sq. metre. |
The mirror, matte, velvet, translucent and punched surfaces; stylisation under a fabric, a tree, marble; effect of the Venetian plaster, clouds or the star sky – the palette of colours and shades of a tension ceiling «unties hands» even to the most arrogant designer. On such ceiling it is possible even to deduce the attracted drawing, a photo or a reproduction. Different invoices and shades will help to create traditional classical style with a matte ceiling in pastel tones or modern with the glossy ceiling, reflecting almost as in a mirror your room. This "trick" ideally approaches for small premises as visually increases volume, and, at last, it is simply beautiful. A ceiling draped under sateen – elegance and quiet tone. Varnish – depth and volume. A metallic and a high tech – for those who loves technological decisions. Moire – is poured by freakish waves. Ceilings under a skin, a velvet and a tree embody a natural cosiness of a home. The Venetian plaster and патина – as if looks through pages of the history which have left at Summer.
Both the beautiful clothes are supplemented with ornaments, and the tension ceiling is decorated by illumination systems. Fixtures fasten to the basic ceiling by means of special racks regulated on height, in a tension cloth for them apertures which are pasted over on perimetre special термоизоляционным with a ring are made. With tension ceilings are used both traditional chandeliers, and built in fixtures. Unique restriction – on capacity of lamps: lamps накаливания should be no more than 60 Вт., галогеновые – not to exceed 36 Вт.
| It is possible to consider as a prototype of modern tension ceilings a way of furnish which was applied during antique times in Egypt, Greece and Rome. There various fabrics which stretched on room perimetre in one plane with a ceiling were used. Sometimes the fabric became impregnated with a limy solution and, drying up, she stretched, forming an equal surface and hiding all defects and cracks of the basic ceiling. In the Crimean war, under the certificate of eyewitnesses, in the Sevastopol hospitals to be saved from showered plaster during shellings, pulled bed-sheets under a ceiling. The modern variant of tension ceilings has appeared in Sweden in the sixties the XX-th centuries and has quickly won popularity at first in the western Europe, and then and all over the world, especially in France. And Frenchmen have brought to perfection PVC-FILM manufacturing techniques of which, actually, and the tension ceiling consists. |
Installation of a tension ceiling is "finale" of all repair so such ceiling operation is desirable for making after all other painting and decorating is finished. The furniture in this case is not an obstacle as in the course of installation it is not formed neither dust, nor a dust. The technology of installation of tension ceilings is simple. In the theory. Practice, certainly, should be entrusted professionals. Directly installation is anticipated by departure замерщика, it has the exact sizes of rooms, defines, what communications and the lighting equipment will be placed in a ceiling, helps to pick up colour and the cloth invoice. After manufacturing of this together with accompanying beams-skeletons the brigade from two-three persons establishes a design of all in some hours. It occurs so: at first on room perimetre to walls the baguette fastens. It can be visible or invisible when the ceiling cloth almost closely approaches to a wall (the backlash about 3 mm). The baguette fastens on level so the tension ceiling as a result turns out ideally equal. The ceiling height thus undergoes not such essential changes as many are afraid of that: in total on distance of 3 centimetres below the basic ceiling but if you plan the built in fixtures the ceiling should fall on height of their latent part. If there is a desire to leave the favourite chandelier on a place on an old ceiling the special arm, and only then, after ceiling installation is established, a lamp. Then a thermal gun the premise heats up to 50-60 degrees, a cloth stretch and assign a baguette. As the premise cools down, the cloth stretches and becomes ideally equal, smooth and with a homogeneous firm surface. New "height" of a fashionable interior is taken!
The ceiling payment is red
In the Chelyabinsk market of ceiling design the price for assembly services depends on structure of a chosen cloth, metric area and complexity of carried out works. The most economic – matte and sateen ceilings. Averages at cost – glossy, imitation under suede, a velvet, a tree go in higher price equivalent. Photographic expositions will cost even more expensively. Painting by light and every possible optical patterns with use of the fibre-optical equipment are considered as the most expensive. The more the premise area, the is less cost factor. For standard 17 metre rooms in the basic firms of a city following prices, counting on sq.m. operate:
| The service name | «ОМЕГА» | «Фигаро» | «A ceiling 74» |
| Ceilings with the Russian film | |||
| The white matte | 406 rbl. | 403 rbl. | 379 rbl. |
| The colour matte | 551 rbl. | 430 rbl. | 513 rbl. |
| Ceilings with a foreign film | |||
| The white matte | 610 rbl. | 680 rbl. | 617 rbl. |
| The colour matte | 614 rbl. | 723 rbl. | 647 rbl. |
| The white glossy | 659 rbl. | 775 rbl. | 741 rbl. |
| The colour glossy | 718 rbl. | 801 rbl. | |
| Photographic, "clouds" | - | - | From 884 to 2138 rbl. |
| Suede, velvet, tree | - | 1186 rbl. | 1100 rbl. |
| Additional works | |||
| Installation of one chandelier | Free of charge | Free of charge | From 150 rbl. |
| Installation of the second dot fixture | 450 rbl. | 430 rbl. | 425 rbl. |
| Fringing of pipes | 100 rbl. | 100 rbl. | 150 rbl. |
| Additional corners (more than 4 pieces) | 70 rbl. | 78 rbl. | 85 rbl. |
The ideal geometry, smooth, светоотражающая a surface, set of accompanying special effects – all this wonderful triad which has settled down on the highest point of your dwelling, amazes imagination and creates unique интерьерную luxury atmosphere. Look above, breathe more deeply, admire the mirror reflexion, smile to it – and the world will present to you the whole symphony of game of the paints, happy instants and new victories!
Alisa Winter