The subtleties of finishing the toilet with plastic panels

The tiled bathroom looks very nice and respectable. But in order to lay it out beautifully, you need to have certain skills in working with such material, and the tile itself will cost a pretty penny. It is possible to carry out high-quality repairs in the toilet at no extra cost and on your own if you use PVC panels instead of tiles.

To finish the toilet with plastic panels, you do not need to have special construction skills and physical strength. This material has a whole set of other qualities that ensure ease of handling both during installation work and during the operation of finishing from it.

Although plastic panels are not complete without drawbacks.

• It is a lightweight material that is easy to cut and install. It can be used for both walls and ceilings. PVC panels will hide behind them pipes and other communications that are present in the toilet and often do not look attractive at all, like the "native" uneven walls. But it should be borne in mind that when installed on each side, such a coating "eats" about five centimeters of room space.
• It is convenient to decorate a room with this material alone, especially since it is very difficult for two builders to turn around in the cramped space of a toilet room.
• If the panels are installed correctly, they will last a very long time (up to twenty-five years), without requiring special care. They are resistant to chemicals, it is difficult to spoil the coating. It is enough to regularly wipe the PVC walls with a damp cloth so that the toilet does not lose its well-groomed appearance.
• The panels are resistant to moisture and temperature extremes.
• When making a choice in favor of decorating a toilet with such panels, it must be borne in mind that this is a material that melts under the influence of fire, emitting caustic smoke.
• If you hit a plastic wall hard, the panel may break.

To create a specific design in the toilet, you can choose one or another type of PVC panels.

It can be:

• sheet plastic panels;
• wall with decorative frieze;
• with photo printing;
• with a pattern made by laser;
• with thermal printing.

The use of panels with photo printing opens up unlimited scope for design. Entering the toilet, finished with such material, you can find yourself in the atmosphere of an island paradise, among waterfalls, mountains and in any environment that will contribute to peaceful solitude. To create a complete picture, not only the walls, but also the floor and ceiling must be made in a single theme and color scheme. This rule works equally well for the design of a separate toilet and a combined bathroom.

Having made a choice in favor of plastic panels, you need to take into account that there is no single standard for the forms of their release. On sale you can find panels with a width of ten to thirty centimeters.Their length can be from two to six meters. The thickness is also different - from eight to twelve millimeters. If the choice is made in favor of sheet panels, then it should be borne in mind that their width is eighty centimeters and reaches two meters. Length from 105 to 405 centimeters.

Before getting to the installation of the panels themselves, you will have to take measurements of the room and buy everything you need for repair: not only panels, but also profiles for decorating external and internal corners, places where plastic adjoins the ceiling and floor, for decorating cabinets and doors provided for your plan. You will need material to create a crate for future panels. You can choose wooden or metal slats. It must be borne in mind that their parameters will determine how much the area of ​​the toilet will decrease after all the work. The number of battens depends on the height and width of the walls, as well as the distance between the sheathing elements themselves. If a riser, pipes and a ceiling frame are hidden under the PVC panels, you need to lay down the material consumption for this when calculating its total amount.

And you may also need dowels and screws. If they are not on the farm, you need to resolve the issue of their availability in advance. Plastic cladding technology also allows the panels to be glued directly to the walls, if they are absolutely flat. With this approach to finishing you will need "liquid nails". If a crate made of wood will act as a support for plastic, you need to purchase a tool for treating a wooden structure from decay. Using a primer for walls and ceilings will prevent mold from appearing under the panels. Insects under it will not divorce either.

In order to properly repair the toilet, you need to carefully prepare its walls for future decorative finishing. Remove wallpaper and paint from them. For work, you need a metal spatula. Wallpaper that does not lag behind the wall can be soaked by rolling it with a wet roller several times. Do not be too lazy to remove the old wallpaper to the end, so that later you do not have to dismantle the plastic panels and carry out repairs again if a fungus starts there.

As for the paint, it is enough to remove only what is already peeling off the wall. The required number of elements of the wooden frame are cut, they are treated with an antiseptic, including the places of cuts. Then they must be allowed to dry. In an apartment building, a balcony is suitable for this. You can also take the workpieces to the staircase. Until the drying process is complete, you can process the walls and ceiling in the toilet itself.

The primer is applied with a long pile roller. A wide brush is also suitable for business. In uncomfortable areas, it is narrow. It makes sense to apply a couple of layers of soil, especially since it dries quickly. If you decide to renovate the toilet in full - with the replacement of the toilet bowl - it is better to remove the old one before you start performing the crate. If pipes and old electrical wiring require replacement, this issue should also be taken care of a little earlier than it comes to the external design of the room.

To make a frame for panel cladding yourself, you need to decide in advance how the PVC panels will be placed relative to the wall - vertically or horizontally. When placing the panels vertically, the room will appear taller, and the horizontal arrangement will visually expand it. In this case, the "vertical option" assumes horizontal placement of the battens and vice versa. When installing rails, you need to be guided by the readings of the building level. Self-tapping screws or dowels are used to fasten the bars to the walls. Using self-tapping screws, you need to drill holes in the walls and insert plastic chops into them.

By the time of work, the bars should dry out well, otherwise they will be driven later, which can ruin the whole business. They are fastened at a distance of about half a meter from each other. In places where cabinets and shelves will be placed, the elements of the crate should be placed "more often" so that the fastening is more reliable. The most common type of toilet finishing is vertical panel mounting. To make a frame for such a finish, you first need to install its side posts. For this, the slats are fixed with self-tapping screws in the corners of the room. In this case, the vertical planks must not come into contact with the surface of the floor and ceiling.

Then the crate is performed. The first block is fixed at a distance of two centimeters from the floor. A rack line is created around the entire perimeter of the room. The same is mounted under the ceiling. In order for the crate to be uniform, after installing the upper and lower strip of the slats, the distance between them is measured with a tape measure and divided in half. Another bar is reinforced in the middle. Each of the resulting sections is also divided into two and the bars are reinforced again at a measured distance. This continues until the distance between the elements of the sheathing is reduced to half a meter.

To build boxes for communications for paneling, they use the same materials as for creating a frame on the walls. The boxes are attached to the floor and walls. You can connect the bars with self-tapping screws. In the process of work, it is necessary to provide places for technological holes, which will provide access to hidden communications when solving everyday issues. As for the frame itself, not only wooden, but also metal guides can be used for its device.

In order to make the cladding of the walls of the room with PVC panels with your own hands, you will first have to install the racks on which the decorative strips will hold. When the installation of the frame is completed, you can proceed to the next step, which involves the installation of racks that must be nailed to the crate. The slats need to be cut at an angle of forty-five degrees. You can attach them to the crate with nails or a special stapler at a distance of thirty centimeters from each other.

Plastic panels have grooves and ridges, connecting which to each other, you can step by step finish the walls, giving them elegance. Decorative plastic elements in the corners and around the doorway will help close and hide the joints of the panels. It is better not to neglect the installation of such design components, otherwise the repair will look incomplete.

After installing the panels along the walls, you need to decorate the box with a decorative layer around the vertical pipe that runs in the toilet. To hide communications from the eyes, the panels will need to be cut to length, and in order to close the inconvenient place to be aesthetically pleasing, in the end - to install decorative corners where needed. To cover the ceiling of the bathroom with panels, proceed in the same way as in the case of the walls. But in the process of work, you will have to make holes for future lamps and bring out the electrical wires.

In such an important place for an apartment as a toilet, it is not enough to carefully sheathe the walls and bypass all the ledges with decorative panels, giving the room an elegant and well-groomed look. It is necessary to place hooks, niches and shelves in pre-provided places so that the toilet is convenient to use. It is better to designate the places where all this will be attached during the sheathing - then you will not have to guess where the lathing bars are located.

The options for using panels to create hidden niches and shelves can be very different. It will not be difficult for a person who is able to dispose of furniture fittings to imperceptibly close up with a removable panel what should not be in plain sight.It is possible, for example, to provide a window in the decorative trim, under which the water meter is located, with the ability to close it with a plastic door and can be easily opened only when required.

Repair class "economy" with decorating the toilet room with plastic is good to use in "Khrushchev". This is the easiest way to hide the old unattractive riser from the eyes, to make the interior of a small room quite modern and cozy thanks to the competent choice of panels: with a pattern or monochromatic. For example, red walls in the bathroom may seem too extravagant to some people. Green or blue tones in a company with a pattern, for example, in a nautical style, will surely make the decoration comfortable and relaxing.

When repairing a combined bathroom, especially in an old panel house, you need to carefully consider the issue of ventilation, ensuring free air flow between the cladding and the wall, as well as the cladding and the ceiling. The ventilation grill also needs to be assembled from plastic, providing it with a decent design. When installing the floor in the toilet, you can make a cement screed and lay out the tiles. It is important that it does not contradict the general color scheme of the renovated interior. If you even want to keep within the minimum amount of costs during the repair, you should carefully consider the choice of the decorative coating itself.

The risk of running into a low-quality product today is very high.

• For finishing the bathroom, it is better to use panels with additives that increase their flexibility. Material without appropriate additives will be too brittle. Determining how high-quality the panel fell into your hands is not difficult. Good quality plastic can be bent into a ring.
• Press down on the edge of the garment with two fingers. Stiffeners located inside a high-quality panel cannot deform, and there are no dents on the outside.
• The docking strip of the lock on the edge should return to its original position when released after being bent. In a poor quality product, this plastic strip may break.
• Through the top layer of the panel its "insides" should not show through.
• When choosing a material, use your sense of smell. If the panels are made from low-quality components, they will emit a chemical aroma, which will only become stronger in an enclosed bathroom space. This is not only unpleasant, but also unhealthy.

• Decent quality PVC panels should contain additives that prevent the material from catching fire. To verify this, request a product certificate from a specialist in the sales area. If the documents for the goods are not provided to you, it is better to go to another store.
• You should not stop your choice on panels of large width. When it comes to repairs in such a small room as a toilet, this is unprofitable, since there are too many scraps left during installation, which then simply have to be thrown away.
• Take the time to inspect every panel you purchase. It is not uncommon for sellers to put defective items in a bundle of goods. Exchanging them after purchase for a quality product can cost a lot of nerves. We still have to prove that the panels were not damaged during transportation from the store to the house.

The variety of colors of plastic panels opens up great opportunities to embody the most interesting design ideas when creating a bathroom interior in accordance with the taste preferences of apartment owners.

Someone considers it worthy to decorate the walls of the toilet room under a stone, someone prefers certain patterns of wood, and someone else prefers abstract patterns that create a feeling of airiness and lightness, or floral ornaments present on the panels.

• The combination of beige walls with an unusual pattern and a floor decorated in a red "outfit" will make the toilet room visually very warm. In the eyes of people who especially appreciate warmth, such a design will add additional attractiveness to the bathroom. As well as the "neighborhood" of animals and trees on the walls.
• Connoisseurs of spring and summer will feel comfortable surrounded by walls with a pattern of branches and leaves. Even on a gloomy winter day, such an environment will return spring joy. The light green background helps to tune in to peace and never gets boring.
• The choice of flashy colors in the design of the toilet is a rather rare phenomenon, but there is no doubt that such a design can make an indelible impression on all visitors to a secluded room. No one will disregard the combination of red and black in a room with a “special purpose”. Elements in the form of red prints on black walls will only enhance the effect, as will the boring lighting of the ceiling, which echoes the design of the floor with white tiles.

• Decorating the walls of the toilet under a stone would already look quite dignified. However, in combination with the rich dark gray pattern at the bottom of the panels, this room looks especially presentable and rich.
• The use of black tones in the decoration of the bathroom only at first glance seems to be a risky move. The combination of black walls and white fixtures creates a stylish contrast, making the interior impressive and modern. Energetic and strong-willed people will clearly appreciate this neighborhood.

• Gray tiles imitating large tiles give the room a detached neutrality and dignified simplicity. The narrow and light horizontally positioned panels behind the toilet visually expand the cramped space. It no longer puts pressure on the person in it psychologically.
• Soft green plastic panels with a thin, graceful line of drawing around the perimeter of the toilet room look modest, but with dignity. The harmonious design in the room is created without original techniques, but nevertheless makes an excellent impression.

• If you use panels with vertical stripes in blue-pink tones on some walls of the bathroom, you can achieve a cozy effect, since such a pattern resembles the texture of a fabric. In this environment, you can feel like "under a flannel shirt", or like "under a warm blanket." If the same pattern is present on the floor, the effect will be even stronger.
• In pale or beige shades of panels, the toilet space looks calm and at the same time lively, especially with the addition of a small floral pattern. Such colors and ornaments are chosen by balanced people who look at the world seriously and practically. If the walls, decorated with beige panels, get dirty, it will be noticeable, but it will not cut the eyes. In addition, such a surface can be easily washed off.

How to properly install plastic panels in the toilet - in the next video.