A fireplace made of plasterboard and metal profiles is an environmentally friendly and attractive accessory that will add warmth and comfort to the room. You can make and install it yourself without the help of specialists, while saving part of the family budget. This installation looks stylish, and, unlike brick varieties of the fireplace, does not require maintenance. It will perfectly fit into the design of country houses and city apartments.
Choice of design
Before making a fireplace from a profile, you need to design its design. In a city apartment, the dimensions of the structure must fully correspond to the total space of the living space. As a rule, fireplaces are installed in bedrooms, living rooms, halls and kitchens. It is quite common to use it as a TV stand. Depending on the interior of the room, the fireplace can be designed in high-tech, English, rustic, modern and classic styles.
In order for the design to advantageously fit into the style of an apartment or house, you need to pay special attention to the pre-furnace site, chimney and portal. If the fireplace is designed in a classic style, it is decorated with natural wood and / or marble. For false fireplaces, a shelf is an indispensable decorative element. This element adds coziness, the space becomes more functional. You can put candles, figurines, photographs on the shelves.
The portal of a decorative plasterboard fireplace is made with the help of glass with your own hands. The design with an aquarium looks original.
Advantages of a decorative fireplace
A do-it-yourself fireplace made of drywall has a fairly extensive list of advantages:
- simplicity of design;
- any finishing materials can be used for cladding - as a rule, the cost of the fireplace depends on the choice of material;
- small financial investments;
- completely safe design, since there are no heating sources in it;
- using drywall, you can give the fireplace any size and shape;
- the fireplace can be installed in any room, even the smallest.
The advantages of a homemade drywall fireplace include quick dismantling and the ability to transport to another place.
Types of plasterboard fireplaces
Fake fireplaces differ from real ones by the lack of the ability to light a fire in them. The peculiarity of gypsum plasterboard structures is that they are not intended for open fire, even if the surface is additionally treated with refractory materials. There are several types of fireplaces made of plasterboard.
- It is almost impossible to visually distinguish a reliable artificial fireplace from a real one. Such a fireplace is equipped with all the elements that are inherent in the "original" - a grate, a shelf, a chimney and a fireplace insert. Framing a brick or cast iron chimney is painstaking and hard work. In most cases, you have to seek the help of specialists in the industry to sew a pipe. The portal of a reliable false fireplace is equipped with an electric or bio fireplace.
- Corner fake fireplace is the simplest design. You can do it yourself without much effort, it will become the centerpiece of the room and create coziness.
- The symbolic appearance of fireplaces is also easy to manufacture. A ready-made pseudo-portal can be purchased in a store or online site, and installed at home on your own. The room is decorated with blende and dummy.
When starting to manufacture a plasterboard structure, you first need to do all the preparatory and design work.
Preparatory work
Drywall is considered the most versatile building material today. It is easy to work with him, he is unpretentious and takes on almost any finishing.
For the manufacture of a fireplace, drywall sheets are attached to a metal profile, after which the resulting structure is finished.
Installation steps:
- Preparatory work, including the design of the structure, the purchase of building materials and the preparation of working tools.
- Assembly of a false fireplace made of plasterboard and metal profiles.
- Carrying out finishing works.
It is recommended to get started with drawing up a sketch. Sample drawings can be found online. After the approval of the project, it is necessary to carry out measuring work on the ground and adjust the dimensions on the drawing. This is necessary to calculate the required materials.
When all the initial data is ready, you can go to the hardware store to purchase materials. The type of drywall purchased depends on the type of finish. Another important building material is metal profile. To assemble the frame, you will need stands and rails. The parts are fastened with self-tapping screws. The structure is attached to the wall with self-tapping screws or dowel-nails.
Fireplace installation
When all the preparatory work has been completed, you can proceed directly to the construction. The algorithm of actions should be approximately as follows:
- Transfer the drawing of the future structure to nature on the floor and walls in the right place. To make markings in size and level, you need to use special tools.
- Guides are attached to the floor and wall along the markings. If the guide needs to be fixed on a concrete wall, the profile is previously applied to the marked line and holes are made in certain places, then dowels are inserted into them. At the end, the metal guide is again applied and securely fixed.
- Racks are inserted into the guides and fixed with self-tapping screws for metal. A screwdriver is used to work with self-tapping screws. When assembling the frame, it is important to make sure that it is level, and the racks are strictly upright. The wall can be overwhelmed or have an uneven surface, so it is not recommended to be guided by it.
- To stiffen the structure with an interval of 10-15 cm, jumpers are inserted into the profile.
If the fireplace must have rounded edges, in the right places the profile is cut with metal scissors and bent. Finally, the structure is sheathed with plasterboard. They cut it with a jigsaw or a construction knife.
