IN modern apartments and houses, the corners are often not straight, but rounded. This makes installation of the plinth somewhat difficult. However, there are special technologies, along which you can bend both a wooden and hard plastic or even foam model.
In addition, today we sell flexible floor or ceiling plinths made of soft plastic, polyurethane and even rubber. If you don’t want to bother with bending the slats, you can purchase just this option or order a radius one.
How to bend a floor plinth?
So, you don’t want to use a flexible polyurethane floor plinth or a model made of some other similar elastic material, but prefer to install a regular wooden or plastic one. In this case, the production of a semicircular version for the floor is usually entrusted to a specialist. However, you can try to round off the desired bar yourself.
For installation on curved walls, rounded decor is used
How to round wood planks
In order to bend a wooden plank, it is first steamed. Water is poured into a basin and placed on the fire. The bar should warm up and steam over a stream of steam for half an hour. How to bend a wooden plinth:
- You can round the bar by hanging it and securing some weight on both sides;
- Sometimes a special device is used:
You can round the element using a special device
- You can also attach two bars to the floor at a certain distance from each other and insert a wooden strip between them.
How to round a baseboard made of very hard wood? In this case, the plank will most likely have to be cut into several pieces, fixed to the wall and transitions installed between them.
If you cannot bend the plinth, you need to cut it into pieces
How to round a hard plastic model
Now let's see how to bend plastic skirting board. You can round it using the technology described above for wood. Sometimes they also use a slightly different method. At the same time, with reverse side the slats are notched. Next, it is heated with a hair dryer.
Plastic models can be rounded in the same way as wooden ones
Important: The heated bar must be rounded and immediately installed in place, without waiting for the material to cool. When doing this, you should be careful not to break it.How to bend a ceiling fillet
If you do not want to use a flexible ceiling plinth, you can try bending foam or polystyrene foam.
Semicircular ceiling plinth also has to be used quite often
The foam baguette should not actually be bent, but very carefully rounded, squeezing in small sections. After the inflexible, fragile fillet takes the desired shape, it is coated with glue and pressed tightly to the wall surface, secured with small nails for reliability.
You can bend the foam model by gently creasing it along the length
To make it clearer how to round the foam, we suggest you watch this video:
How to make a plinth in a semicircle if the bending arc has too small a radius? In this case, a foam fillet, like a wooden fillet, is cut into several pieces, which are mounted on a curved corner.
Pieces of foam fillet
Important: The joints between the pieces must be filled with putty or white silicone sealant. Next, the seams are carefully sanded. The resulting radius plinth can be painted with white or colored paint.Flexible floor and ceiling decor
It is still quite difficult to round a plinth at home without some experience. It is easier to complement the floor finishing using a bendable plinth.
Flexible floor or ceiling plinth is very easy to bend
There are several varieties of them:
- Rubber. May have very bright colors;
- Cork flexible;
- Soft flexible PVC skirting board. It will work very well for a round wall. Sold wound on spools;
- Liquid tree. After some time after installation on a curved surface, it hardens, maintaining the resulting shape.
- Flexible polyurethane plinth. Can have a variety of colors. A flexible polyurethane version for painting is also sold.
Flexible polyurethane ceiling plinth is very easy to bend
How exactly to mount the plinth on a corner, if it is rounded, or on a column, is, of course, up to you to decide. If you are confident in your abilities, buy regular rigid decor and try to bend it. If you don’t have enough experience, purchase flexible skirting boards for the floor or ceiling.
Frame the room well rectangular shape. But what if you have a non-standard room: with columns, semicircular walls, or a stretch ceiling of complex configuration?
A flexible floor and ceiling plinth will suit you. With their help, you can hide minor imperfections in repairs, uneven surfaces, and also frame round designs.
You will learn about the types of flexible skirting boards, methods of bending and fastening them from this article.
Flexible baguettes: their features
If the design of your apartment includes semicircular or non-standard decorative elements, you will need a flexible ceiling plinth. It will not just decorate the ceiling, but will perfectly decorate suspended round structures and hide defects and irregularities at the junction of the ceiling and walls.
Flexible plinth for the ceiling will highlight all the advantages of the room
Sharp corners can cause anxiety and aggression. If you decide to create a calm atmosphere in the room, to give the room softness, use a semicircular plinth in its design.
Curved plank options
How to bend floor and ceiling baguettes correctly
During the renovation process, many people have a reasonable question: how to bend the baseboard to give it the shape of a circle? Depending on the material used to make the baguette, it can be bent in several ways:
- making several cuts with back side fillets. After this, they try to see if the baguette bends. If necessary, additional cuts are made to bend the product;
- cutting into small pieces and combining them on a semicircular profile;
- by heat treatment. The product is heated with a hair dryer, bent, and then cooled in cold water to secure the bend;
- forming a semicircle by cutting off the stiffeners on the back side of the product.
Semicircular radius plinth in the interior
Materials for the manufacture of flexible fillets
Polyurethane baguettes are most often used to frame ceilings. A flexible polyurethane baseboard can bend in any direction. The product can be tried on several times and used to decorate semicircular elements - columns, arches, bay windows.
Flexible polyurethane floor plinth will beautifully decorate ceilings in a semicircle
Remember: Products made from polyurethane bend better than products made from polystyrene foam.How to round a wooden plinth so that it does not crack? To do this, it should be steamed first. After just half an hour of exposure to hot steam, the wooden baguette will become pliable for transformation. When the product bends and takes the required shape, it must be fixed until completely dry. This can be done by applying a load, or by making a special form.
Rounding a wood plank - radius bending
How to bend a plastic baseboard? By heating with a hairdryer or hot water, you can also bend a PVC baguette. When exposed to temperatures above 80 degrees, it will become pliable and soft, capable of taking any shape.
The curved PVC floor molding is fastened with glue or self-tapping screws in a circle, and plastic components are installed at the corner and joints.
PVC product, example of how to make a plinth in a semicircle
Advice: When heating the fillet with a hairdryer, be careful not to overheat the product so that it does not become deformed.Special bendable fillets for ceiling and floor
The simplest type of semicircular frame is flexible PVC tape. It is self-adhesive and can be folded in half to form an even angle.
Tape products are available in different color scheme, this is the perfect plinth for a round wall
If you need a high-quality bendable plinth, then good decision there will be a composite wood-filled edging. It is manufactured according to the latest technologies by injection molding and pressing.
Flexible plinth for wood-filled floors
An innovative product for decorating round elements is a flexible PVC floor plinth. It is not exposed to ultraviolet radiation, moisture, solvents, does not burn and comes in different colors. These baguettes bend perfectly and are therefore suitable for columns, framing semicircular podiums, and bay windows.
Soft plastic baguette bends smoothly
To form a curved shape, the product is heated to 70 degrees, and then they begin to smoothly bend along the required radius. If it hardens, it is heated in hot water and continue the semicircular edging.
Non-standard design solutions will help to implement a flexible cork edging. Fastening to the walls is carried out using glue, which allows you to bend around even round columns.
Flexible cork floor plinth
Bottom line
If the interior of the room contains columns, bay windows, or semicircular projections, then you can use ready-made bending skirting boards to frame them, or you can bend the floor and ceiling edging yourself. Flexible framing will add style and softness to the room, making it more cozy, individual, and comfortable.
Sometimes curved walls in a room or the presence of columns do not allow the use of an ordinary straight plinth for both the floor and the ceiling. And in this case, we have three ways to solve the problem: order semicircular wooden skirting boards, buy flexible ones made of plastic, and bend ordinary, straight ones.
Next, we will tell you how to bend a plastic or wooden baseboard, and also touch a little on the topic of ready-made flexible moldings.
How to round a baseboard with your own hands
You may not be able to make a plinth for a round wall the first time. This is normal, since in any task that requires skill, you first need to “get your teeth into it” and practice. Therefore, if you are thinking about how to bend a plinth with your own hands, then be prepared to damage several moldings during the first tests.
Making a semicircular molding
The manufacturing method, which will be described below, is suitable for moldings made of polyurethane, PVC and duropolymer. From the tools you need to prepare a hacksaw and construction hair dryer— you can rent it in some cities. In principle, if the molding is thin, then an ordinary hair dryer with a power of 1500-2000W will make it flexible.
To bend, we need to make triangular cuts on the back of the molding. We make the distance between them from 2.5 to 5 cm, depending on how much the molding needs to be bent. We make the cuts so that there is approximately 0.5 cm left to the edge.
How to make a plinth in a semicircle: make cuts from the back side
- We heat up the molding so that the bridges remaining in the cuts become flexible. We heat it carefully, from the back side of the molding. We carefully ensure that outer side did not deform from high temperature.
- When the baguette warms up well and becomes flexible, it must be carefully but quickly bent. The plastic cools down quite quickly, so you shouldn’t hesitate at this stage.
Next, we hold the profile in a semicircular state until it cools down and ceases to be flexible. Now you can begin installing the molding on the floor or ceiling.
Bendable baseboard. This effect is achieved by heating the plastic
Making semicircular wooden baguettes
But here everything is more complicated. You cannot make cuts, but the method we propose to use will allow you to bend the profile quite a bit. However, if you only need to adjust the baseboard to uneven wall, then this option is quite suitable.
First we prepare spacers for the wooden profile. To do this, take a board and draw a semicircle of the future bend on it. Now on both sides of the line we screw or nail the spacers themselves. These can be, for example, long nails. You can also come up with your own version. The spacers repeat the future semicircle of the profile and are located in checkerboard pattern, as in the diagram below.
Spacers required to make the baseboard semicircular
Now we need to steam the baguette to make the plinth for the ceiling or floor flexible and give it a semicircular shape. The easiest way is to boil a pot of water on the stove and hold the profile over it. How long it takes for the molding to become flexible depends on the type of wood. This moment can be determined by touch; when you try to bend the profile, it will begin to give in.
After the wood has steamed and become flexible, we remove it from the steam and place it in the semicircle of spacers that we prepared earlier. Here the profile should remain until the wood dries completely. Ideally, we steam the planks in the evening and leave them bent in a semicircle until the morning. After drying, the bent profile can be installed in the intended place.
We make a flexible ceiling plinth from a wooden profile
Buying ready-made moldings
On sale you can find ready-made flexible skirting boards for floors and ceilings. They are made from different materials:
- Polyurethane floor plinth, flexible.
- Soft molding and PVC plinth tape.
- Flexible floor plinth made of cork, semicircular, bent.
Flexible polyurethane plinth has the optimal combination of price and quality and is used quite often. Skirting tape is relatively inexpensive, but it is difficult to install and not every type of adhesive is suitable for it. It is most often used for the bathroom. Flexible cork floor plinth is the most expensive of these three types, but its advantage is the naturalness of the material and excellent appearance.
Flexible plinth, floor, cork
The radius bent plinth is made from natural wood. It is almost impossible to buy such moldings ready-made, since they are made according to the radius of a certain bend of a wall or column. Therefore, this decor is purchased, as a rule, to order, and it cannot be classified as cheap. However, bent semicircular moldings made of wood undoubtedly outperform plastic in terms of appearance, so all time and financial costs will be justified.
Radius plinth at an angle, round, bent
Do you like the smoothness that rounded shapes give to the interior? Then you need to know how to bend ceiling plinth flawlessly, without spending special effort. Let's consider the main points and tricks, without which it is impossible to create a beautiful circle from ceiling fillets.
Radius Framing Ideas
So where are rounded ceiling borders used? Most often they are installed around columns, bay windows, decorative ceiling elements, interior designs of various modifications, for example, as in the photo below.
Also, often, bendable ceiling plinth is used as an interior element. With its help, they create interesting decorative objects on the ceiling.
If desired, you can also decorate the wall with a ceiling border. Decorative interior frames will breathe the charm of long-forgotten ballrooms into any room. At the same time, making them yourself is not so difficult.
Once inspired by the ideas, you can safely begin choosing ceiling moldings and installing them.
Which type is the most flexible?
We are faced with the design of circles on the ceiling, and a lot of questions immediately arise: “How to bend it, maybe you need special fillets, or should you hire an expensive professional?”
Let's start with the material. There are different ones not only in manufacturing method, texture and color, but also in material. The last classification point plays decisive role when purchasing a baguette for radius design.
- Polystyrene have an interesting shiny surface. They favorably emphasize suspended ceilings of any design. But such fillets are very dense, rigid and inflexible. When you try to bend them in one of the ways, they break.
- found in modern interiors rare, and cannot be found in store windows at all. They are ordered individually, and if you need to make a radius, then such elements are made in accordance with the required shapes and sizes.
- , or to be more precise, stucco molding is also not sold in hardware stores. It is usually done by hand in silicone molds, which you can also make yourself. With the help of this plastic and quickly hardening mass, it is possible to create real masterpieces.
- Available with various embossing and in all kinds of tint solutions. In addition, they are flexible and easy to install. But at the same time they are very easy to break. Most often they are installed in bathrooms.
- Polyurethane - have a mix of positive qualities - flexibility, moisture resistance, beautiful noble surface, ease of installation and self-processing.
- – plugs for suspended ceilings. They are sold in rolls. Despite the exotic nature of the source material, they look beautiful and elegant. Such fillets are intended for suspended ceilings and can take any shape without much effort. The disadvantages include their small width, which negatively affects high ceilings and their considerable cost.
They are very popular for decorating radius parts on the ceiling. polyurethane skirting boards. With their help you can create any shape. Yes and low price in comparison with plaster and wooden moldings, it is more attractive than the prospect of making the interior unique.
Self-registration
Self-repair is an everyday matter and not so rare. Especially the finishing touches, such as gluing ceiling molding remains as a “snack” for the owners. The instructions below will tell you how to bend a border with your own hands.
Technologies
It is not so difficult to turn a bending baguette into a beautiful rounded interior element. So: how to bend a polystyrene foam product? You won't realize it right away.
Let's consider ways that will help in this delicate matter:
- Method 1. Incisions
A simpler rounded shape can be decorated with a baguette curved in this way. This is done quite simply - small cuts are made on the back side, so that the molding can take on a rounded shape.
- Method 2. Heat treatment
Another option for radius bending is heat treatment. Polyurethane moldings lend themselves perfectly to it. When heated, they turn into a very plastic material, comparable in flexibility to rubber. While the baguette is in this condition, it can be easily glued to the desired place.
- Method 3. “Constructor”
Ceiling fillets can also be cut into small components, which together repeat the shape of a circle. This is not easy to do, and only professionals can do it. An example of how it looks in reality is clearly demonstrated by the floor plinth in the photo below.
- Method 4. Modeling
And last but not least effective way creating a rounded shape - cutting off the stiffeners on the back side and gluing regular tape. Such fillets are capable of repeating not just a rounded shape, but also any other, even the most complex modification.
If you haven’t decided yet how you will bend the ceiling plinth, the video below will clearly demonstrate the available types of processing.
Installation
Gluing a curved element does not require special adhesive compositions or technologies. They can also be mounted on liquid nails, glue, mastic or special compounds intended for this purpose.
Attention! In order for the baguette to have better adhesion to the wall, treat it with a primer throughout the entire process. The exception is when molding is installed on wallpaper.
If you need to fix a curved plinth, you can do it with masking tape, which firmly holds such a light decorative element and leaves no traces after removal. If the adhesive comes out during installation, it must be removed immediately, as it has the unpleasant property of leaving unsightly stains on the surface.
In principle, these are the basic rules that lift the curtain on how to bend molding. If you have never done such work, take an unnecessary piece of fillet and experiment - after all, luck smiles on the most persistent and courageous!
On at the moment we produce plinths in 4 colors (wenge, oak, maple, mahogany)
If you need a small amount of plinth, we can try to select from the remnants of those colors that were made previously or to order (oak, cherry, beech, mahogany, maple, pine, pear)
| Pear | Oak | Cherry | Beech | Mahogany | Maple | Wenge (on order) | Pine |
!!! When ordering 50 or more plinths, get a discount of 50 rubles per stick.
* Attention! The baseboard colors may appear differently on different monitors...
Price list for flexible plinth
| № | Name | Material | Size mm | Length mm | Price per stick | Order |
| 1 | Skirting | Wood-plastic | 50 | 2500 | 600 rub. | |
| 2 | Skirting | Wood-plastic | 60 | 2500 | 700 rub. | |
| 3 | Skirting | Wood-plastic | 70 | 2500 | 800 rub. |
NOTE - To obtain the wenge color, we paint the plinth with a special heat-resistant paint- execution 5 working days. The cost of painting one strip of skirting board in wenge color is 300 rubles.
We produce plinths in 3 design options:
* 50mm high. This skirting board and bottom are symmetrical. Floor overlap about 25mm
* 60mm high. Its shape is as close as possible to ordinary plastic skirting boards. Floor overlap is about 17mm
* 70mm high. The most stylish of our line, it looks more like a border. The overlap on the floor is about 10mm.
Our floor plinth is easy to use. It glues, saws and planes perfectly. This plinth, like a regular wooden one, is attached with nails or on, so it will not be difficult for you to install it indoors. It is not flammable and is not affected by moisture. Therefore, our company invites you to make a choice in favor of plastic, which looks no less aesthetically pleasing than natural wood. You will also surely be pleased affordable prices on such a plinth.
When installing on curved walls, the plinth should be heated to a temperature of +70 degrees Celsius and bent along the desired radius or curve. After cooling, it will become rigid, completely retaining its given shape. You can bend it using an industrial hair dryer.
Plastic plinth is used to give a finished look to the following floor coverings: laminate, linoleum and carpeting. In the room, a plastic plinth fits into the interior just as organically as a wooden one. The flexible PVC skirting board we offer is manufactured in accordance with international standards and standards applicable to building materials. In addition, you will be pleasantly surprised by the affordable prices for our plastic flexible plinth.
Bendable floor plinth for columns and not only from composite material
During repairs, many people often ask the question “how to bend a print”?
If you need a bendable skirting board, then the only solution is our composite wood-filled skirting board. The cost of our plinth is much lower than its wooden counterparts, but its consumer properties are superior to them. If you turn a flexible wooden plinth into a bendable one, or most likely you need to bend the plinth, then such a pleasure will cost you no less than 3,000 rubles per meter and quite a long time for its manufacture and installation. By the way, the cost of installation by specialists will cost no less than 2500-3000 rubles per linear meter For example wooden plinth for columns.
A revolutionary solution in the field of interior design is our flexible plintflex plinth costing from 140 to 180 rubles per linear meter. Its ease of use makes it easy to install. It is easy and simple to bend plintflex plinth, using a simple industrial non-professional hair dryer with a power of 1000 watts (or a regular hair dryer) it is heated in the place where it is necessary to make the bend, softening it to a state of free vibration. Then it is applied to the surface of the bend, allowing it to cool for 1.5 minutes. Once cooled, the bendable plinth remains in the shape it was given. It is then glued with liquid nails to the wall surface.
The flexible plinth can be tinted and painted after bending in any colors and shades with varnishes and paints for wooden surfaces.
Many people are looking for a way to go around a column with a plinth, to lay the plinth in an arc in a bay window, and the only solution is to use plintflex bendable plinth for this.
No matter what they say, these boring plastic skirting boards with cable channels look like a cheap solution for apartments not for those you love. All these plugs, corners, connecting elements that fly off with a light touch of a vacuum cleaner, fall off over time, and generally do not look aesthetically pleasing. They are a collector of dust and dirt. Needless to say, a cheap solution for a cheap interior!
We sell our bendable plinth not much more expensive than a plastic hollow plinth, but by installing it even on flat, straight surfaces you will receive an exceptionally stylish frame for the surfaces in your room. Durable, moisture-resistant and which can be bent in any way - your imagination is now unlimited!
Plastmir invites you to choose our plinth. Today, PVC plastic skirting board is an innovative product used in the field of decorative finishing premises. The plinth is made from a composite material that combines the best consumer qualities of plastic and the naturalness of wood. High-quality soft plinth is not subject to the destructive effects of ultraviolet radiation, solvents and moisture, is not flammable and has very little weight. All this is achieved thanks to the use of special chemical composition– foamed polyvinyl chloride.
Our floor plinth is made from a complex wood-filled plastic composite material.
Designed for framing any surfaces of any radius of curvature.
When joining, the seams are sealed with material from sawing (shavings-powder) of the plinth itself - after grinding, the joint is absolutely not noticeable from a distance of 1 meter. Mounting to walls can be done by any traditional way, similar for fastening wooden skirting boards (nails, self-tapping screws). The places where the self-tapping screws are drowned can be masked with the same shavings from the baseboard itself.
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