How to make an arch in an apartment with your own hands from plasterboard

Modern repair trends are so limitless that it is impossible to know them all. Quite often in our articles we tell you about different ways and technologies of repair. This time we decided to talk about such a popular design as an arch, or rather how to make it yourself.

The article will consist of the following blocks:

• How to make an arch in the wall


• How to draw an arc arch


• How to make a doorway an arch


• How to make an arch of plasterboard in a wall


• How to make an arch finish in a wall

An arch is a very versatile design. Firstly, it looks more beautiful in the wall opening than a regular rectangular opening or rectangular door. Secondly, with the help of the arch, you can build a partition with a passage, delimit zones in the room or make a beautiful passage into the room. Thus, the arch is a universal solution for many tasks. On the construction of the arch, then our team of journalists of the site Vse-Sekrety.ru will tell you in more detail.

How to make an arch in the wall

If you want to make a passage in the form of an arch in the wall, then you need to first check what material the wall is made of and whether it is a carrier. If a wall of concrete, and it is a carrier, then making an arch in it will be problematic, so it's better to postpone this venture. Why? In order to make a hole in the wall, it is necessary to make a design and get permission, and in addition to making an arch in a concrete wall it is very difficult physically. But if the arch is an integral part of your future interior, then agree on this issue, then proceed to its solution. If the wall is not capital, then it will not be difficult to make an arch in it.

So, if in the case of the capital wall all the work will be described in the project documentation, then we will tell you how to make an arch in a non-bearing wall. If you need to make an arch in a wall of foam concrete or aerated concrete, then for this we outline the contours of the archway on the wall from two sides. How to make the contours of the opening on both sides? First, mark the wall on one side, then make through holes in the wall in place of the marks, so they will be transferred to the wall on the other side. After that, connect the so-called control marks with a marker or chalk.

Then proceed to the opening. In principle, you can make a hole in the wall in two ways: knock out, or cut a part of the wall. In the first case, that is, knock out an opening in the wall, you can use parts with a hammer and chisel, or with a perforator. You can cut a foam concrete or aerated concrete wall with an ordinary hacksaw, first making a hole in the wall so that the canvas passes through it. Please note that before carrying out the work, it is necessary to make sure that no electrical cable passes through this section of the wall. When the opening is cut out or knocked out, its edges can be trimmed accurately with a hacksaw.

Separately, a few words about how to make an arch in a brick wall. It is not so difficult to knock out some of the bricks from the wall, but you need to understand that the upper part of the bricks can simply fall, so it must be supplemented with something in addition. To do this, we recommend to build a metal frame around the perimeter of the arch, which will fix the upper part of the wall, while creating an even surface inside the arch and equal angles from the outside. In order to make an arch in the wall for the doors, use all the tips that we gave just above.



How to draw arc arch

For sure, many of you, our dear readers, will ask the question: how to draw arc arch. Some people are looking for some arc-shaped object that can be traced - this can be done, but this will create unnecessary problems. We want to tell you about the whiter simple way. In order to draw an arc of the arch, both on the wall and on the materials of its decoration, it is enough to take a pencil or any other writing object and rope. In the part where the arch will begin to bend, in the middle we apply the thread and hold it by hand, to the other end we tie the pencil in advance, stretch the thread, set the pencil exactly and draw an arc-shaped line. Thus, you will get an arched arc marking.

How to make a doorway an arch

The next question that we will consider: how to make an arch of plasterboard in the doorway. If you decide to remove a rectangular door or make an arch-type door, then this is also nothing complicated - you can easily do it yourself. First, you need to dismantle the door and the latch, then proceed to the arch. When the doorway is prepared, using the above described methods, we put an arc line on the wall and then, based on it, we cut out or cut out the opening for the arch. Then you will need to trim the edges of the arch in order to strengthen the door box, otherwise on an uneven surface it will be difficult.

How to make an arch of plasterboard in the wall

Very often, many apartment owners for the partition construct decorative arches from plasterboard. In fact, this is the most logical option, and if you have experience in installing drywall, then you can do with it a partition in the form of an arch.

For the installation of the arch-partition you will need to clean this place from the finishing materials. Then, if there are no protruding objects, proceed with the installation of the gypsum board guides. If you want to make an arch to a perpendicular wall, then the width of the archway should be equal to the width of this wall. To begin with, you need to mount the frame of the arch from the metal profiles. Mount the profiles to the wall, to the floor and to the ceiling on the dowel-nails. If the width of the walls of the partition exceeds 20 cm, then strengthen the structure with additional transverse profiles. In shape, the side frame should remind you of a ladder. Connect the profiles together with screws. Then mount the frame for the central part of the arch. The frame of the arc is made with the help of a profile, after making two notches and bending it after every 1-2 cm. After this, proceed to cutting gypsum board sheets and mounting them to the frame.



How to make the arches in the wall

Now let's look at the ways of finishing the arch. You can decorate the arch in the wall in several ways. The most common way of leveling an arch made in a wall or in a rectangular doorway is with plasterboard and metal paint angles. To do this, cut a piece of plasterboard with a width equal to the width of the archway. In order to cover the inside of the arch, the cut pieces of gypsum board must be bent in places of arch bends. To bend drywall it is simple enough, for this purpose that part which will be bent, it is necessary to process a needle roller and after that to process a surface water. Then gradually bend the gypsum board until you have the right bending vector. If the inner side parts of the arch have significant unevenness, then they must be leveled. Further on the inner parts of the arch, put plaster plaster, so that the plasterboard, which you will make the finish of the arch, densely pressed against the wall, and there were no voids inside. In addition, the plasterboard is fixed to the wall using dowels and screws.

As for the corners of the arch, they can be done with the help of paint angles, putting them on the plaster, with which you can finish the plasterboard panels.

In addition, the finish of the arch can be made completely with plaster, without the use of drywall, if the unevenness of the wall is insignificant. In addition, the arch can be finished with wooden panels or with stucco molding. A long enough arched opening is decorated with various lights.