A fireplace made of drywall 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 retaining part of the family budget. This installation looks stylish, and unlike brick varieties of the fireplace does not require maintenance. She perfectly fits into the design of country houses and city apartments.
Design choice
Before you make a fireplace from the 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. Typically, fireplaces are installed in the bedrooms, living room, lounge and kitchen. Cases are quite common when it is used as a TV stand. Depending on the interior of the room, the fireplace can be designed in hi-tech, English, rustic, modern and classic style.
In order for the design to fit into the style of an apartment or a house, special attention must be paid to the furnace, 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 required decorative element is a shelf. This element gives comfort, space becomes more functional. On the shelves you can put candles, figurines, photographs.
Do-it-yourself portal of a decorative fireplace made of drywall is made using glass. The design with the aquarium looks original.
Advantages of a decorative fireplace
The fireplace, made by hand from drywall, has a fairly extensive list of advantages:
- simplicity of construction;
- any finishing materials can be used for facing - as a rule, the cost of a fireplace depends on the choice of material;
- small financial investments;
- completely safe design, since there are no heat sources in it;
- with the help of 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 possibility of transportation to another place.
Types of drywall fireplaces
Fake fireplaces differ from real fireplaces in the absence of the ability to start a fire in them. The peculiarity of drywall constructions 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 drywall.
- Reliable artificial fireplace visually distinguish from the present is almost impossible. 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, to sew pipes, you have to seek help from specialists in this industry. The authentic fake fireplace portal is equipped with an electric or bio fireplace.
- Corner fake fireplace is the simplest design. It can be done independently 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 at a store or online site and installed at home yourself. The decoration of the room is a blende and a fake.
Starting to manufacture drywall construction, you first need to do all the preparatory and design work.
Preparatory work
Drywall is considered the most versatile building material to date. It’s easy to work with him, he is unpretentious and takes on almost any finishing finish.
For the manufacture of a fireplace, drywall sheets are mounted on a metal profile, after which the resulting structure is finished.
Installation steps:
- Preparatory work, including design design, the acquisition of building materials and the preparation of a working tool.
- Assembling a false fireplace from drywall and a metal profile.
- Finishing work.
Getting started is recommended with a sketch. Sample drawings can be found on the Internet. After the approval of the project, it is necessary to conduct on-site measurement work 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 a metal profile. To assemble the frame, racks and guides will be required. The parts are fastened with self-tapping screws. The design is attached to the wall with self-tapping screws or dowel-nails.
Fireplace installation
When all the preparatory work is completed, you can proceed directly to the construction. The action algorithm should be approximately as follows:
- Draw a drawing of the future structure in kind on the floor and walls in the right place. To make markup by size and level, you need to use special tools.
- By marking, guides are attached to the floors and wall. If the guide needs to be fixed on a concrete wall, the profile is pre-applied to the intended line and holes are made in certain places, then dowels are inserted into them. At the end, a metal guide is reapplied and securely fixed.
- The racks are inserted into the guides and fixed with metal screws. To work with self-tapping screws, a screwdriver is used. When assembling the frame, it is important to ensure that it stands in level, and the racks are strictly upright. The wall may be obstructed or have an uneven surface, so it is not recommended to focus on it.
- To impart rigidity to the structure with an interval of 10-15 cm, jumpers are inserted into the profile.
If the fireplace should have rounded edges, in the right places the profile is cut with metal scissors and bent. In conclusion, the structure is sheathed with drywall. Cut it with a jigsaw or a construction knife.
