The device is a decorative fireplace from plasterboard

For a long time, fireplaces have ceased to be bulky brick structures that are used to heat a home. Now they are increasingly used for decorative purposes, and heating is due to electricity. More and more people live in city apartments where it is impossible to establish a real fireplace, and it is not necessary. Therefore, electrical analogs are established or imitations are created from various materials. In the latter case, the most popular material for creating such an element of decor is drywall.

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• 1. The advantages of decorative fireplaces from GCR
• 2. Varieties of false fireplaces
• 3. Design and Dimensioning
• 4. Assembly and mounting frame
• 5. Gypsocratone plating
• 6. Features of corner fireplaces
• 7. Step by step instruction
• 8. Finishing - the last stage

The advantages of decorative fireplaces from GKL

Make a decorative fireplace with your own hands from drywall for two reasons:

1. Protect the room from heat sources and increase their efficiency. In this case, a special device is purchased that is powered from the electrical grid and simulates a flame, but gives off heat. In this case, fireproof drywall is used for the fireplace.
2. For decorating the interior with a fake fireplace without a heat source. For plating fit any GCR.

Regardless of the reason, you can create a fireplace from your own hands, because the order of work will be the same. The creation of such a design has several advantages:

• security. The absence of an open flame and the use of GKLOs reduce the risk of fire to a minimum;
• Homemade drywall fireplace has a simple design. Although you can create such complex projects that can occupy a huge area;
• use GCR allows you to create any form of fireplace, even the most bizarre. You can even create a chimney construction;
• the size of the room does not play a big role, because the installation of the structure can be carried out in any place, even in a corner;
• lining can be carried out using any materials.

Varieties of false fireplaces

All falle fireplaces can be divided into three categories: authentic, conditional and symbolic. Having understood which of the options you are interested in, you can begin to implement it.

Decorative chimney gives greater reliability of the whole structure.

Reliable fireplaces are made so that they are an exact copy of the original designs . If this option is used outside the apartment, you never think that it is an imitation. A characteristic feature of such structures is the use of fireboxes, where various types of fuel are burned. Imitation is so good that it has the appropriate size and design principles. Such a fireplace made of plasterboard in the interior can look very massive, and it is rational to install it in a cottage where there are large rooms.

Very popular design false fireplace

The portal for the fireplace do-it-yourself plasterboard can be attributed to the conventional form . Such a construction always intends to protrude significantly from the wall, and they are created with a flue hole where wood or other decorative elements are usually put. Most often, this view is combined with conventional electric fireplaces.

By itself, this design will not look beautiful

Symbolic designs are used only for decorative purposes and do not carry the function of heating the room . Such a decorative fireplace with a plasterboard is made only for beauty.

Do not forget about your imagination. Nothing prevents to take as a basis the usual battery and sheathe her gypsum board. Such an imitation of a drywall fireplace will have a decorative and heating function. You can even impose on the battery of stones, hiding it from his eyes. In this embodiment, the radiator should not be under the window. But the point is to include your imagination, and not just mindlessly follow the instructions found.

Design and Dimensioning

Before you make a fireplace out of drywall with your own hands you need to properly prepare. First you need to decide on the place. In fact, there are only two options, the frontal part of the wall or the corner. Next, we will consider the classic construction near the wall, and consider the corner option a little later.

Only when a place is selected, can you approach the measurement. Since there are ready-made drawings and measurements made, it is possible to work on the model, without doing routine calculations. If you do everything yourself, you need to know the size of the electric heater (if it will be used). In addition, you should consider what will be the width, height and depth of the future product. It may be worthwhile to provide a niche for decorative wood or a decorative chimney. Possible sizes of false gypsum fireplace:

Having the dimensions of a future construction, it is possible to calculate how much a profile, fastener and a gypsum board will be required. Once again we recall that heat-resistant gypsum board is needed for a fireplace only if there is a heating element inside the created structure. Otherwise, suitable material for finishing the metal frame.

To make it easier to work, you need to make a drawing of a fireplace out of drywall with dimensions. After that, the dimensions can be transferred to the wall so that you can see exactly where to mount the frame. At this stage, you will need a level (ideally a laser one) so that the finished design does not turn out to be skewed. By the way, for work you will need the following tools and fasteners:

• level to create a level design;
• metal guide profile to create a frame;
• metal shears for cutting the profile;
• tape measure for various measurements;
• electric drill and dowels for fastening the frame to the wall;
• gypsum plasterboard;
• knife for cutting GKL according to specified dimensions;
• screwdriver and screws for fastening the frame elements between themselves and drywall to the profile.

Additionally, you will need materials for finishing (spatula, putty, tape for joints and facing material). At the very end, we will consider the question of how to finish a drywall fireplace.

Assembly and mounting frame

There should be a marking on the wall and on the floor so that it is clear where the framework for the fireplace will be installed from the drywall with your own hands. For its assembly can be used rack or guide profiles. You can assemble the frame separately, and then attach it to the wall, but it is better not to resort to this method. You can miss with a hit in the markup, and it is inconvenient to mount the entire bulky structure. Better to do everything consistently. It is necessary to do the fireplaces with your own hands from the drywall step by step, and not to try to combine several stages into one or jump over them.

It is desirable to provide a stand in the frame

First of all, the guides are attached to the wall and to the floor. To do this, you need to outline the places of their fixation, after which the drill drills the holes, and the profiles are attached to the wall and to the floor with dowels. It is not necessary to cut the profile into many pieces, because it can be cut with scissors, and then just bend at a right angle. In this case, the guide on the floor and wall will be the same, and you will not need to worry that everything will be installed on the same line.

Vertical guides are checked by a plumb, so that they are fixed exactly. Ideally use a laser level.

In the guide profiles on the floor racks are inserted, which are mounted with metal screws. These racks go from the lower profiles to the top, where they will be fixed in guides that are mounted parallel to the profile on the floor. You should get some kind of parallelepiped, if you build the simplest design. This will be the main frame in which you still need to make a place to insert the heater. Drawing a false fireplace from drywall will help in this.

Option frame without mounting to the floor

Jumpers between racks are installed at the height at which the electric fireplace will be installed. One of the guide profiles at this height is attached to the wall. It turns out a quadrilateral, which will be the bottom of a niche. For greater reliability, you can add a few jumpers inside this rectangle (relevant for heavy heaters). All other frame elements are assembled in the same way. For example, you can create a drywall fireplace box that will simulate a chimney.

Gypsocratone plating

A wooden countertop can be installed on top of the fireplace.

The gypsum board should be cut out so that it can be used to sheath the assembled frame. It is not difficult to guess how the structure to sheathe drywall. Just take plasterboard sheets and fix them with screws. Facing the fireplace with drywall with your own hands begins with a niche for electric fireplace, into which it is then inserted. If mistakes were made, then you may have to rebuild part of the structure. If the fireplace came in fine, then take it out and continue to work.

After covering the internal space of the structure, it is necessary to move to the external one. We fasten everything with small screws in increments of 15 cm. The procedure is quite standard and ordinary. Do not forget that the caps of the screws must be flush (do not protrude and not be too much depressed). Now you know how to make a false fireplace from drywall, but that's not all.

It is possible to provide specially double walls for the furnace hole (if it will be used for its intended purpose). Non-combustible insulation is placed between these walls to heat the room more efficiently.

Features Corner Fireplaces

I would like to dwell on the option of installing a fireplace in the corner. This method has both advantages and disadvantages. Talk about the benefits:

• You can save space, since in the corner the footprint is smaller.
• The space used is the corner of the room, and usually the corners are empty.
• Less material consumption and less cost for the whole structure.
• Looks original and stylish.

Unfortunately, the corner false fireplace with drywall will also have drawbacks. There is not always a free angle of sufficient size so that there is no window with a radiator. Even if the window is far away, then there are curtains that will interfere. Therefore, always the two corners in the room can not be used.

Chimney imitation will not steal the place and will look stylish

The remaining two corners are usually formed by the part of the wall where the doors are located. For some people, if a drywall decorative corner fireplace is located in such a place, then this is unacceptable from the point of view of room design.

Step-by-step instruction

For the most part, the creation of corner fake fireplaces from GCR is not much different from the above procedure for frontal structures. The main difference in the form of the frame.

Do-It-Yourself Corner Fireplace - Step-by-Step Instruction:

1. Size calculation. You need to take into account everything. For example, a heating pipe that runs along the corner of a wall that needs to be hidden. It can prevent to assemble a solid frame. If the battery is hidden, then you should definitely provide a design feature that allows you to easily reach it if necessary. When assembling a corner fireplace made of plasterboard, the dimensions of all elements must be carefully considered.
2. Mounted frame. To do this, fit the cheapest profile or the one with which it is most convenient to work. There are no special requirements for guides.
3. Provide wiring. This may be sockets or wiring for lighting the finished design. Especially extra lighting is relevant if the work is carried out with a large frame.
4. The frame is sheathed with sheets of drywall.
5. Lining is being finished.

Here's how to make a drywall fireplace yourself. You just need to follow the sequence of work in the instructions.

Finishing - the last stage

The fireplace should fit harmoniously into the interior of the room where it is installed. Therefore, it is important to choose the right finish. The most popular materials for such works are decorative brick, ceramic tile and artificial stone. However, for these purposes they often use ordinary paint.

With proper finishing, no one will guess about the use of drywall

Before painting the drywall fireplace, it is plastered, making all surfaces smooth. Then everything is painted twice with water-based paint with a brush. For other types of finishes, you will have to use plaster compositions so that nothing falls off. All this greatly increases the weight of the structure. So you need to know in advance whether the drywall will be faced with ceramic tiles (stone) or not.

It is not so difficult to make a fireplace in an apartment with your own hands out of drywall, as it may seem. The main thing is to carry out calculations and use the level, do not forget about the jumpers and the finishing finish.