Gypsum brick

Simple neostukukaturennye brick walls are increasingly used in the interior, but not always suitable for this natural masonry, present in the house. In old buildings can be used red brick of poor quality, which does not have a good fortress and crumbles at hand. For this reason, people apply a variety of tiles and artificial stone for finishing works. Alternatively, gypsum brick for interior finishing, which has many positive qualities, can serve. By purchasing this material, you can quickly give the surrounding environment a respectable and unusually cozy look.

Advantages of gypsum brick for interior works

1. Gypsum brick consists exclusively of safe components.
2. Gypsum has excellent heat-insulating properties.
3. This material can be used to soundproof the room.
4. Gypsum brick does not burn and can withstand heating up to 70 °, so it is suitable for facing the fireplace.
5. Decorating with gypsum allows you to quickly create a good climate in the house, maintain a normal level of humidity and temperature.
6. Installation work with gypsum brick is easy to produce without much expense, no more difficult than with ordinary tiles.
7. The cost of this building material is quite acceptable in comparison with decorative panels and ceramic tiles.
8. In the interior, gypsum brick looks very presentable and interesting.
9. Now there is an opportunity to purchase material with different texture. For example, many manufacturers mimic not only the new European brick, but also old types of red clay brick, which are unusually attractive in the style of Provence or country .

Gypsum brick in the interior

This building material is used for partial or continuous lining of the wall surface inside an apartment or a private house. You can use gypsum brick in combination with wallpaper, decorative plaster, panels. Most often, they do not finish all the walls, but only one selected wall, making it accentuated. Doorways or arches decorated with gypsum brick are also quite interesting. Such a decorative frame is able to replace the standard wooden platbands, significantly changing the atmosphere in the room.

Gypsum brick is suitable for facing niches, to create a spectacular frame around the mirrors. In addition, this material is often used for facing external corners, which often suffer from mechanical damage or are contaminated for various reasons during operation. Gypsum tiles are able not only to serve as decorations, but also to fulfill the role of a resistant protective coating. Refractory properties of a brick made of gypsum can be used by people who have a fireplace or stove in the house. It will serve you well for decorating the wall surface in the furnace area or for arranging excellent fireplace shelves.

How to lay gypsum decorative bricks?

1. First you should clean the surface of old plaster, wallpaper, dirt. If you are dealing with porous concrete walls, then you need to cover them with a primer. Old brickwork is better after cleaning plaster. Walls made of drywall, or plywood must be primed. On the wooden surface, it is desirable to glue the "spider web" (fiberglass) after the priming and then plaster it.
2. Pencil produce markup, carefully drawing horizontal lines.
3. For laying, it is better to use special glue on a gypsum base - "Perlix-Knauf" "Gypsolite", Monte Alba.
4. The spatula is applied to the walls.
5. Press the bricks into the glue, and use the excess solution to fill the seams.
6. Usually gripping gypsum brick occurs in 30 minutes, during this time we clean the walls and process the seams.
7. To improve the appearance, it is possible to finish the gypsum tiles with lacquer at the end, which helps significantly improve the durability of the decorative surface and its appearance.