How to fix a hole on a stretch ceiling with your own hands?

As before, everything was simple: plaster fell from the ceiling - mixed the mortar, picked up a spatula, covered all this beauty with a little paint and don’t know the worries. Another thing is a hole on a stretch ceiling: this type of decoration is now insanely popular and is found in almost every house, but not everyone can cope with defects in such a ceiling with their own hands. Well, impeccable evenness and dazzling gloss require sacrifice: if you do not want to contact the repair team, you will have to understand the principles of bridging the gap and tinker with the long-suffering canvas.

Are stretch ceilings so fragile?

So what needs to be done to break the stretch ceiling, and is it really so unstable to mechanical stress? In general, stretch ceilings are very durable: if you saw how much water they hold during flooding, then you hardly doubt their elasticity. But due to the strong tension of the canvas, any sharp objects can be fatal for stretch ceilings.

How to protect yourself from tears?

• Buy a quality canvas and hire conscientious workers for the initial installation. Not only the appearance of the structure, but also its durability depends on this.

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By the way, tears for this reason most often occur at the seam and cannot be repaired. In most cases, this is an insured event, and the owners themselves will not have to do anything - just call the company and find out about the conditions for replacing the canvas.

• Continuing repairs after installing suspended ceilings, be careful with construction equipment and decorative elements. So, you can easily pierce the canvas in an attempt to assemble a bed from IKEA, when moving the cabinet or with the sharp edge of the ceiling plinth.
• Hope that your neighbors are not forgetful and will not flood you, ruining the entire stretch ceiling. Although often the water itself does not become destructive to the canvas, but its excessive amount can make a huge breakthrough in the very center due to strong pressure. Even stretch ceilings have a limit of elasticity!
• Refrain from unbridled fun in a room with stretch ceilings and control the games of children and animal behavior. Corks of champagne, darts, throwing toys and parrots outside the cage can cost you the integrity of the ceiling.

But if it so happened that a hole in the ceiling still formed, first of all you need to adequately assess the situation and your strengths: is it really possible to patch without the help of specially trained people?

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If a gap has formed on the fabric ceiling

Let's say right away: even a fabric ceiling that is easy to fix will not save anything if the gap is more than 20-30 cm. Any of the methods listed below will provoke a skew of the canvas, and the patch will be very striking. Although, since you still have to change it, you can even try to close up such a complex hole.

Well, in the case of small holes, you need to follow the instructions.

• Seal the gap with tape or masking tape so that the canvas does not tear further, making it difficult for you to do.
• Remove the ceiling and sew a small gap with silk thin threads in the color of the fabric. Closing a hole in the canopy will be quite difficult, and it’s also more difficult to make an invisible neat seam.
• If the hole is too large for sewing, patch on the inside of the fabric. It can be either sewn or glued.
• Use a small gap to install the luminaire, and if it is not provided at the hole, try closing the problem part with a decorative element.

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A patch or seam will be less noticeable if after repairing the ceiling, cover the canvas with an even layer of paint from an airbrush.

If the ceiling of the PVC film is torn

With film, everything is much more complicated than with fabric: if the whole essence of such a stretch ceiling is in a perfectly even and smooth surface, then even a successful patch is unlikely to bring you a feeling of satisfaction. However, you can try to seal the gap.

• To begin, glue the edges of the hole with tape so that it does not increase.
• If the hole is small (about 2-5 cm), patch it with a patch of PVC film. It must be glued from the inside, so the canvas will have to be dismantled. It is best to make a patch from the remnants of the film from your ceiling, but you can use any other piece, and then paint the canvas with a spray gun.
• For tears up to 10-15 cm from the wall, you can use this trick: remove the canvas from the baguette, heat the film, pull it over the edge of the baguette so that the hole is behind the baguette, remove the excess and re-fix it.
• For large holes farther than 10-15 cm from the wall, you will have to look for a beautiful lamp or make a decorative vinyl patch, which, by the way, may not remind you of the incident at all if you place the applications symmetrically.

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If you decide to use a hole as a hole for a lamp, do not forget to fix it with a thermo ring made of plastic. This must be done very carefully.

If you feel the strength to fix the stretch ceiling with your own hands - go for it! Well, for those who are in doubt it will still be better to turn to the masters who will quickly and without excesses solve your problem.