Plaster door and window slopes are labor-intensive to manufacture and have low mechanical resistance, and plastic ones often look like lining, which many people don’t like. It’s fresh and original to cover them with laminate scraps. This will allow you to put unnecessary leftover material to good use, save a lot of money and make the slope really beautiful.
Materials:
- Laminate;
- polyurethane foam;
- masking tape;
- decorative plastic corner;
- liquid Nails.
The process of making slopes from laminate residues
It is necessary to measure the depth of the openings and their length in order to cut the laminate for them. It should protrude flush with the wall.
If this is a window, then you should start from the bottom, that is, the window sill. Various scraps are placed under the cut workpiece to level it.
After this, polyurethane foam is applied and the window sill is laid. It must be pressed on top with any weight until the foam sets.
Next you need to glue the laminate on top. To do this, it needs to be laid on something from the side of the frame.In this case, the sash opens horizontally, so it was possible to rest on the linings laid directly on it. In the usual case, you can temporarily glue boards or slats to the window frame with double-sided tape to support the laminate on them.
The foam is blown in only near the frame, where there is the largest gap. From the wall side it is applied close to the opening and fixed with masking tape in increments of 15-20 cm.
It is much easier to glue the side walls of the slopes. It is enough to simply secure them with masking tape. If the rough slopes are crooked, and in some areas it was necessary to apply more foam, then to prevent them from bending, you can spread the sidewalls with slats.
It may not be so easy to glue the laminate onto the door due to the large layer of foam. In this case, a plastic decorative corner should be screwed or glued with liquid nails to their box.
Then the laminate slopes will rest against it on one side, and on the other they will be supported by masking tape, as on the windows.
On the second day, the corner between the laminate and the wall is closed with a plastic corner matched to match. It is glued to liquid nails.
The result is unusual slopes, more rigid than plastic ones, and much stronger than plaster ones.
