Myths of frame houses

Nicholas civilian Prefab house-building technology in our region are becoming increasingly popular. They are regarded as one of the main ways to solve housing problems in rural areas, can build up arrays chalet and cottage settlements. Meanwhile, frame house building is surrounded by many myths and legends. But the matter is that - not the technology itself, but not too experienced builders. However, the myths to exist in order to discredit them. On the pictures shown here - build a country house, the owner of which this summer plans to mark new home, but now has kindly agreed to share with our reporter's own observations. The first myth. The frame house was built by even an amateur Truly, this is the myth that warms the soul of many potential "samozastroyschikam. I also began construction of what went into the bookstore and bought it a portfolio of books dedicated to private housing. Indeed, the market today meets a lot of transferable benefits, telling the Canadian and Finnish construction technology and building online forums (and our and foreign) provide step by step instructions with illustrations. Their main plot - the average family is building a house: here we have cleared the site, set poles, erected the waist, the walls turn came to the rafters ... And here's a housewarming! Meanwhile blindly follow technological schemes translated books - hence, doomed to the problem. It is one thing - the Nevada desert or rocky soils in Scandinavia, is quite another - swampy north-west Russia, with its quicksand and highly distributed groundwater. Unrelated bearing pier foundation will certainly be a walk, and along with them - and the entire skeleton. But the frame problem in our climate, not only walks on the pillars. During the year, it often freezes and thaws, wet and dry. Second. Popular Finns technology "platform", actively promoted in Russia today, is designed for well-dried planed boards. We have to move more often than is natural wood with a moisture content near the base materials. Therefore, outputting perfectly aligned walls, a few months, builders are discovering backlash, biases, distortions, sagging floors and other nuisance. Conclusion. If you are going to build hut no budget, and a home for permanent residence, suspicious of offers builders, offering a frame structure made of raw wood pier foundation: construction crews have come and gone, and you - to live in a new home for many years. The second myth. Frame house fast "aging" According to the literature, with proper observance of technology service life of the frame house is 30-50 years. But there are cases where "karkasniki" live for centuries. But our ancestors did not know anything juicy antiseptics or dryers. We can say that every house lives while living there and maintain it in proper condition. Abandoned building of brick, too quickly will become worthless. The durability of the frame house depends on selected during the construction of antiseptics and flame retardants, wood quality, correct installation of heaters and engineering systems. In terms of maintainability, the frame house here is unparalleled. Its owner can easily change the outer or inner lining, insulated material, to strengthen the individual elements of the framework, to reach located in the walls of communication. And all this can be done, not evicted from the house. To produce such a repair in a brick house, it is necessary to break the wall. The third myth. Frame house a fire hazard than a stone If there is a misconception that fans have frame housing would be much greater. Indeed, properly assembled house, if his boss also saved by passing through the overlap of cheap metal chimneys, sandwiches, can burn in minutes. I have seen the burning of the freshly home: a ventilation gap between insulation and facing the fire spread quickly as the turbine, and the rest of them are dry sawdust flash like gunpowder. Therefore, the construction is very important to observe a range of fire safety measures. Wooden elements in "problem" areas must be treated with flame retardants. In addition, strict adherence to rules chimney installation, heating and electrical equipment - they are the main sources of ignition. This applies not only to frame houses, but also to any other. In a brick house, too many combustible structures: from furniture to the rafters and floor elements. And if, God forbid, a fire broke out, the owners of frame houses sometimes find themselves in less than a deplorable situation, rather than masters of stone. Fire equally leads into disrepair and wood and iron girders, and masonry. House, lined the outside with brick, burn, like a good muffle furnace. In any case, make out the remains of burned-out carcass, to start building again, much easier than to demolish a burned stone house. Myth Four. Frame house not eco-friendly criticism often is, in fact, not a frame made of wood, used for insulating materials based on polystyrene and mineral wool. But if you really try, any house can be dangerous to the health of residents. Environmental bombs can lie in wait for us everywhere: in the basement of radon, "fonyaschem" radiation gravel for the concrete solution, not certified chipboard, paints, varnishes, all kinds of protective antiseptic compounds. What does the frame technology? Myth Five. Frame house does not hold heat Frame walls, collected all the rules, have low thermal conductivity. Warm it can be just a few hours. This remarkable property to give, visited in the winter on occasion. Ten to fifteen inches of expanded polystyrene or slab insulation based on mineral wool replace nearly meter-thick masonry. Anyway, that's portrayed properties of modern insulation materials manufacturers in the booklets. But it all depends on who and how he builds. The house in which drafts are walking on the walls of condensation and the heat does not stay - Civil marriage. Perhaps the builders forgot to put insulation, Breathable membranes, left gaps and cold bridges. In an environment of experienced professionals who are building country houses, and polystyrene and mineral wool have their fans and opponents. Foam used as insulation in the walls of the frame problem, does not absorb moisture, and therefore does not need any steam or gidrozaschitnyh films. Hygroscopic mineral materials should not be in contact with a tree, and performs its function only when properly selected vapor and waterproofing membranes, followed ventilation clearances. Let us return to the question of dilettantism and summarize. Construct a framed hut can really even an amateur. But to make the house safe, warm and comfortable to nowhere muzzle and not dropped, only by a technically competent technician, extracting useful knowledge from their own or others' mistakes.