Building a Frame House with Your Hands

In America and Europe today, about seventy percent of individual houses are built using frame-house-building technology. Today, Canadian technology, also called frame construction, is the most popular for low-rise construction.

All elements of the frame house are manufactured in an industrial way. Special beams are stitched together in a single monolithic construction and are the backbone of the house. For insulation use modern insulating materials made of natural raw materials.

In our country, the construction of private houses is continuously improving, especially the construction of a frame house with its own hands becomes popular, although many continue to build houses in the old manner, in traditional ways - from brick, wood or foam blocks. Frame houses in their characteristics in no way inferior to brick houses, and sometimes even surpass them.

All those who decided to build a frame house with their own hands know that such houses are called in different ways - frame-assembled, frame-panel, frame-shield, Canadian and even Scandinavian. Frame construction with our own hands, we are still just picking up the pace.

The basis of the house, as can be understood from the name itself, is the frame, for the production of which we use planed sawn timber, but not only them, but also glued timber, especially for the construction of large spans. If you want to build your own house frame house as a heater for walls it is better to use natural, environmentally friendly materials, for example, Izover or Rukvul. The thickness of the insulation must be at least twelve centimeters, so that in winter the walls do not freeze. And that they are not blown, they need to enclose fiberboard or chipboard. Well, the finish of the facade can be done by anyone and depends on your desire.

Building a frame house with their own hands can be broken down into stages. It begins, as well as the construction of any other house, from the foundation. You can make a monolithic foundation, but thanks to the low weight of the house you can use a tape or columnar foundation. The holes for the columnar foundation should be drilled with a suitable diameter drill. Drilling is necessary to a depth of about a meter with a step of 90 cm. In the holes are inserted asbestos-cement pipes, into which a funnel is poured concrete solution. The column foundation can be done literally over the weekend and begin immediately to build the frame of the house, without waiting until the foundation has hardened.

The material from which the frame is made is treated with flame retardant protection. The walls are insulated from the inside, then they are finished with an oriented-chip or cement-chip board. You can use other materials for this purpose: bending, gypsum board or laminated plywood.

After completing the interior finish, begin to finish the facade. This can be done with the help of bricks, siding, facade plaster or tiles, artificial wild stone.

Frame construction by one's own hands is possible due to the fact that all the necessary materials are available for sale. For the roof, you can use profiled sheets, soft roofs, tiles, Euroshow and other materials. Overlappings, floors, partitions between rooms are made of frame plates. These special slabs with insulation are protected well both from wind and noise. The construction of a frame house with its own hands is much cheaper than a brick house, and it will take two months to build it.

The construction of the frame house with its own hands must be carried out with observance of such an important detail of the wireframe technology as an air or ventilation gap between the wind-waterproofing and external finishing, which will significantly increase the operation of the house.