Concrete garage: the basics of construction and insulation

Any owner of the car understands what indisputable advantages the garage has over the same paid parking. And it's not just about protecting the vehicle from theft, but also about the desire to protect the car from rain, wind and frost. The last point is especially important for countries with a temperate and cold climate. Therefore, the question of how to insulate a concrete garage with your own hands will always be relevant.

Types of garages

A fairly simple and effective solution is a concrete modular garage. This design is a few concrete panels, which are manufactured at the factory.

The assembly of such a garage is carried out directly on the installation site with bolts and fittings. Gates are usually made from sheet iron.

The main advantages of this type of construction are:

• Compactness.
• High assembly speed.
• Relatively low price.
• Neat appearance.

Monolith

In addition to prefabricated structures, the concrete monolithic garage is still very popular.

Its advantages include:

• Durability.
• Strength.
• Ability to choose reinforced concrete slabs of the required size.
• The ease of the provision of repair work, if any. Reinforced concrete garage does not require special care and frequent repairs.

Керамзитобетон

A very popular building material for the construction of the garage is expanded clay.

The main positive qualities of this material are:

• Moisture resistance.
• Resistance to aggressive acidic and alkaline environments.
• Due to the large size of the blocks, the laying is quick and fairly easy, which allows you to build a garage of claydite-concrete blocks with your own hands.

Foam concrete

You should also pay attention to such material as foam concrete.

This material is characterized by such qualities as:

• Low weight
• The lowest cost among analogues.
• Excellent heat-insulating characteristics allow not to carry out additional warming.
• At the same time, foam concrete is a fairly durable material.

Thus, the construction of foam concrete garages is economically justified.

Warming and everything connected with it

Immediately it should be mentioned that the optimum temperature in the garage is +5 degrees and no more. If frost enters the warm room, condensate will form on the vehicle, which will eventually lead to corrosion.

Therefore, the main thing here is not to overdo it. For insulation use the following methods, which we display in a table

  Note! When carrying out heat insulation works, in no case should the ventilation openings be closed with a heater, since the carbon dioxide produced by the car will not be able to leave the room and accumulation will occur. This can lead to poisoning.

Floor in the garage

From whatever material the garage itself was built, the floor in the garage in most cases is concrete. The concrete surface of the floor is waterproof, durable, durable and fairly cheap.

But with all its advantages, this surface is quite dusty and eventually erases. To avoid this, it is necessary to make additional coverage for concrete in the garage, or to stop at the simplest option, that is, to paint the floor.

Paints must be abrasion resistant. Two-component epoxy paint is the best concrete paint for the garage.

If, after all, it was decided to put an additional coating, then the most popular types of coatings are:

• Ceramic tile.
• Wood cover.
• Rubber cover.
• Polymer coating.

At the moment there are a lot of building materials on the market that can be used in the construction of a garage and its insulation.

Conclusion

Крепкий бетонный гараж можно построить в нескольких видах, и каждый из них обязательно будет отличаться прочностью и надежностью. Помочь в правильном направлении всех работ, призвано видео в этой статье, которое станет для вас своеобразным прорабом-советчиком (см.также статью «Бетонный пол в гараже: технология монтажа»).