House planning from a bar - from idea to realization

Any construction does not begin with digging a ditch under the foundation or even with the delivery of materials to the site; any construction begins with design. Calculations will be preceded by your vision of your future home, the location of rooms or functionals, the number of floors, the placement of stairs and their species.

All this is arranged in a single “bouquet” and calculations are already attached to it and materials are imported under it. It is the project side of the question that our instruction is devoted to.

What we consider and in what sequence

Planning of wooden houses from a bar begins with a common vision of the picture. Some people like a lot of small rooms, each of which has a specific role, for example, a bedroom, a dining room, a library.

Someone, on the contrary, wants to have one large room, and functionals should be distinguished by simple zoning techniques.

Tastes do not argue, they are implemented, so let's start planning:

1. First of all, we will determine the number of floors and the communication between them. The layout of one-story houses from a bar is considered the simplest type of construction, but even here it is necessary to take into account the total number of rooms, the location of the kitchen, bathroom, hallway.

Note! Although the construction of single-storey houses gradually departs to the annals of history, single-storey houses are replaced with houses with attic or two-storey, but, nevertheless, they exist. But the exit to the attic level is often made from the hallway, that is, internal. At the planning stage, it is very necessary to imagine the location of this exit, the area that will be occupied by the stairs to the attic, as well as the location of the furnace or other heating equipment or structures.

1. Planning of log houses is also the choice of material for construction. Even if you are offered a timber (for example, from larch), you should understand that this material is also represented by several types.

In this context, you can calculate on:

• Round timber. Simply put, a log without bark, which is given under a single size and ready for laying. The material is cheap, made in commercial sizes and will allow to assemble a house that will stay for a long time;
• Profiled natural moisture bar made of solid wood. An interesting solution that will take an average price niche, but will allow you to assemble the building quickly enough - faster than the previous material;
• Glued beam. Layouts of houses from glued timber can afford much more than the projects of houses from the already mentioned materials. The fact is that the standard dimensions of this bar are 6 and 12 meters in length (this is despite the fact that competitors have only 6 or 7 meters). The second size gives much more opportunities to build walls of serious houses. Here is the truth the price of this product will be several times higher.

Tip! Each of the presented types of timber has its positive and negative sides, we have already written about them, and there is no sense to repeat. But what I want to draw your attention to is the fact that cheap material - expensive styling, expensive material - allows you to build even with your own hands, without large expenses. In the final comparison, it turns out that total expenses are in the same price range and it becomes almost impossible to choose an obvious favorite.

1. Calculation of the timing of the assembly. It is clear that nobody needs long-term construction and the owners of future houses will be interested, first of all, how quickly all this can be erected and when it will be possible to move into the finished house.

So, in terms of assembly:

• Profiled bars, for example, 150x150, will fall into place within a month, but provided that the number of working people in a brigade is 5-6, reducing the brigade to 3 people, increase the timeframe in appropriate multiplicity - 2 months. You can work yourself, but do not forget that the glued bar can reach 200 kg of weight, and this is a serious weight;
• Round timber stacked longer, but not much. The problem here will be that you will have to cook the necessary semicircular grooves for joining logs by hand, and this requires both skill and time;
• Separately, on temporary amendments. Planning of houses from a bar cannot give you even an approximate date of the termination of construction until you decide on the foundation for a house from a bar.

And although this issue will be devoted to the hotel chapter, I would like to say that time is needed for the construction of this mandatory structural element. If you are preparing a capital foundation with the possibility of using the space under the house, then not a small one, just a few more months.

1. Layout of houses from a bar should take into account another important point is insulation. Although the construction of the house is a bar of 200x200 mm, which in itself is warm enough and is used for construction in climatic zones with seasonal temperatures of 80 degrees Celsius, but the issues of warming are not superfluous.

Of course, you can wait a year and check how the house behaves, whether or not you should do it, but do not forget that wood is a natural material that has the ability to shrink and crack (if we are talking about solid wood), which in turn reduces the ability to keep warm in the house.

Several additional amendments

Planning of houses from glued timber or other material must necessarily take into account some additional points, why you will understand the extras now:

• Shrinkage of the structure. This indicator has no effect on the construction time, but it also affects the time of the finishing finish. The maximum shrinkage of the house occurs during the construction of houses from logs and reaches up to 15%, the minimum for laminated timber to 4%. However, in all cases, master carpenters advise starting interior work, installing windows and doors no earlier than one year after the box has been built;
• The layout of the house of laminated veneer lumber can not take into account, but for the rest of the houses are required impregnation from pests and diseases of wood.

The foundation is important, prepared with a margin of safety

It does not matter at all what layout of which house you will occupy, even 9 by 9 m, although you will be interested in the planning of a bath from a 4x4 bar, but without a foundation you have nowhere, and there are enough options.

Briefly about the main thing:

• The first type of foundation is piles. Let's say right away - reliably, quickly, without any extra headache. Metal pipes with a drill at the end are beautiful and most importantly they are quickly pushed into the ground to the required depth, with a grinder cut to a single standard (horizontal level) and a channel is welded on top in the form of a support and connecting strip.

This is the simplest type of foundation that will hold the building, usually one-story or with an attic, without a cellar, an underground garage and no second floor;

• The second type of foundation is brick or reinforced concrete pillars with docking in the form of a shallow reinforced concrete structure, as a rule, erected at the construction site. In this case, you need to calculate for earthworks or make them yourself, a brick that you will use when building pillars, reinforcement, to reinforce the whole structure.

Do not forget the sand and cement, which are required. In the calculations, do not forget that the piles are installed at the corners and joints, as well as every 1.5-2 meters along the entire length of the perimeter of the building. The width of the joint tape will be 10-15 cm wider than the width of the beam that is used to build the wall;

• The third type - the foundation for underground structures, two or more floors, as well as the planned insulation and brick lining. In this case, the calculation goes, as in the case of a shallow analogue, just remember that the costs of all components will increase significantly. There will also be additional costs for protection from groundwater.

Walls, walls and more walls

It would seem that it may be easier to calculate the material on the walls, planned a house of 9x9 m, calculated the number of beams, fitted them to a cubic capacity and deal with the end, but it was not there.

We consider:

• The material itself, do not forget to make a correction for the joints;
• Ruberoid, when laying the first crown. You can add (and need) to it bitumen, if the work is carried out on a concrete basis;
• Insulation that you will lay between the beams. This may be jute tape, and maybe another insulation;
• Do not forget to make an amendment to antiseptics and antipyretics, since the wood must be processed;
• And let's not forget about the little things: anchoring or bolts on the first crown, dowel or metal brackets - little things, but money costs.

About ceilings and roofs

And here the costs of:

• Wood on the batten, rafters and other attributes of the structure;
• Hydro barrier and all that is attached to it;
• Slate, metal tile or any other coating material.

Finally

As you can see, sweet prank, calculating the cost of building a house, was not at all sweet. The video in this article is ready to open the topic, enjoy.