How to make yourself a porch of concrete

The construction of your own house at all times was considered a difficult and costly business. It was not only the reliability of the construction that depended on the mastery of the owner, but also the comfort of living in this family nest of his household. In this article we will talk about how to make a porch of concrete with your own hands - the element that first meets guests.

Agree, it is difficult to imagine any building without entrance doors, and if they are also located at a certain height, the porch must be present before them as a necessary attribute. For the construction should simply purchase the necessary tools, as well as take advantage of the tips outlined in these instructions.

Advice: if you need to remove concrete structures from a site before construction, cutting reinforced concrete with diamond circles is the best thing to offer.

Technology

Preparatory work

Any porch is that part of the exterior, with which every guest begins to create a general impression about the owners of the house. Therefore, its design should harmoniously fit into the overall concept of the entire structure.

However, along with the external beauty, the design should also be of particular strength. That is why we suggest you learn how to make a porch with your own hands out of concrete, since this material can guarantee durability and high quality of any structure.

Foundation Manufacturing

The most important step in the construction process of any object or structure is to fill the foundation. It should be noted that the complexity lies in the scale and accuracy of its implementation. In order to have an idea about the design of the porch, you first need to create in the imagination of its visual presentation, and then begin to make drawings.

In the process of construction can not do without the following:

• facing bricks;
• wooden boards and pieces of plywood for formwork;
• vibrator for concrete;
• trumpets;
• hacksaws;
• Bulgarians;
• shovels;
• hammer;
• wire;
• concrete mixers;
• reinforcing bars;
• sand, cement and crushed stone for the manufacture of concrete.

Tip: until you collect a complete set for work, it is better not to start the process.

For high-quality production of the foundation, you first need to dig a pit. Then you should prepare the base - pouring a mixture of rubble and sand for concrete into it, and then, having thoroughly tamped it all up, pour water over it.

Preliminary calculations

During these works, it is necessary to consider that:

• on the porch there must be an odd number of steps;
• each step must be a height within the range of 150–200 mm and a depth of no more than 300 mm;
• the foundation pit should be up to 300-400 mm deep, and the width of the whole area under the porch should be 50 mm wide;
• estimate for the production of concrete must take into account that for the production of 1 m? solution will need about 350 kg of cement, about 1m? sand and 0.87 m? rubble

Formwork technology

As a rule, for the manufacture of formwork used wooden boards and ordinary plywood, the price of which is quite affordable.

The process of its manufacture includes several stages:

1. On the plywood sheet, mark the side of the formwork, draw at an angle of 90 ° treads and risers and cut out the contours with a jigsaw or hacksaw.
2. Schedule the pad and final tread, given the slope for water flow.
3. Install stiffeners on the sides to provide support for the formwork.
4. Hammer to fix the formwork in the ground stakes to a depth of about 250 mm.
5. Install the spacers between the formwork plywood panels and the fixing pins to give a special structural strength.
6. Cut off any excess pieces of wooden planks that were used for stiffness. Do this according to the size of the risers.

Tip: use to assemble the individual parts of the formwork between each nails with double caps.

After the formwork for the porch of concrete is installed, put a sheet of roofing material on the top of the base and then apply a special sealant to create a temperature joint.

Making a porch

After completion of the preparatory phase can be taken as the main work.

The instructions below will help you understand how to make a porch of concrete yourself:

1. Create a reinforced frame that is completely in accordance with the configuration of the porch. In this case, you should not save, because due to the lack of reinforcement, the concrete structure can later begin to deform.

Tip: if you plan to equip the porch with a railing, then in the process of reinforcement, leave a kind of reinforcement protrusions from the corners of the steps of the concrete stairs.

1. Prepare a concrete solutionFor this you can use a concrete mixer or make it manually. Composition:

• crushed stone (2 parts);
• sand (2 parts);
• cement (part 1);
• water (1 part).

Bring the mixture to the desired consistency and use it for an hour, otherwise it will start to set.

1. Pour the concrete into the prepared formwork and tamp it with a hand tamper, or better - a deep vibratorto remove air.
2. The formwork can be removed no earlier than in 7-10 days., but for the complete drying of the concrete will take about a month.

Tip: if you then have to drill a communication channel through the porch, your solution is diamond drilling of holes in concrete with special crowns.

Tip: do not stand until the concrete is fully prepared to step onto the porch, otherwise all the work done will be ruined.

Conclusion

This article described in detail how to make a porch of concrete on their own. All the nuances of the work were taken into account, and useful recommendations were given. Now you can make it yourself, without spending money on employees. The video in this article will help you find additional information on this topic.