Finishing the facade of the house foam

Polystyrene foam (polystyrene) is a modern material that is successfully used in construction for the insulation of houses. Decorating the facade of the house with foam will make it warmer, and if you use decorative elements, you can give the building an original look.

This article will provide practical recommendations for those who decide to do this finish.

Pros and cons

If we talk about the feasibility of such finishing, then the arguments in favor of the material and against it will have an equal amount, and before making a choice, you need to consider all the criteria.

Advantages of finishing foam:

1. The main advantage is lightness. Due to this quality, it is not necessary to mount complex structures to finish the building with foam plastic.
2. Polyfoam has a dense porous structure, is not afraid of moisture.
3. In the line of insulation, it is considered to be a universal material, and with its help you can finish any, even an old building.

The disadvantages of finishing foam include the following:

1. The first drawback is fragility. When working with the material you need to be careful.
2. Untreated material is exposed to high temperatures, under the scorching rays of the sun and with time it may turn yellow and crumble.
3. The most serious disadvantage of this material is its low fire resistance. Therefore, when decorating you need to use additional protective measures.

Thermal insulation foam

Despite the fact that the use of polystyrene in construction has several negative factors, it is increasingly being used to insulate residential or industrial buildings. As a rule, the material is mounted outside the building on a previously prepared surface. This option will allow to warm the room with high quality without loss of internal space. The cost of heating significantly reduced.

The order of work: prepare the surface

Before properly insulating the building with foam plastic, the heat-insulated surface should be leveled to the maximum. For the reliability of adhesion glue better primed it.

Note! If you need to insulate the plastered surface, you should remove all peeling places, putty them and treat them with a primer at least three times.

Installation of foam

• In the lower part of the walls there is a flat horizontal line, along which the starting plate is attached, and the work will begin from it.
• The plates are fixed with glue with cement base and fixed with plastic dowels. It is recommended to use at least five such dowels per sheet. The optimal location is 4 at the edges, and 1-2 in the middle. When the surface is flat, the glue is applied to it, and then the plates are applied. If you need to insulate the wall with noticeable differences, then at first the adhesive composition is spread on the problem area, the shortcomings are leveled, and only after that the foam plastic plate is applied.

• The following rows are mounted with a slight offset of the vertical seam; in the places of the window openings, the foam is trimmed with a hacksaw with fine teeth.
• After attaching all the sheets on top of them need to glue the reinforcing glass mesh. For this, small strips are used, which need to be fixed with a small overlap (5–10 cm). Fastening is made with special glue.
• After drying, you need to remove all irregularities with a trowel, and glue a perforated corner to the corners.

Warming is completed, the final part is the application of facade putty and subsequent painting. As a result, you will get perfectly flat walls and a warm room.

Decorative component

In addition to insulation, lately, decorative foam plastic is in demand.

Decorative elements are presented in various versions, which are used for finishing any surfaces of a building:

• cornices
• slopes,
• sandwich,
• trim plates
• columns, etc.

Decorative overhead elements are delivered to the construction site in finished form according to a previously developed project.

Foam components replaced heavy and cumbersome materials: plaster, concrete, stucco and artificial stone.

Facade finish

Products from expanded polystyrene today have an increased demand due to their qualities and characteristics that directly affect the installation process:

1. In their external massive form, they have a relatively small weight, which simplifies installation and does not give any load on the walls of the building.
2. In terms of strength, they are, of course, inferior to such materials as gypsum, but they have enough of its stock for maintenance-free operation.
3. The main advantage is the low cost of the finished material.

In contrast to the works on warming, it will not be possible to make decorative decoration with foam plastic yourself. This will require the drafting of the design of the project, and installation can be carried out only by qualified specialists.

In any case, choosing foam as a heater or for decorative finishes, you will not lose - the result will not disappoint you.

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