A frame house is a great solution for a country house. This design is built in a short period of time and does not require special building skills. Today we will talk about how to build a frame house on the site, talk about the main stages of construction and the mistakes made, which are easy to avoid. The design really exists, it was made by hand.
frame house project
Preparing a frame house project is the initial and most important stage of construction. allows you to erect buildings of different heights and purposes on the site. We decided to build a light 6 by 4 frame house on the site, consisting of one single room, with four windows and a hip roof. Insulation of the house was not provided, since it is planned to use it exclusively in the summer.
You can find it online, or you can draw a project yourself. To develop the project, special programs are mainly used, but if the house does not have complex architectural solutions, you can draw it by hand on a regular sheet of paper.
The project of a frame house on a piece of paper.
The drawing must necessarily indicate all the functional parts of the house, such as door and window openings, the structure of the roof, the thickness of the walls, floors, you can indicate what materials will be used in the work and calculate the approximate cost of construction in order to build a frame house inexpensively.
It is the design drawing that allows you to determine what economic costs will be needed for construction.
The foundation of a frame house
After the decision was made to build a frame house for a summer residence and a rough plan was drawn up for it, you can proceed to the selection of a suitable site for construction. The surface, preferably, should be flat, then there will be no problems with installing the foundation and installing the floor.
The lags were treated with protective impregnation. We decided to do without a foundation and proceeded to build the floor directly on the ground, which was leveled with gravel. This is the first and main mistake when we started building an inexpensive frame house.
Installation of a floor log on gravel.
We built the floor frame from nine boards 150x50 mm, six meters long, which allowed us to install transverse floor joists without joints along the entire length of the house. In addition, two more boards of four meters were used, which were put on the end of the log. The distance between the floor lags was made by 500 mm, which is quite enough for a given thickness of the board and the thickness of the plywood for the floor.
Before you thoroughly knock together the logs of the floor among themselves, you need to make sure that the diagonals of this base are equal to each other. You also need to check the location of the frame house relative to the neighboring fence and. It is important to check the horizontal level of the floor lags that are on the rubble, and if you need to easily add it.
Despite the fact that a turnkey frame house is considered a fairly lightweight structure and you can build it right on the ground, the foundation of a frame house performs certain functions:
- Evenly distributes the load from the entire structure.
- Provides durability of a design, protecting it from freezing, ground waters.
- Prevents warping and shrinkage during ground movement.
Strip foundation
Before building, it is better to choose a strip foundation for that type of construction. You will spend more time and effort on construction, but you will make the entire structure durable. The strip foundation will be especially in demand if the construction is carried out on stable soils.
Strip foundation on rubble.
When erecting a strip foundation, you can organize additional rooms in the basement. If the basement is not planned, then soil remains inside the foundation contour. Please note that the width of the strip foundation should be greater than the thickness of the walls of your frame house.
After the construction of the foundation is completed, the lower floor trim is installed, it is performed using a beam or board placed on the end. The board is installed along the perimeter of the foundation, or along the perimeter of the future house directly on the ground (as in our case). The joints are connected with nails; the structure can be further strengthened with the help of special metal brackets. To enhance the bearing capacity of the floor structure, transverse logs are installed.
On a note
The floor board must be treated with an antiseptic.
During the construction of our house, we immediately proceeded to install the frame, however, after tying, it is advisable to start arranging the subfloor. If the house is planned to be used not only in the summer, insulation material is laid between the lags, then a vapor barrier film, the last layer is plywood sheets.
frame house
The do-it-yourself frame country house has a lightweight design and a lightweight frame. The frame of the frame house is attached to the floor trim.
Installation of the walls of the frame house. Initially, corner posts are installed; metal brackets can be used for secure fastening, but we did without their use. The U-shaped frame of the wall is knocked together at the bottom and necessarily fastened with corner braces, and only after that it rises and is fixed on temporary supports.
The power frame of the walls of the summer house. To ensure greater structural reliability, we attached each corner post with additional braces at the top and bottom, so they protect the frame house in the photo from loosening. We nailed two corner posts of the frame in each corner with 100 mm nails.
After installing the main corner posts, you can begin to fix the remaining one on a four-meter wall and two posts on a six-meter wall. The boards of the upper trim along the long wall are fastened together by two beams.
hip roof
Once the main load-bearing frame of the frame garden house has been erected, you can begin to build the roof truss system.
Hip roof ridge with central rafters. We decided on the type of roof and its slope at the stage of drafting the project of the future house. A small frame house will have a hip roof, with a minimum slope of 20 degrees for that type of roof. In the hip roof, two slopes are trapezoidal, the other two are triangular.
The frame summer house has a hip roof, which provides additional protection for the entire structure due to the fact that all slopes are inclined.
At the first stage of the construction of the truss system, the Mauerlat is installed - a special wooden beam or board, which is installed around the entire perimeter of the frame walls. In this case, we did without the muerlat, and the load was distributed over the upper harness, which has good rigidity due to the fact that it stands on the end of the board.
The power frame of the hip roof. At the next stage, a ridge run is mounted, the size of which must be calculated correctly, since it is on this component of the roof that the main load falls. The ridge run, two meters long, and the central rafters were assembled on the ground, and only then they went up and mounted.
After fixing the ridge run, they are engaged in the installation of diagonal rafters, which, like the ridge itself, are made of a board 150 by 50 mm. Diagonal rafters rest with one edge against the ridge, and with the other edge against the corner where the upper harness of the house converges. All fastenings are made using ordinary metal nails, which does not affect the strength of the structure.
When the power frame of the hip roof is ready, you can continue to build the roof further. Intermediate rafters and outdoor rafters are fastened, which we made from two inches hammered together.
Hip roof truss system. After installing the truss system, it is necessary to mount the hip roof sheathing. We made it from an inch and started nailing it from the cornice overhang upwards to the ridge, with the same distance between the boards of the crate.
Roof truss system. A one-story frame house can be covered with roofing and a regular metal profile can be used. It is easy to work with such roofing material, it is coated with special substances that protect against corrosion and premature destruction. Other advantages of this roofing material include light weight, affordable cost and a huge range of colors.
Before installing the material, you need to worry about additional protection of the structure. For these purposes, you can use a waterproofing material that is attached directly to the truss system with metal brackets. But we did not use it for the reason that the frame house will not be insulated.
Metal profile roof. The installation of the metal profile starts from the end of the roof. The main thing is to correctly install the first sheet, the location of all subsequent ones depends on it. The first sheet of the metal profile is attached to the ridge run with self-tapping screws, all subsequent sheets are overlapped with the previous sheets and connected with self-tapping screws.
Outer cladding of the house
After the completion of the construction of the roof, you can proceed to the sheathing of the frame. In our case, the frame of the frame house was sheathed on the outside with OSB sheets. At the same time, only two distant walls were sheathed with OSB, one of them was directed to the fence, and the other to the side. Before the OSB sheets were screwed onto the screws, we installed additional 100 mm inch racks.
Sheathing of external walls with OSB sheets. For the summer frame house, we decided to make four large square windows of 1500 mm each, because we wanted more light. We also made the frame for the windows from an inch board, it turned out to be light, because the entire load is carried by the load-bearing frame of the garden house made from a board 150 by 50 mm.
Frame for four windows. Two front sides of the frame country house were sheathed with a block house to give the design individuality. Due to the fact that they built the house only on weekends, they immediately treated the block house with a special impregnation for mahogany wood.
Sheathing of the front wall with a block house. In the place where the door is mounted in the house, two racks from the board 150 by 50 were installed to secure the door more securely.
Sheathing and door installation. If you plan to live in a house not only in hot weather, then after working with a block house, it is important to insulate with mineral wool and waterproof the internal walls. The waterproofing film is attached around the entire perimeter of the interior, it simply closes the opening. After attaching, the film is carefully trimmed and fixed inside the window and door opening using a construction stapler.
Frame house without inserted windows. After that, you can begin to finish the frame house with your own hands.
The interior lining of the house
The interior lining of the house is done with lining. Since the frame garden house was originally planned to be used only in the summer season, the walls were not insulated, the frame was simply sheathed with OSB sheets and a blockhouse.
Finishing of internal walls with clapboard. To improve the performance of the structure, insulation is performed. At the last stage, we already wrote about how to properly lay the waterproofing film after installing the insulation. Most often, in such structures, either mineral wool or ordinary foam is used.
Can be built on a summer cottage, they are made of special panels, the design of which already provides for both insulation and waterproofing. A lining is attached on top of the insulation.
Windows and doors
When fixing windows, openings must be left, which will be filled with mounting foam. If there is no protective transport film in the profile, it is better to glue it around the perimeter with mounting tape, this procedure will protect the structure from the expansion of the mounting foam.
Installation of single sash windows. Our inexpensive frame house used windows that open like a balcony to the sides. If during installation you have difficulties, it is better to involve specialists in the work. It is from the correct installation of window and door profiles that the protection of the room from cold and moisture will depend.
On a note
The mounting foam is carefully trimmed only after complete hardening, at the same stage all protective films are removed.
Laminate on the floor
It is possible to proceed with the installation of the finished floor only after the completion of work with the installation of windows and doors, otherwise the air entering the room from the street can provoke damage to the flooring.
Laminate flooring in the house. In our frame garden house, we decided to use high-quality laminate. Laying is carried out on a subfloor made of plywood, on top of which a special sealing material is laid.
Roof insulation with foam
After completing the flooring work, we thought about the issues of roof insulation and additionally increase sound insulation during rain. This is another serious mistake - it is advisable to finish all the finishing work, including the roof, and only then proceed with the installation of the flooring, otherwise there is a high risk of simply ruining the floor.
Roof insulation with styrofoam. We decided to insulate the frame country house with our own hands with foam. The foam panels are attached to the truss system from the inside of the house tightly to each other, if gaps remain, cold air will easily enter the room. Between the roof sheathing and the foam, it is not necessary to fix the waterproofing film.
Roof sheathing with OSB panels. From above, the foam is sheathed with OSB panels, after which it will be possible to start finishing the roof or leave everything as it is.
Nearly finished finish. Today we talked about how to build a frame garden house with our own hands, based on personal experience. Some mistakes were made during the construction process, but they practically did not affect the overall functionality of the structure.
The frame house was built for several years, because most of the time was on weekends and only on our own. With such construction with your own hands, you can expect that the prices for frame houses will be low. In our example, you saw that every person can build a frame house, even without deep building skills.
Like any construction business, the construction of an economic domino on a garden plot should begin with the development of a project. The main dimensions you have chosen will allow you to determine the design of the building as a whole.
This, in turn, will help you select the required amount of building material and estimate the total cost of your enterprise.
As an example, here are drawings of a house with detailing of individual building elements and a general assembly in an axonometric view. If you take this design as a basis, you will need bars with a section of 58-58 and 38 x 38 mm for the frame, lining for wall cladding, as well as slats and lining of the doorway with a section of 18 × 58 mm.
A special permit for the construction of such an economic house, occupying an area not exceeding 5 mg, is not required. But still, you need to know the rules governing the placement of buildings relative to the boundaries of neighboring plots. That's why carefully choose a place for the house. Typically, such buildings are located on a flat and dry area, protected from strong winds. It is better to enter the building from the south side, then even without windows with open doors it will be light in it.
When laying out a site for construction, mark the position of the corner posts of the frame of the house with pegs and mark the center lines of the walls with a towline.
Despite the fact that the structure under construction is very light, it is still necessary to strengthen the soil under it. The best way is to use a cement slab, laying it on a sand cushion. If you decide to cast the slab on site, then do not forget to cement metal anchors into it, to which it will be possible to attach (directly or through support bars) the lower frame trim. It is even easier to make a columnar foundation.
For it, dig holes 50 cm deep. Pour a layer of medium-sized gravel into them and fill in the mortar. The required level of pouring of each support is indicated by the height of the formwork. And install the anchors here. After 2k hours, inspect the foundation and correct the flaws. Later, the solution will already gain strength.
Prepare all the necessary frame parts in advance. Please note that the corner posts of the building rest on the foundation, while the intermediate posts of the wall frames rest on the bottom trim. Therefore, their length will be different. Having laid out the parts on a flat horizontal platform, first assemble the two end walls.
Don't make it difficult for yourself. Racks with strapping are simply connected with bolts or screws 6 x 120 mm. Don't forget to drill holes for them first. Then sheathe the walls with boards, starting from the bottom. Use galvanized nails 60 mm long for this. Exactly along the cord, cut the protruding ends of the boards with a circular saw. Facade walls differ from each other only in that there are two additional pillars of the doorway on the main facade.
Fasten the rafter legs to the upper ends of the obliquely cut frame racks. The central roof truss is reinforced with a puff. The truss assembly must be securely connected through the support bars to the upper trim of the wall frame.
Attach the internal partition by screwing 8 x 100 mm screws into the posts of the front and rear walls of the facades with a screwdriver, having previously made holes for them with a drill. Then connect with each other with the same
way all four walls. Strengthen the structure by upholstering the frame of the rear and front facade walls with boards.
Lay the middle truss truss on the upper trim of the side wall frames and, using metal corners, firmly connect them with screws through the support bars with a section of 58 x 58 mm. Nail flashings to the corner posts and lay the floor in the cabinets.
Sheathe the doorway with boards that will play the role of a door frame, and veneer. This work can be done by assembling all the prepared components, laying them out on the ground or sequentially mounting them directly in the opening. For the cabinet, nail a slat to the center post of the wall frame. Locking hecks will be attached to it. Then line the cabinet opening. To close the cabinet, it is enough to have light doors made of boards fastened with transverse bars with a section of 18 x 58 mm. Drive nails obliquely when sheathing. Doors are hung on ordinary hinges (door or window). If you will close the cabinet with a lock, you will need to pick up latches with lugs.
Assemble the roof slopes on the ground. Lay the lining on the bars and fasten the slope panels with nails. Place the bars under the boards with rafter spacing. When laying on the roof, they can be attached to the rafters through the bars with screws. However, the roof with boards can be sheathed directly along the rafters. Nail the edges of the soft roof laid on the panels with galvanized nails with large hats. Then lay the wind and cornice boards, cover the corners of the house with flashings.
Finally, saturate the wood inside and out with a rot and fungus protection agent. You can paint the house only outside. Two layers of paint or decorative azure give additional protection to the building.
Frame garden house - drawings
DIY garden house - photo
1. Pre-prepared parts of the frame - racks, bars of the lower trim, lintels, rafter beams and tightening - are assembled on a flat area into wall frames, connecting them with screws. Holes for screws are drilled with a drill.
2. The frames are sheathed with tongue-and-groove boards, rallying them with a wedge clamp. Galvanized nails are driven in with a hammer.
3. The protruding ends of the boards are cut with a circular saw.
4. The connection of racks with inclined rafters is carried out using screws wrapped at an angle to the rafter beam.
5. Put the sheathing on the front wall
along the sides of the doorway. Work starts from the bottom. The cutting of the top board is carried out locally.
6. The caps of the fastening nails are covered with plank sheathing. The cracks in the corners will hide them in the cladding boards. The first board is placed from below, stepping back from the edge of the strapping.
7. You can also connect wall panels and partitions with nails, but it is more rational to use large capercaillie screws, having previously made holes for them.
8. The door frame is inserted into the opening.
Its manufacture requires precise observance of the required dimensions. The box can be assembled on the spot or, as shown in the photo, on a flat area.
9. Installing the box and trim requires care to avoid gaps
and distortions: the door will stand on the main facade.
10. Partitions of cabinets are screwed to the walls. The cladding boards of the facade of the cabinets are brought to the edges of the frame, closing the corner and intermediate racks.
11. To assemble the door leaf, assemble its trim. The crossbars installed at the points of fastening of the loops are reinforced with short braces. Before sheathing the door frame, use clamps for screeding.
12. It is best to hang such a door on barn hinges with a long card. It is useful to additionally fix the casing of the box on the inside of the room with screws to increase the strength.
13. When installing the valve, a block of wood may be required, which is nailed directly to the wall sheathing boards.
14. The truss structure standing in the middle of the house is attached to the upper wall trim using four galvanized steel corners. This is where a cordless screwdriver comes in handy.
15. The roof is sheathed along the rafters with boards. When trimming their ends, use a cord. Sheathing starts from the bottom of the overhang.
A house on a land plot is simply necessary, because a dacha is not only a garden, but also a place to relax, and there will always be somewhere to hide from bad weather. As a rule, the design of such houses is not particularly difficult, so even beginners in the construction business will not have problems. Read more about how to make a country house with your own hands in this article.
Choose the type of house, taking into account the budget
The budget for the upcoming construction is far from always unlimited, quite often the financing of the construction of a country house is carried out according to the residual principle, but even in this case you can choose a good option.
We can distinguish the following types of houses in suburban areas:
- capital (made of natural stone, brick or wood);
- small houses, usually made of wood - frame construction technology is used;
- country houses from block containers - almost finished structures;
- houses for children stand apart - it is rather a combination of a playground and a small gazebo.
At the same time, the time and financial costs of building a small house will be comparable to the costs of building a medium-sized barn. And the use of modern technologies will reduce construction time to a minimum.
Start of construction
In the case of using frame construction technology, the entire process can be divided into separate stages:
- foundation device;
- bottom strapping device;
- fixing the frame elements- racks and braces, installation of a log, if necessary, assembly of the frame of the second floor;
- wall cladding;
- building a roof frame and sheathing it;
- laying roofing elements, interior decoration of the house, protecting wood from climatic influences.
None of these operations require special skills, so everyone can build a house in the country with their own hands.
What should be the foundation?
Under a brick house, there is simply no alternative to a reinforced strip foundation. But if a tree is used, then the main task of the foundation will be not so much in the perception of a large load, but in raising the house above ground level.
Therefore, with frame construction technology, concrete or brick pillars (pile foundations) are often dispensed with, the top of which is 30–50 cm from the ground. It is important that the tops of the pillars are in the same plane. This is an inexpensive option, especially compared to.
The basement is built of brick after the construction of the house itself. It is not recommended to make it solid, this will lead to the fact that moisture from under the house will evaporate very slowly.
Note!
On the area that the foundation will occupy, it is necessary to remove the vegetative layer of soil and replace it with sand.
Thanks to this, water will not stagnate under the house and the tree will not rot.
Bottom trim
This is the basis for the future floor and support for the frame of the walls. It is assembled from 10x15 cm bars and is attached directly to the foundation.
Advice!
It is undesirable to connect the bars end-to-end in the corners - this will not provide the necessary rigidity.
It is recommended to use a punched connection, which is additionally reinforced with self-tapping screws or an anchor.
Sometimes in the foundation itself, even during the masonry process, reinforcing outlets (10-15 cm) are left, on which the strapping bars are then simply put on. This method of fastening can be considered optimal in terms of rigidity and strength of the connection.
Wall frame
At the planning stage, the main attention should be paid to the development of the framework of the structure. You can prepare drawings of a country house with your own hands, or you can choose the appropriate option on our website.
The main element of the frame is a vertical post, rigidly connected to the upper and lower trim. You can attach it to the strapping bars either using metal corners, or select a groove in the strapping bar and simply insert the rack into it.
The corner connection is less rigid, so it is advisable to use it only in small houses. If the structure is large enough, then these 2 methods can be combined.
In order to prevent the racks from warping during the assembly process (as long as they are fixed only in the lower part), they are additionally fixed with temporary braces in the form of ordinary planks. Permanent braces are installed only after the work with the top trim is completed.
Note!
In the bars of the upper trim, the holes should be exactly above the holes in the lower trim.
A shift of even a couple of centimeters will cause a curvature of the frame racks.
In the process of assembling the frame, you must not forget about window and door openings. The main rule is that the load from the structure should not be transferred to, (so as not to warp it). Therefore, openings are always made wider than the window or door itself. The cracks then simply foam up and hide behind the platbands.
In the corners of the house, for greater strength of the frame, it is possible to install not frame planks, but bars with a section of 10x10 or 10x15 cm. Grooves are drilled at the end of the bar and in the strapping, into which a wooden cylinder is inserted. Additionally, the connection is fixed with metal corners. In general, when assembling the frame, each connection can be strengthened with corners, but in this case the construction cost will increase.
In parallel with the collection of the frame under the walls, you need to do the construction of the floor.
In frame construction, 2 options for flooring are possible:
- when grooves are selected in the strapping bars and logs are attached to them. Reduces the bearing capacity of the beams, suitable only for a small construction site;
- when the logs are assembled into one whole (it turns out a kind of box), then it is laid on top of the strapping and attached to it with self-tapping screws.
If a do-it-yourself house for a summer residence is planned for winter living, then you need to insulate the floor. For this, ordinary foam is suitable, which simply fits into the gaps between the lags. The gaps formed after laying can simply be foamed with mounting foam.
Installation of the upper trim and wall cladding
The installation instructions for the upper trim contain the same points as for the installation of the lower trim. After completion of its installation, you can remove the temporary braces and finally strengthen the frame of the walls with permanent braces.
After that, in the bars of the upper trim, samples are made for the logs for the ceiling device. If desired, these lags can not be hidden, but rather turned into an interior detail. The logs should extend slightly beyond the walls, this will be needed when installing the rafters.
As for wall cladding, for this you can use an ordinary board, lining or siding - the choice depends more on the budget. But regardless of the material chosen for sheathing, you need to insulate the walls, especially since the price of insulation is not so high.
To do this, a heater, for example, mineral wool, is simply inserted between the racks of the frame. Then, a special film is fixed from the outside with a stapler (it allows moisture to pass in one direction), the battens of the crate are stuffed on top of it. And only after that the sheathing of the frame begins.
Roof frame device
The simplest and cheapest option is a flat roof. In this case, it is enough just to observe the desired slope even at the stage of assembling the wall frame. But the classic gable roof is much more common.
The rafter system is selected depending on the size of the house. So, for a small building, you can use a hanging system. In this case, the rafter legs rest only on the walls or on the logs.
A layered system will be needed if the house has internal load-bearing walls - additional supports are installed to prevent the rafters from sagging.
A crate (solid or trellised) is stuffed over the rafters and a waterproofing carpet is spread. After that, it remains only to fix slate, tile or any other coating on the slopes.
Children's country houses
They are a combination of a small house and a playground. Therefore, the main requirement here is the presence of imagination in parents. You can build a house for a child in the country with your own hands in just 1-2 days.
When working out the design of such a structure, you can use the following tips:
- you can make it 2-story, and place, for example, a sandbox on the lower floor;
- not superfluous will be a slide adjacent to the house;
- an external staircase to the second floor is required;
- you can equip it with a "warehouse" for toys (shovels, buckets, etc.).
Of course, a child will not live in such a house. The main purpose of the "new building" is a fun pastime with friends.
Block containers as a country house
Standard cargo containers can be used, unless, of course, the elongated shape of the future “home” is embarrassing. If desired, you can cut the side walls with a grinder, arm yourself with a welding machine and use the container frame as the basis for the house. Welding will require electricity, but renting a diesel generator for a summer residence will solve this problem.
Summarizing
The house is an integral part of any suburban area, in fact, this is exactly what distinguishes the cottage from a simple garden. A small house on a land plot will require a minimum of time and financial costs, but it will make outdoor recreation unforgettable and become a cozy corner for all relatives and friends.
In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.
In this article, we will look at how to build a frame garden house with our own hands on a suburban area. It will significantly increase the functionality of your cottage at a relatively small financial cost. You only need to perform a few assembly steps.
Construction works
Before starting construction work, you should draw up a project for the future house:
Step 1: project
A distinctive feature of the garden frame house is its small size, which is usually 4 by 4 or 6 by 6 meters. You can easily distribute such a small area for domestic needs yourself.
The following should be noted on the drawing:
- The exact dimensions of load-bearing walls and internal partitions.
- Hallway, kitchen, living room and bedroom. This is the minimum set of rooms that will allow you to use the building as a full-fledged housing.
- The location of stationary heavy furniture, as reinforcement under it may be required.
Tip: if you plan to use the building all year round, then you should immediately include the location of the stove in the project.
This will create a suitable microclimate for living even in winter.
- All windows and doors.
Step 2: foundation
When building any house, three options for the foundation are considered:
Taking into account the fact that in our project there is no basement and second floors, and the opportunity to save money is always welcome, we opt for laying a columnar base.
Instructions for performing the necessary work:
- We apply markings for the location of nine or more, depending on the layout, piles.
- We dig holes in the ground with a depth of one and a half meters and a section of twenty centimeters.
Tip: A drill can be used to create suitable holes in the ground. This way you can get the job done faster and more accurately.
- We insert the asbestos pipe so that its edges rise at least 15 cm above the level of soil freezing.
- We fall asleep at the bottom of a twenty-centimeter layer of sand cushion.
- We lay roofing material inside the walls of the pipe to create waterproofing.
- We install fittings.
- Fill with concrete mortar, the composition of which is shown in the following table:
| Ingredient | Ratio |
| Cement | 1 |
| Sand | 3 |
| rubble | 5 |
| Water | 4,5 |
After setting the cement, you can proceed to further work.
Step 3: frame
- We take a beam with a section of 150 by 100 mm and lay out the lower harness from it along the perimeter of the future building, as well as in the middle at the intersection of the rooms.
- We drill holes in the beam and concrete, after which we fix the strapping with self-tapping screws with dowels.
- Between ourselves, we knock down the wooden elements with nails, using the type of connection "in half a tree".
- Next, install the vertical beams.
- From above we connect all the racks together, thus forming the upper trim.
- We sheathe the resulting “skeleton” with a bar 100 by 100 mm.
Step 4: Roofing
For your project, a gable roof is best suited, which has an aesthetic appearance and excellent protection from atmospheric precipitation. To create rafters, we use beams with a section of 100 by 50 mm. From above, we cover the structure with boards 150 by 25 mm and sheets of roofing material.
Step 5: interior decoration
A do-it-yourself frame garden house will not be finished without interior work:
- Floor:
- We cover the ceiling and walls with clapboard. At the same time, additional insulation can also be made if you plan to come to the country house in winter.
The final stage is the supply of the necessary communications and. After that, you can safely invite guests to celebrate the completion of construction work.
Conclusion
The presence of a garden house on a country plot allows you to use it for temporary or even permanent residence, full-fledged reception of guests, storage of household supplies. It will also serve as a base building for builders in case of building a large cottage.
And most importantly, you can build it on your own without the involvement of specialists, the main thing is to be patient, attentive and follow the above recommendations. The video in this article will introduce you to additional information. Good luck with the installation work!
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Today, building technologies offer the construction of garden houses not only from classic materials (log, cinder block, brick), but also to use plywood sheets, OSB, aerated concrete blocks, foam blocks, timber, etc. as the main building material.
But it is plywood garden houses that have excellent soundproofing and heat-insulating characteristics, along with ease of work and inexpensive construction costs.
Another advantage of this construction is the ability to make a house out of plywood with your own hands. This allows you to significantly reduce the cost of attracting professional teams. However, it must be borne in mind that garden houses made of timber and plywood have some drawbacks, for example, the vulnerability of the latter to aggressive actions of the external environment. Accordingly, it is necessary to take additional measures to protect this building material, and this, in turn, increases costs.
Also, plywood is an unsafe building material for the inhabitants of the house in terms of the penetration of intruders. Therefore, when building a garden house from timber and plywood, external finishing work is required, for example, sheathing with siding, which, in addition to decorating, also hides the main material used in construction from prying eyes.
Country houses are built using frame technology, which is gaining more and more popularity in many countries of the world. This due to its main advantages:
But the wood that is used to build the house (boards for the roof sheathing, bars for the frame of the walls) must be dry, and the plywood sheets must have a minimum of chips along the edges. In addition, all wood materials are additionally subject to processing with special compounds that can provide the required fire safety, as well as protect against moisture.
Construction of a frame plywood house divided into the following steps:
- foundation construction;
- construction of the wall frame and plywood cladding;
- roofing device;
- warming;
- finishing works (internal and external).
Gallery: garden house (25 photos)
Tools
To build a house for you you will need the following tools:
Foundation laying
A massive foundation for a frame small garden house is not required, but for this the house must be made with strict adherence to all technologies. Reinforced concrete foundation blocks, a strip foundation with a recess, stuffed piles - all these types of foundations are suitable for starting the construction of a frame house. Usually, a tape type of foundation is used.
With significant differences in relief, it is best to use a pile foundation. This will make it possible to level the structure of the house and avoid distortions with minimal consumption of building materials and normal strength of the base.
Materials required to organize the foundation of a plywood house:
- crushed stone, sand;
- concrete (ready-made or its constituent elements: fine crushed stone, cement, sand);
- pipe for floor ventilation;
- reinforcing bars.
Before starting construction, you need to independently mark the territory and, with the help of pegs and a rope, mark the boundaries of the future structure. It is best that the place where the house will be installed is leveled. According to a given contour, they dig a trench with a width no more than 60 cm with a depth of 70 cm. This depth is enough to provide the required reliability and strength for a frame house. The bottom of the trench is rammed, then covered with a layer of sand and re-tamped.
Then a layer of fine gravel is poured and rammed. Such a pillow will evenly distribute the load and be able to provide waterproofing of the lower layer of the base. To improve the density of the pillow during the compaction of crushed stone and sand, a small amount of water is used. After that, you need to build a formwork, which can be made from boards, fixing them to each other with jumpers on nails. It is possible to prevent concrete leakage during the pouring of the foundation by using plywood sheets 7-8 mm thick as formwork.
After the foundation has dried and the formwork has been removed, these sheets can be used again. The height above ground level of the strip foundation should be approx 45-50 cm. In order for the formwork not to lose its shape during the pouring of concrete, the upper elements are interconnected by transverse rails.
The reinforcement is laid both across the formwork and along. Moreover, it is necessary to leave the ends of the reinforcing bars above the level of the foundation for the subsequent fixing of the frame. In several sections, a pipe is inserted into the formwork, the length of which is equal to the width of the foundation. This creates sufficient ventilation for the floor.
Then the foundation is poured with a ready-made concrete composition or crushed stone, sand, cement are kneaded into proportions 2:3:1 with water. During pouring, you need to tamp the solution a little to prevent the appearance of voids. The surface must be smoothed with a trowel or a rule so that the top layer of the base is as even as possible. When the foundation hardens (approximately one week, taking into account the depth and weather conditions), further construction can begin.
Frame and cladding
Then, in order to build a country house from plywood with your own hands, you need to assemble the frame. Frame construction is a step-by-step implementation of the following stages of work:
Warming
Do-it-yourself garden house insulation options.
Intra-wall
Styrofoam coat
Styrofoam brand C25 and more used for exterior wall decoration.
- The foam is fixed to the cement glue, while the glue beacons can compensate for the unevenness of the wall surface. For additional fastening of the plates, plastic dowel-umbrellas are used.
- The same cement glue is applied on top of the foam plastic with a wide spatula, then reinforcement is recessed into it - a fiberglass mesh with a cell size of 3x3 mm and a density of at least 170 g / sq.m. The mesh is glued with an overlap of strips of 70-80 mm.
- Then the mesh is covered with a layer of glue so as to hide its texture.
Subsequent finishing - at the discretion of the owner of the house. As a rule, the walls are finished with decorative plaster or painted with facade paint. Instead of polystyrene, glued mineral wool boards can be used. At the same time, they are much safer in terms of the spread of fire, however, they will cost much more.
Ventilated facade
If the vapor permeability of the walls is most important, then a ventilated facade is being made:
- A crate is constructed on the walls (using a galvanized profile or timber).
- Mineral wool slabs are inserted into the spacer between the elements of the crate or under it with fixation by dowel-umbrellas.
- From above the heater is closed by a wind-shelter membrane.
- After the facade is sewn up on the crate with siding.
Roof
For frame houses, light materials are used to cover the roof: corrugated board or soft tiles.
To the top rail truss beams attached, which are placed according to the level and are additionally fixed with jibs. The step between the beams should be no more than a meter. Then they make a crate with boards. The distance between the boards will depend on which roofing material is chosen. When soft tiles are used, the step between the boards of the crate is made small.
Then, when the crate is done, you need to lay a waterproofing layer. For which the roofing material is quite suitable, which is overlapped, the joints are fastened perpendicular to the crate and the roofing material is laid.
Finishing
Since the main material for the construction of a frame house is plywood, then interior and exterior decoration necessary. As an external finishing material, siding is best suited, which does not weigh the walls of the house much and is easy to install. A variety of textures and colors also speaks in its favor. In addition to siding, you can use wooden or plastic lining for external work.
For interior decoration materials can be decorative plaster, wallpaper, paint, tiles. But for applying certain finishes, you will need to install drywall sheets.
The presence of a garden house on a suburban area allows you to use it for permanent or temporary residence, storage of various accessories or a full-fledged reception of guests. Also he can serve as a base for the construction team in the case of the construction of a large cottage. And the most important thing is that you can do it yourself without the involvement of specialists, you only need attention, patience and compliance with all recommendations.
