Do-it-yourself frame house walls

Frame houses are usually built either from wood or metal. Metal frame walls are much lighter because they are made of a lightweight profile. The assembly of prefabricated steel structures is done according to pre-planned drawings, which are designed at the factory.

You can assemble such a house with your own hands in a few days. Despite the fact that this design reduces the load on the foundation, the price of such a house will be almost twice as much as a similar timber frame. Any structure can be built from wood, it can be a bathhouse or a beautiful two-story frame house.

The walls of a frame house are canvases of load-bearing racks, battens, insulation, vapor barrier and finishing material. The initial work on the construction of the walls can begin only after the floor of the building is completely ready. At the same time, the floor structure must be precisely aligned in a horizontal plane in order to avoid distortions of the walls.

Before you make a frame, you need to calculate the height of the ceiling, taking into account all the interior decoration. It is difficult to heat a floor that is too high, and no one needs an overrun of materials. A small height will create an uncomfortable atmosphere indoors.

Externally, frame houses look very attractive due to the use of natural materials and the correct proportions. Several beautiful two-story frame houses, which were made by the owners themselves, are shown in the photo.

To build a residential building, you must have a project on hand, or at least a preliminary sketch. These data are needed in order to calculate the consumption of materials, order the required volume and correctly perform all nodal connections.

OSB boards serve to level the inner or outer surface of the walls and are used as a base for finishing. It is impossible to build a frame from OSB; load-bearing structures must be made of durable timber.

Sheathing with OSB boards is done end-to-end. The seams between the plates can be filled with sealant. The slabs are fastened with nails so that the outgoing end of the nail enters the crate or frame at a distance not less than the thickness of the slab.

If you build a light house with your own hands, a wooden frame with OSB boards is one of the best options. In order for the frame house to function properly, it is necessary to provide for the correct thermal insulation and vapor barrier. In a frame house, especially with the use of OSB boards, this is the most important link, without which the house will quickly collapse.

Despite the fact that the frame house is assembled with whole walls, like an ordinary designer, during construction one cannot do without additional costs for unforeseen situations. Independent work significantly reduces the budget, the main thing is to save not on the quality of materials, but on their cost.

Before you build a frame, you need to study the drawings. The location of the bearing racks is carried out depending on the load from the elements of the building located above. The smaller the distance between the posts, the stronger the wall will be for vertical loads.

Vertical racks are attached to the floor with special pins. To provide the racks with the necessary stability, temporary braces are mounted on both sides, which are fastened with nails to the elements of the floor and the rack.

After the main racks are installed, it is necessary to check their compliance with the design position. Next, retaining bars are mounted that hold the strapping beam along the top. In places where interior partitions are provided, supports should also be installed and sheathed with either OSB sheets or crates.

The fastening of short bars is always done with a tongue and groove on half the board. This ensures the tensile strength of the connection. The vertical frame must be untied with horizontal bars.

After installing all the elements of the frame, temporary braces are gradually removed and replaced with permanent ones from a durable beam. These slopes must be in the plane of the wall. They give the frame additional stability.

To build a house with your own hands, you need to learn the correct technological sequence. First, a project is developed, the terrain and the ability of the soil to perceive the load are studied. Some soils are so weak that ordinary houses cannot be built on them.

After that, the type of foundation is selected. Here it is important to determine the depth of soil freezing and lay the base of the foundation below this mark, so that in winter the soil, swelling, does not squeeze out the base structure.

Under the frame house, pile foundations with a grillage are most often made. The upper edge of the grillage must be carefully aligned, if this was not achieved the first time, beacons should be installed and a layer of leveling mortar should be laid along the guides.

Then the floor is laid, the space between the lags is filled with insulation. On the finished floor, the installation of walls begins. On top, a strapping beam is laid around the perimeter of the building. If the building is not being built one-story, they make an overlap and repeat the procedure in the same way as the first floor.

The final stage in the construction of the supporting structures of the house is the construction of the roof. After that, you can start finishing work.

Insulation in a frame house should be performed only after a heat engineering calculation. The selection of materials determines how cozy and comfortable it will be inside the house. The insulation is placed between the crate, to which the exterior trim will be attached. A frame house should be built after the selection of materials for thermal insulation.

The installed insulation must be protected from moisture, otherwise after a couple of years its effectiveness will completely disappear and the house will quickly collapse. Every day the deterioration of the insulation will increase the cost of heating the entire building.

You need to know how to properly protect the insulation. This information is always indicated on insulating products. In most cases, it is enough to install a vapor barrier on top of the insulation, before the exterior finish.

It is important to use specialized materials for vapor barrier here, because they have a layered structure and are able to pass air, but not moisture. The use of ordinary polyethylene destroys the entire system of proper construction. The film does not allow the building to "breathe". This leads to the appearance of condensation and fungus on wooden structures, even if they are impregnated with special protective solutions.

The Build and Live program is becoming popular in our country. Having plunged a little into the construction technology, you can do all the work yourself and in a few months call in your own house.

Building a house with whole walls begins with the preparation of the base and the supporting frame. Finished walls are not load-bearing elements, but only hinged. The load on the foundation is transferred by the racks of the frame. It is desirable to make the walls themselves as light as possible in order to reduce the pressure on the foundation part.

The assembly of finished walls is carried out on a separate rack, which has a flat surface. Particular attention should be paid to the butt joints, they must be carefully fitted so that during the installation process, the formation of open areas that will subsequently have to be sealed with sealant is excluded.

The assembly of entire walls is carried out only according to pre-prepared drawings. Otherwise, it will not be possible to correctly ensure the bearing capacity of the frame. The weight of each finished wall is summed up, part of it acts on the racks, the rest of the pressure is transferred to the foundation.

Drawings are developed individually for each construction. Even existing standard projects must be tied to the terrain, taking into account the features of the soil and topography.

A set of drawings undergoes an expert check for the quality and correctness of the decisions made. Only after that construction according to drawing recommendations is allowed.

The drawings give a complete picture of where which elements need to be installed, how to fix, at what distance to connect. A small sketch from a full-fledged project is shown in the photo.

Not only the architect is involved in the development of the project, but also the design engineer, who calculates the structures for strength and stability. This ensures that the building will last a long time and reliably.