Category: House and Cottage

How to lay infrared warm floor under the laminate?

Pros and cons of an infrared warm floor Before deciding to install a warm floor based on an infrared film, you need to understand its positive and negative qualities. The advantages of the material include: The film is located only in those places that are subject to heating. Spend ...

Choosing polyurethane foam for installing new windows

The installation technology of modern metal-plastic structures: windows, doors, glazings of balconies and loggias, involves the use of mounting foam. Foam for installing windows is a reliable sealing material that has established itself in the Russian climate, especially in conditions of freezing temperatures, ...

Do-it-yourself wooden step ladder

You do not know how to get to the high ceiling or to harvest from a large tree? An ordinary stepladder can help out in such cases. However, not everyone in the house may find such a device. It’s not worth running right after her to the store. After all, this instruction will tell you how to make a wooden stepladder ...

How much does the stretch ceiling fall during installation?

When choosing a stretch ceiling as a finishing material, apartment owners traditionally ask themselves the question: how much does the stretch ceiling fall from the floor slab, changing the usual perception of dimensions? It is especially important to find out this nuance with a low ceiling height in the apartment, since each ...

Methods for exterior decoration of a house made of SIP panels

The facade of the house is, so to speak, its face and the main task of the owners of the house is to preserve this face for many years. For this, decoration of houses from vulture panels using various materials and systems is used. It is important to know: the base is the most vulnerable part of the facade and it requires special ...

Technologies for building houses from timber: pros, cons, stages

Natural wood is environmentally friendly and incredibly noble, so it is valued at all times, despite the fact that the construction market has been occupied by innovative materials. The construction of timber houses for year-round or seasonal living has reached a qualitatively new level ...

Combined stairs to the second floor of the house

When planning the interior decoration of a country house, special attention should be paid to the arrangement of interfloor stairs. An original and reliable design is considered a combined staircase to the second floor, which will allow to realize the most daring interior solutions using various materials. ...

5 popular brands of roofing sheeting

Today it is very difficult to find at least one locality where homeowners do not know what a corrugated roofing is, even if this village is thousands of kilometers from the metropolis. Since this material went on sale, its popularity has only increased. Metal sheet ...

Selection of a ridge aerator for a soft roof and its installation

When erecting a roof, it is important to protect all structures from moisture. Materials such as wood or mineral wool are hygroscopic. The first, when saturated, begins to rot and lose its strength characteristics. The second accumulating water increases the mass, presses heavily on the roofing cake and ...

A practical example of calculating a strip foundation

The calculation of the foundation is a crucial stage in the preparation for construction. It is necessary to perform it in order to understand what section dimensions are needed, how much reinforcement is needed and what diameter. Before you correctly calculate the supporting part of the building, you will need to collect the initial data. It is from their accuracy ...

How to make a corner on the ceiling baseboard?

Installation of a decorative skirting board is the final stage of the ceiling decoration. The main problem here is that if mounting the baguette on straight sections of the walls usually does not cause difficulties, then it can be quite difficult to nicely fit the corner joints. Especially in cases ...

How to make a foundation for a fence from corrugated board?

The popularity of the use of colored and galvanized profiled steel for fencing areas is based on affordability, beautiful appearance and low weight of the material. However, any fence should be stable, strong, durable and not afraid of wind loads. To provide ...

How to lay a laminate - along or across a room?

Before starting flooring, each owner faces a dilemma: how to lay a laminate - along or across the room? This issue is really important, since proper installation of lamellas allows you to create a single floor space without visual differences and highlighting places ...

Pros and cons of vinyl laminate

What is a vinyl laminate and what is its feature In order to understand what it is, you need, first of all, to study the structure of a vinyl laminate. The basis of quartz-vinyl lamellas are: polyvinyl chloride; quartz sand; plasticizers providing product flexibility; protective stabilizers ...

Features of wall insulation made of expanded clay concrete

It is important to ensure proper thermal insulation at home. This will prevent premature destruction of load-bearing structures and reduce heating costs.In the building materials market, there are now many products for creating wall fences. All of them have different thermal insulation properties....

The use of plasticizers for cement mortar

Plasticizing additives for concrete make it possible to obtain a more plastic mortar, allowing you to perform critical construction work. Using a plasticizer, it is possible to reduce the amount of water in the mixture, since the required consistency of the solution is achieved while maintaining the strength characteristics ...

How to make a cesspool for the toilet in the country?

Where to place the toilet on the site When designing a cesspool for a country toilet, you should carefully approach the issue of choosing a place for it on the garden site. First of all, measurements are carried out in accordance with the requirements of SNiP 2.04.03-85 “Sewerage. External networks and structures ”(in particular, ...

Making interior doors with your own hands

The quality of the proposed interior doors, which can be purchased in most construction stores, can not always satisfy buyers. They can be beautiful, attractive, but the strength and durability of these products leaves much to be desired. Therefore, many home masters do not ...

DIY brick foundation

The foundation is the most important building structure, responsible for the safety and durability of the entire structure. The construction of the base requires almost a third of all the money allotted for the construction of the house, and private developers often use bricks to reduce costs. If you decide to build a foundation ...