frame house forum

[baltazar]

The erection of house does not require any major construction equipment and the availability of a labor force. This saves. But a plus is not only that. You've seen what happens on building sites in and around them: a mud, deep ruts, a damaged appearance, etc. Maybe it's natural beauty inspired you to build there. A recovery? Again the costs. The frame construction to avoid it and keep the original beauty of the area.
It will take years. In addition to problems of a complete overhaul in stone houses there is also a questions with a reconstruction, an extension of new rooms, as well as a demolition of old houses. So, to attach a guest room or to expand a living room, you have to arrange a major excavation of basement ( after all brick walls are hard - for example, a square meter of wall weighs about 360-400 kg (102 bricks of 3, 5 kg, without a mortar, and a reinforcing mesh), to provide an access for a heavy machinery, to hire a team which will work about 2-3 months straight at your side. In short, one summer is gone. A if you do an addition on the same frame technology, you can limit the minimum pier foundation (the weight of 1 square meter of wall is about 30-70 kg even if the wall "shrinks", with a 10-ton car jack you can everything correct), to do the same work yourself with a friend or a relative for a couple of weeks without the involvement of professional employees for a substantially less money, not breaking your favorite site!

[bill]

You can begin a finishing work almost immediately after the construction of house. Finished frame rails almost do not shrink, although let the house stand for a week.
Will the frame house an unfinished frame house? If you can afford to invite a competent building team, they will handle for 2-3.5 months, and with a decoration work. And who is working on its own, as you understand, it all depends on your desire, enthusiasm and perseverance. If you do business with passion, and it goes well. Think about the possibilities of personal construction: to learn new skills, because each node of your home passes through your hands and your heart. It must be just such a house with a deep sense of awareness can be called "MY HOUSE".
Here is another positive point: you can build even at the absence of good roads, and in any place. I should add: at any time of year - at the heart of building technology there is no "wet" processes.

[Summer]

Let’s consider possible disadvantages of a frame house. For example, a durability.
The chief interest of all people is: how long would stay a frame house? Different sources give different figures. Moreover, the number ranges from 30 to 100 years or more. The first figure is even somehow frightening. But if you build a "hack", the house will stand so, but if you build by conscience - that is for centuries. In Europe there are solid frame houses. Here we get to the disadvantage of frame houses and primarily we begin with the problems affecting a longevity. The basis of the house is a frame. And then, how much it is securely collected, dried and protected in the process of preparation will affect the term of its service. With respect to the assembly there is a different, even contradictory advice. Someone advices only compounds wood -wood, rejecting the possibility of wood-metal. You can take any direction, but for many years, methods have been developed of solving problems that the stiffness of the frame not suffered.

[expert]

Another problem is a rotting carcass. Many people are afraid of potential susceptibility to a wood rotting. The problem is obvious, a solution is clear: the lower the moisture in the wood, the better. The difficulty may appear with a search of a really properly dried wood and, as usual, with the human factor: there will be one percentage of moisture, but in reality another one. What should be that figure? Construction firms say: 9 to 15%. In some documents, 22%. In the building books: no more than 25%. Repeat again the conclusion: the smaller the better. And at the same time the frame is impregnated with a special fire defense. The frame has a hidden location. The durability of the building itself is no less dependent on the life of insulation, internal engineering systems (pipes, heating systems, etc.) and an obsolescence, finally! Term of the house overhaul, like any other system determined by the minimum durability of its main elements, i.e. it must be evaluated "in the narrow place." So, after 30-50 years, and in a frame or a brick house, insulated from the outside or inside of walls, the insulation should be changed - but to replace it in a brick house you should disassemble the house, or rather to break (otherwise you will change the insulation from an external facade?!), to hire a crew for "rather big money" for the breakup, and then again to restore broken! In frame houses the replacing of insulation (as well as pipes, wires, vent boxes, damaged structural elements) can be performed simply, cheaply and quickly: unscrew the screws, remove the sheetrock, pull down the old insulation (a pipe or a wire, etc.) and put a new, closed GCR, to twist screws. And so on! And you can do it yourself, without the involvement of builders, not "evict" for an indefinite time from the house. It is so in the North America - there are people still living in frame houses built in the early 1700 s – a cladding, a roofing and an insulation were replaced more than once, and the frame is still the same as original!

[Summer]

And as for a fire hazard. Wood is not only afraid of rotting, but a fire. To prevent these elements you should treat the future construction before the assembly with special solutions. Otherwise, the joints will not be protected. There is also another option. You can build a frame made of a laminated wood. It will be stronger, more resistant to decay, but it is a severe blow to your wallet content. By the way, the fire safety requirements for the frame house have a limitation: a maximum of a two-storeyed house and not more than 400 m2 of a living space. With regard to the consequences of fire, then the owner of a frame house is much more advantages than the owner of a brick. The fact that after the fire, any design comes into disrepair, whether it is wood or masonry. Anyway, the question of a conflagration disposal of. From the frame house (and indeed the wooden house) we get very little, roughly, "to sweep away the dust and ashes" from a foundation and start building. If you burn out a stone house (a floor and a roof are also, as a rule, of wood, and usually, an interior design is burned, a furniture, furnishings, a clothing, and people at 70-85% of cases die from a carbon monoxide and other combustion products), but then to demolish it would not be not so easy - again we should have a team of jackhammers, bulldozers, excavators, and even to pay for the removal of several trucks of stone and concrete debris. In a word, and after its "death", the stone house makes for a "pay a full bill."

[expert]

I would like to say about ecology. It is a double parameter. That is a plus of a frame house, and it is its not hidden fact but, define yourself. Now, many people are concerned about the desire to live in clean homes. Using synthetic materials you can not achieve a desired result. While we may assure the safety of material, but it is believed that natural is better (but more expensive). You decide, using what kind of materials you can.
But this is not just a problem of a frame house.
Let’s say, who between producers will give you a guarantee of the sustainability of a brick wall? Yes, and in a brick or a wooden house the insulation also applied, and the environmental friendliness in the first place, depends precisely on them ... And what about not "breathing" walls? It is especially a normal or bad climate, a presence or an absence of condensation, a moisture or a dryness, etc. etc.
1. To see possible solutions to this problem, I recommend a look here, where a colleague Igor Antipov clearly tells the story of foams with an open-pore structure and a water vapor coefficient about 0.05 that doesn’t require a vapor barrier.
2. Another solution to the problem is a deposition of frame, floors and rafters Ecowool / UNIZOL, which also allows the wall "breathing" and does not require a vapor barrier ...
3. There is an Arbol - kind of a foam concrete (a cement, chips, a liquid crystal).

[bill]

A soundproofing. Many people are concerned about this aspect of frame houses. To begin with, IN a NORMAL frame house a noise isolation can be done. The question remains with a desire, time and finances. I personally was in the frame house with a NORMAL soundproofing, the sound is extinguished thorough). Issues of noise and vibration control removed by structural (for example, a device of a "floating" floor (from the OSB, gypsum fiber board panels or concrete ties) on the basis of vibration noise insulation of walls, a plasterboard lining, etc.) and planning decisions (by extending noisy and sleeping areas, their division on built-in wardrobes, dressing rooms, support facilities, etc.). The main problem with soundproofing arises when builders or customers decide to save money on soundproofing interior walls and ceilings.