Replacing the lower rims of the wooden house

House of wood - certainly reliable and structure, but even he has weaknesses.A few of the lower house of rims, especially mortgage crown with a confluence of time arrive in dilapidated state.This is due to various errors inlet construction and operation.Getting wet lower crown comes from snowmelt and rain water due to poorly executed foundation waterproofing.Also today, one can still find a large number of old wooden houses, in which there is no foundation at all.

Replacing the lower rims of a wooden house requires a fairly significant financial cost, and the work itself complex and time-consuming.Often, simple calculations show that the new building on the site of the old house will be cheaper than repair.However, in some situations it would be appropriate to replace crowns.Such a situation may arise when the house is an architectural monument or a road, as the memory of ancestors.

Several ways to replace the lower rims house

make replacement rims home is only inviting professionals, or at least when they are unattended.For errors in technology may lead to the destruction of the entire house, its roof, ceilings or chimneys.In carrying out such work you need to know some of the nuances that we present below.

Before starting any work is to understand that technology is the repair of a wooden house depends on many conditions: the size of the house, technical condition of the foundation and themselves crowns, enough space near the building, the presence of adjoining outbuildings under the same roof with the house, the presence of the chimney, and many other factors.

Replacing rotted part of the crown without lifting house

often happen situations where the need to replace only a small part of the timber, since it is not all rotten.In this case there is no need to replace the entire timber.This is especially shown in finding the house on the tape base, from which it is very difficult to raise the house without destroying part of the foundation.

• primarily by eye to determine where the most damaged area.

• Thereafter, using chisels examine how infiltrated the rot of timber.Clears the either side of the damage.More often than not using a chisel revealed that the damage to the area much larger than the one visible to the naked eye.
• From the edges of the damaged area back down to 50 cm on both sides and set the wooden ties to a height of 2 - 3 crown.For this purpose, you can use the board thickness of 40 mm, which is necessary to arrive at the log cabins inside and out.In the first and the last crown ties drilled holes into which is inserted through tie-rods with a diameter of about 12 mm.

• damaged timber portion Scrollsaw chainsaw and remove it.
• The repaired crown notch groove width of 20 cm for the reliability of the connection with a new insert.
• From logs of the same diameter Scrollsaw insert equal to the length of sawn site with the same gashes on the ends.
• Install insert in place of the damaged area.To help here comes the sledgehammer, which should be hitting through
• bar in place on the edges of cuttings pasted logs drilled three holes and insert them in the wooden pins to fasten the old and the new timber.
• In the process, do not forget to caulk all cracks with moss, jute or hemp.

Thus it is possible not only to replace one damaged area, but the entire lower crown, including corners.It is understood that a crown will not be sufficiently reliable, in contrast to the whole, therefore, to use this technology complete replacement of the crown is only in extreme cases, either as a temporary measure.

Complete replacement of the lower house of rims

Complete replacement of rims is quite time-consuming, as it implies to sort out the whole frame.To do this, you need to in the house no one lived, for example, in the case of the restoration of an old abandoned house, baths or even the new framework.Often resorted to such a method, the replacement of the upper crowns log Roofing, who suffered from excessive moisture.

Replacing damaged brickwork crown

Bring the brickwork under the wooden house is possible, as with the structure of a show, and without it.It depends on the type of foundation at home, by age and size of the funds you want to invest in its repair.In the case where the house no foundation in general, and it lies on the ground, can be done without lifting.To do this, cut out the damaged areas and formed openings filled masonry, the upper surface of which is to rest against a solid beam of the upper crown.

So gradually you can change all the masonry lower crown, alternately removing its parts and replacing them with bricks.In this case, the operation should begin with angles providing more reliable support in these areas.Benefits brickwork well manifested in the case of an inclined position of the house.In this case, some rims, and only the highest point place can be changed to the lowest section of masonry.

In case the foundation of the house, it must be lifted with a few jacks.Suit as screw or hydraulic, although the latter is preferred.First, lifting the corners is carried out gradually enclosing under them support.When the house is raised to the required height, the foundation surface is cleaned, and spread it on the brickwork.In carrying out such a procedure, the doors and windows must be removed be sure not to damage them.

Partial dismantling of strip foundation

above method with a show house may be applied only if the columnar foundations.If it is a tape, then lift the house without partial destruction will not work, because there is no place to install jacks.In this case, 70 cm from each corner need hollow recess in the monolith, such that they can enter into the jacks.Rests jacks should be in good crowns, so the lower you need to cut it out in places of installation of jacks.It should be noted that instead of the jack is sometimes possible to use a long tube as a lever.However, it is acceptable for the construction of a light weight, such as a bath or a small country house.

Log cabin lift 7 - 10 cm, then take out the old rotten logs are replaced with new ones.After that repair damaged areas of the foundation.The disadvantage of this method is that the destruction of the foundation, after which the strength of the repair is greatly reduced.

Lifting jacks houses made of wood and hanging on special devices

order to make full repairs of rims and foundation of the house must be completely lifted on jacks.Well, if the house is located on the pier foundation.This makes it possible to do without destruction.Between the columns simply set a solid foundation for a jack, which can be made of concrete block.

all in the first place need to saw a piece of the old logs or multiple logs.For example, by replacing the three bottom rims should be drank three logs, put the jack and rest against it in strong beam of the fourth crown.This method is considered the most reliable and is used most often.

Sometimes it is advisable to put up a house on specially manufactured for this purpose structures made of metal.They are made specifically for a particular house size.This option requires a qualitative repair of a wooden house or a complete replacement of the foundation.

construct made of metal U-sections and slid under the frame.First, raise the frame to multiple jacks, and then lowered onto the solid support of the U-sections.It is noteworthy that this arrangement fulcrum placed outside carcass, which is more convenient and help to leave home in a suspended state until the concrete is not yet fully dried up.

Detailed instructions for raising the house to replace the rims

Since the lifting of the house on jacks to replace the rims is the most common option, then consider it in more detail.Please note that the process is quite complex and time-consuming, so for the production of these works is better to hire a team of professional builders.Expenses for execution of works in this case, you need to plyusovat materials costs.

Before you lift the house should be carefully prepared:

• Remove the frame and door panels, and even the box.
• carried out of the house all the furniture.
• In the case of tie-in sex mortgage crown it must be completely removed or set on columns, separated from the crown.If the joists are attached to the wall above, the disassembly is required.
• located in the house of the furnace must be installed on separate foundations.Otherwise, the house does not lift without dismantling furnaces.
• Chimneys should be separated from the roof and ceilings.

• remaining crowns are held together at home with the help of boards 40 mm thick, which is 50 cm away from the corner of the house nailed to chop down vertically.Boards should be placed on the inside and the outside of the carcass.The upper and lower ends of the boards fix through-pegs, in order to avoid deformation of the walls when picked up.

After completion of the preparatory work necessary to clear the area near the house for convenience.Roof extensions to the house it is necessary to separate from the main building, that it is not destroyed.Further work is performed, depending on the type of foundation.

When pier foundation

lift the house, which stands on the pier foundation is much easier and more convenient.

• Cooking niche for the jack, which sometimes have to make a tunnel.

• Under jack constructed strong support.
• head of a jack rests on the bottom "healthy" beam through a metal pad.Take

need 4 jacks, one for each side.They are set at a distance of 80 - 100 cm from the corners of the house.When

strip foundations

is possible even in this case do without the destruction of the foundation, but you have to make a lot of effort:

• The replaceable crowns Scrollsaw windows, under which it would be possible to have a lever-beam.
• Inside the house the floor is necessary to disassemble the lever is loosely fitted underground.

• As this lever can be used beam, channel, or the scaffold.
• Jacks put outside the house close to the foundation.
• The box is inserted under the inner lever and the edge set a firm foundation of concrete block or stack of boards.
• outer end of the lever is placed on the jack.
• Next jack lever is raised, and after him the whole house.At this time you need to put a wedge between the foundation and surface hovering house.

After lifting the house by replacing the rotten logs crown.Please note that the levers can be lifted only by all parties in turn.Also, after completion of the work will have to close up the technological gap, through which the plant lever.

Replacement logs crown

Once home posted on jacks, you can begin to replace the rims.Each row consists of the upper and lower beams connected at the corners.Jacks should rest on top of the log, which frees the bottom of the log, which can be easily removed.Instead, they should put a temporary supports, which stem from the next aisle.

• now be omitted jacks, with whom falls the beam and top dressing.It must also be removed.
• establish new ones that need to be customized at the place instead of the upper logs dressings.
• upper beam is mounted on jacks and is isolated konopatochnym material.
• Next jack must be raised together with the log, the log is pressed against the next crown.
• Lifting jack just above, together with the house, you need to remove the temporary supports on all the walls.

• Now we have to insert the sill beam, which is tedious planed and fit a response log.
• put it then on the jacks and konopatochnym material and up, pressing for a return log.

At this time, the released jacks on adjacent walls should be omitted.Before it is required to repair and seal the entire surface of the foundation for the prevention of damage to the wood in the future.

Thus, the replacement of rims in a wooden house is quite time-consuming affair, but subject to all the technology is quite feasible.