Houses made of concrete

advantages and disadvantages of monolithic houses of concrete

First, let's list the advantages of monolithic construction:

• Monolithic house due to its design, has a special strength
• Due to its solidity in the walls of the house there is no cold bridges, and thereforethe room will be longer retains heat
• Another feature of the house is a large insulation
• when designing, you can use various geometric shapes, as concrete is poured into the frame during the construction of the wall and the frame can be made of any you liked the form
• relatively small financialconstruction costs
• High
• speed of construction When used in casting light blends do not need a strong deepening of the foundation
• Due to uniform filling cracks in the structure goes to zero
• build High-quality concrete with their hands at any time of the year

Now move on to the list of drawbacks:

• For the whole house need grounding, because the walls are made with metal reinforcement
• When erecting walls with permanent shuttering should bear in mind that you have to do ventilation, otherwise the house will notbreathe
• for pouring concrete on the height required, which costs money.Therefore, when building a house with two or more floors, you need to consider the fact that without such a concrete pump you can not do
• Great effort spent on frame welds on all the features of the project, and even work becomes much more time-consuming when you need to project concrete slab
• when creating permanent shuttering styrofoam is used, and it is during combustion emits large amounts of harmful toxic substances.It should definitely be taken into account and grout wall in a construction site with a permanent shuttering

Monolithic house with his own hands

Create project future monolithic structure and to choose between the removable and non-removable formwork should be based on many factors.These include your area of ​​residence, the terrain on which construction is expected, as well as your other personal preferences.

The most convenient option is a permanent shuttering as monolithic house in this case is based on the principle of "Lego".Most often selected as permanent shuttering hollow blocks made of polystyrene.At the foundation is laid the first row of blocks in the voids laid reinforcement for greater strength.Then, the empty space is filled with concrete mix.After the mixture dries, the second row of blocks is laid, which is further enhanced reinforcement and filled mixture.This procedure is repeated until the desired height of the erection of walls.

As the concrete mix can be used expanded clay lightweight concrete, aerated concrete, arbolit, cinder, perlitobeton.By varying the type of concrete can differentiate between the different wall properties, such as vapor permeability, total weight, heat retention, and so forth.

Ease of construction in such a way can be very alert, but there are no "buts".Build a wall with permanent shuttering, you save on the additional insulation of the walls, creating excellent sound insulation, and as a result get a solid monolithic structure.

situation is not much more complicated formwork case.First, it creates a framework, based on the prepared project.Formwork, which is attached to the frame, most commonly used materials such as wood, iron, plastic and plywood.The distance between the walls of the formwork must be leveled thickness of your future monolithic wall.

When the frame is assembled and welded smoothly and shuttering tightly and firmly sewn to it, you can begin to fill.Here one approach is necessary to pour about 40 cm layer of concrete.After giving each approach to freeze overnight.Then lift the formwork to the next level and fill similarly.

Note.Particular attention should be paid to seal the concrete, this procedure is a special building vibrator.Most concrete to be compressed at the corners and bends in the design, in order to increase the strength of the structure.

After the walls are built, you need to give them time to complete drying.This time is in the range of 4-5 weeks.Also, during this time the walls of a little sit down and continue to rush the construction site did not.If you create an additional burden, such as the erection of a roof or a frame to the roof, then the walls of the structure can give a crack or a slight nod.

Note.In case of intensive sun moisturize the concrete walls of water.Otherwise, the concrete will quickly shrivel and crack.Best of all, when the concrete dries slowly and gradually.

Wall insulation

When constructing a permanent shuttering, you may not pay much attention to this procedure.Suffice it to plaster walls, make them fire resistant.But with removable formwork need to decide what method to use when you.You can make a simple warming with warm plaster or fiberglass, but the most successful method - it kolodtsevoy facade.

Under kolodtsevoy facade brick facade lining is understood a short distance from a monolithic wall, after which the remaining distance between the brickwork and the monolith is filled with insulation.This method is the most appropriate, as the house becomes breathable quality, that is, the summer will be stable to heat in the winter to the frost.This means that the wall will keep warm in winter and in summer to maintain a pleasant coolness.

materials List

acquainted with all of the above, the question arises as to what materials will be needed during the construction?To this question the best answer would be a complete list of required materials, which includes:

• components of the concrete mix
• (for every situation they will be different, it is selected on the basis of the territorial factors and the environment in which the building will be carried out) Containers and equipmentfor mixing the concrete pouring
• reinforcement to strengthen
• Metal parts for chassis
• bolts, nuts, studs
• material for removable formwork (steel, aluminum, wood, plastic)
• material for permanent formwork (hollow blocks made of foam polystyrene)
• mesh or fine fittings for reinforcement (the reinforcement is to increase structural strength)