Overview of a frame house with a curtain facade made of blocks

A number of interesting solutions (more common in Canada and Alaska) are used in this frame house. The house itself is one-volume, i.e. under one roof there is a house, a parking lot, a covered veranda, utility rooms.

External dimensions are 21.5 x 10 m. Warm contour 10x10 m. The house is one-story, designed for year-round living up to -45C for a family of 2-4 people. The house stands on 73 screw piles d108x4 mm with a depth of approximately 2.2 m. The pile field is reinforced with channel # 24, a strapping bar goes along it, then logs 200x50 mm.

Along the logs on top, there is a rough floor made of DSP 20mm. EPPS of 250 mm is laid on the CSP in three layers, with foam gluing of each joint (in terms of thermal conductivity, this approximately corresponds to basalt wool 300 mm thick). A three-layer reinforced concrete screed, approximately 150 mm thick, with an underfloor heating cable laid between the layers, is poured onto the EPS. There is a separate stove for each room.

About the frame. Today it is one of the warmest types of houses. The walls are assembled from racks 200x50 mm. On the inside there are 2 layers of vapor barrier and rough walls made of 36 mm floor boards. From the outside there is a wind shield, a ventilation gap of 50 mm, then a DSP slabs of 10 mm. They, together with the floorboards on the walls, gave the frame amazing rigidity. The low heat capacity of the frame house has been eliminated. The house has 15 tons of concrete heated to 26-27 C and 7 tons of wood at room temperature inside the thermal circuit. It's better than a log. Ceiling height 3.3 m.

Initially, it was planned to make a wet facade on the DSP (I wanted to try it), but this is a useless exercise - over time, there will be cracks on the facade. Then a new material appeared, the Houston tongue-and-groove brick with dry installation. I surrounded the house outside with it.

Many people believe that a stone facade on a frame with screw piles cannot be installed. Let's count. The entire façade weighs less than 10 tons and contains more than 20 piles around the perimeter. This is less than 0.5 tons per pile. The piles are designed for a load (on my soil) of 4-4.5 tons, and they are loaded for 1.5-2 tons. Even the calculated snow load of 15-20 tons is significantly higher than the weight of the facade.

It turned out great. Outside is a stone house. Wooden inside. Moreover, a fairly thick board easily allows you to hang heavy kitchen shelves, water tanks and other heavy objects.

The attic is not residential. There are cables (one machine - one consumer), ventilation ducts. In the attic between the logs (step 400 mm) 200 mm of basalt wool was laid and another 100 mm from above with a single carpet.

Screw piles with a wall of 4mm, installed correctly, live easily up to 50 years. For those who are going to live longer, there is a very good and inexpensive way. We used it to protect metal structures in seawater. It consists in connecting a zinc electrode to the pile field. It must be buried in the ground in the wettest place and changed every 7-10 years. And the piles will live forever.

Mice in vent. clearance. The problem is easily solved by closing the vent gap with a punching thin metal tape. There are no mice in principle. And the neighbors have a log full. There it is difficult to compact the floor where it meets the logs.

Phenol in basalt wool and its subsidence over time. Use cotton wool with a density of 80 or more and it will not sag, well, overlap the layers. As for phenol, I think two layers of vapor barrier and 36 mm of wood will force phenol (if there is such a danger) to come out from the side of the vent gap.

Heating with electric underfloor heating. I have heating only with warm floors. As much as possible, the temperature dropped to -37C 3 or 4 years ago. Then I exposed the floors at 28 C. Mainly floors 26 gr. C (at a temperature overboard from 0 to -10 gr. C), if below -10C - I put 27C. In the house 24C. If the temperature is above 0C, I turn on the floors only at night.

I pay for heating 1000 - 1700 rubles. in the winter months. The house has the correct orientation to the cardinal points and a 3x3 m window is enough to warm up the house during the day, even in cloudy weather. Window with two-chamber double-glazed windows (3 glasses).

Why heating with electricity, and not a boiler with pipes in a screed? The boiler and pipes are more expensive. Additional room is needed. In my experience, cables are more reliable (I have not seen quality cables fail, but I have seen problems with pipes). In addition, the survivability of 6 cables is higher than that of one boiler with a pump and other equipment. But that's my opinion. Heating is a complex topic.

Prices and installation principle of this facade system - in the previous articles:

The facade is made of tongue-and-groove bricks. Manufacturer Comments

New building material: block curtain facade

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