How much does it cost to maintain a 2-storey house. Now I understand why you can't go broke

I have a 2-storey house: 1st floor is facing brick, foam plastic (non-extruded expanded polystyrene 10 cm, half-baked ceramic brick 25 cm, plaster 2 cm. 2nd floor: facing brick, air gap 3 cm, aerated concrete block D500, thickness. 30 cm, plaster 10mm.

The house is 7 years old, there are no cracks, blowing, freezing, leaks and gnawing. However, in summer, on the first floor, the difference of 5-6 degrees is noticeably cooler, in winter it is noticeably warmer by the same values.

Therefore, I think with the specified thresholds of the walls, the advantage of the construction of the first floor in terms of comfort is obvious, but in terms of costs, the construction of 1 floor surpasses the construction of the second floor by at least 30-35% of the construction of the second floor due to the labor intensity of bricklayers, the consumption of mortar, thickness plaster. In addition, brick walls require a more powerful and expensive foundation (also by about 40%).

However, despite the noticeable high cost of the construction of the first floor, operating costs for heating and cooling (in summer) are lower by about 20-30 percent. Conclusions: if you want to build a house quickly and not expensively on your own, I would recommend aerated concrete block with a strength grade of at least D500 and a thickness of at least 40 (if you will additionally insulate outside).

If you do not insulate, then at least 60 cm, otherwise the costs of heating and cooling the house will be the same or more than for an apartment with central heating, of the same area. If you plan to hire bricklayers for construction, then you can build from brick, using the sandwich technology, as I described above, or purely brick hollow, but with a wall thickness of at least 75-100 cm (if you do not live in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories), otherwise you will go broke with further exploitation.

Naturally, the foundation for such walls will be much more expensive than for aerated concrete. In any case, I strongly recommend plastering the walls at least from the inside. It turns out that at first you spend more on construction, but you pay less for maintenance and vice versa.

In my Astrakhan region, at temperatures in winter - 15 at night and - 10 during the day, the cost of heating a house of 170 m2, the temperature inside 24-25 degrees per month is 2900-3100 rubles for 30 days. For an apartment with central heating 78m2 - 6800 rubles regardless of the temperature outside +10 or - 15 degrees!

Author: Vasily Vinokurov. "Send your articles to [email protected], and we will publish them!"

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