DIY aerated concrete house: floor in three months. I tell you why I build so slowly

I heard from examples when brigades build houses from aerated concrete at a rate of two weeks per floor. And the box of the house is built from pouring the foundation to the roof in 3-4 months.

In 2.5 months, I was able to build only a floor with my own hands (I finish the inner walls and it will remain to fill the armopoyas). The foundation was poured; this season, he began to lay the walls from May 15. The start was excellent. In almost a month, 9 rows of masonry were erected.

I built it to this level in two months, working mainly in the evenings. The main limiting factors are the weather. It's a very rainy summer this year. There was not a single week without rain. And it happened that it rains for 1-2 days. There was no swimming season - the water in the lakes simply did not warm up. Leaves on birches began to turn yellow in July. July felt like the end of August.

But the weather is not the main thing in the speed of my construction. I did not consider what to build from blocks of aerated concrete, 400 mm wide - slower than from 300 mm. They are heavier and take longer to lay:

Even cutting such a block is 1.5 times longer than a 300 mm block. I noticed that the laying of the internal load-bearing wall of 300 mm blocks is faster than the external walls. Moving smaller blocks is faster. You behave more carefully with large blocks, you try to prevent chips. In general, keep in mind that building a house from aerated concrete from blocks 400 mm wide is about 1.5 times slower than from blocks of 300 mm.

A lot of time is spent on work that is invisible to the final result: rubbing the masonry with a float, chasing and reinforcing every fourth row.

The vertical seams in the grooves should be foamed, then the excess foam should be cut off.

I carry out the laying on the upper rows on such a table with a support from aerated concrete pallets. I made two such tables. It also takes time to move them along the walls. But they are more convenient than forests. The area of ​​the rooms is small - the forests would have hindered more than helped.

Most of the time was spent on gluing, installation, insulation, reinforcement and filling the lintels. As well as insulation and reinforcement of the armopoyas. As they say, work invisible to anyone. The scope of work has been done, the lintels are filled in, and what has been done is no longer visible. Therefore, you need to take a closer look at the factory jumpers - this will reduce the construction time, and you will overpay a little.

Because most of these works are on the wall, then the phased movement along it is also time. Although I do this by moving the ladder, not the table.

Because I am building from aerated concrete for the first time, it is difficult to plan many works in time. As always, I wish it were faster. But also the internal requirements for the quality of their work do not allow them to accelerate. If quality was not important to me, I would hire a team.

For many, this text may look like an excuse to oneself. No not like this. I'm in no hurry, and the point of the article is to convey to the reader the understanding that everything needs to be planned with a margin of time. Because when there is not enough experience, it is impossible to take into account and plan everything.

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