Basics of building a porch. Personal experience.

Regular readers FORUMHOUSE OK They know that the hallmark of any private home can serve as his front porch.

It can be of stone, wood or made of metal, roofed or closed.

But whatever the material and design you choose, the main requirement for this construction - the reliability and functionality.

And to the porch in every served faithfully for many years, you need to follow some basic rules, which will tell users of our site!

How to build a comfortable porch

This is the question we must ask ourselves at the stage of designing the future of the home.

Its main purpose - to provide free access from the street to the house. Closed warmed porch and the front door is converted into a so-called platform.

Tambour, as a buffer zone, cuts off flow of cold air and prevents the escape of hot air when entering the living room from the outside.

Because of this, reduced heat loss at home, which is especially important in cold climates. Properly designed porch you use with pleasure, while uncomfortable turns into a headache for all households. The service life of the steps is equal to or exceeds the lifetime of the house. Therefore, before proceeding to its construction, it is necessary to understand its functions:

• Provide convenient access to the house, and reliable protection from precipitation input group;
• Harmoniously with the general skyline cottage instead look foreign element;
• Structural elements should not interfere with the free opening and closing of the front door;
• When the construction is necessary to use durable materials;
• The optimum size of the porch of a private house, its location, fencing elements, width and angle of climb steps should provide free skid of bulky items: furniture, refrigerator, boiler equipment or technical premises;
• The design must ensure ease of operation and safety for children or the elderly. This is especially true at high porch - 1 meter or more. In this case it is necessary to consider beforehand fencing system - to mount the railing, etc;
• stairs stairs It should provide a comfortable ascent.

The design of the porch, its size and design is best to think more at the stage of the project at home! And to learn about all the features of construction stairways in a private home can be ofthis article.

Only by taking into account all of the above requirements can be taken for detailed study of the elements of the porch. And you need to start with the foundation.

Features of the construction of the basement under the porch

The construction of the porch should be treated as responsible, as well as to the construction of the house. The foundation of any structure is a solid foundation. But the developers are thinking about building a porch only after filling with the basic foundation, or already built house. So what this means:

Sakyra10 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- When laying the foundation under the house we did not podkryltso foundation. Now that the time has come to deal with the external finish, faced a dilemma - from what and how to build the front group. Dig a trench on the General tab of the foundation depth does not want to, and there is no room for the arrival of heavy machinery, as I have put a fence. I think to put a metal porch - the most simple in technical execution, but whether it is necessary to tie him to the house, and how to choose the foundation under it, I do not know.

Very chastovozvedenie all additions to the house is left "for later". Then the developers are trying to fix this, but allow another: make tough bind foundation to attach to the main "home" foundation. Because docking place two bases has no sufficient margin of safety, and themselves foundations are laid at different depths and carry different loads, the oppositely acting forces tearing the place during seasonal shifting of the ground (when frost heave) binding.

Foundations are moved, their bulges, cracks and begins to design. Therefore, you should remember the following rule:

Any annexe (porch, terrace) - it is a separate structure, which requires the construction of its independent foundation.

Vit1959(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- In this case arranged between two footings expansion joint, which is sealed by any elastic material and closes decorative overlays.

As a result, the foundations appear as a single entity, but unleashed against each other.

VictorUfa (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- Expansion joint can be arranged through PSUL tape (pre-compressed sealing tape of polyurethane), a porch roof truss system is best mounted on a swivel. The very close connection bar junction.

Articulation elements gives the relative mobility of the rafters, and the whole assembly remains at low mixing.

If the expansion joint device is usually straightforward, then a series of questions appears when the foundation for the porch.

Vetalt(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- Thinking about the construction of the basement under the porch. But I do not know which one to choose. I think to consider two options: metal or stone base. Both have their pros and cons:

• The metal base is characterized by simplicity and speed of installation. In the land of drilled holes for piles, is filling the support tube. Then there are bolted or welded metal angle or channel. Undergirding the ground, placed stringers, steps are assembled;

• Stone foundation to do more complicated. Melkozaglublenny arranged strip foundation. Filled plate and is already on this basis, made further steps of casting concrete. This work involves higher costs associated with viscous reinforcing cage, pouring concrete, excavation, etc.

Vit1959:

- I would put on a regular pile foundation, pre-drilled hole on the depth of freezing ground. This is the simplest and cheapest option at the base of the porch of the building.

But a user with the nickname VictorUfa He believes that in the case of selecting the pile foundation under the porch, piles can vyperet lateral forces of frost heaving, as often happens with pillars under the fence.

A way out:

Dimastik25(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- I'll do the porch on the pile foundation technology, which will protect the pile from the extrusion. In the season before last, my neighbor was so filled metal fence posts. Second winter are already on, and one not tilted!

Technology is as follows:

• Anchor truck make borehole depth of 2 meters and a diameter of 350 mm;
• As it is inserted into the reinforcing cage, with the bottom made a slight broadening;
• The hole is filled concrete 0.5 meters from the borehole bottom;
• On reinforcing cage wear asbestos tube diameter of 150-200 mm and is lowered by 1.5 meters to have the cast concrete base;
• The poured concrete asbestos pipe.

The space around the pole rammed clay. Obtained a post with the broadening of the bottom, which will operate as an anchor when frost heave of TISE type. On top of the pillars at the same time is filled with stairs monolithic platform.

Clay lock protects the base of the pile perched.

Despite the simplicity of the pile foundation, it has a big disadvantage, as the need Zabirko device - an element closing an open part of the plinth pile or columnar foundation. Therefore foundation under porch operate as a plate or MZLF.

44alex (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- If the foundation is in the house low, then fill it with the usual plate. The base plate - like foundation UWB. Pre-insulate extruded polystyrene. If the foundation of a great height, the do tape to insulate its perimeter. plinth the inside filled with sand, and on top of the cast slab.

On this basis it is possible to mount any porch or porch - made of wood, metal or put RC column. To save on concrete work, it can be cast not monolithic, and a ribbed plate.

We talked in detail about what foundation UWB .

In the subject FORUMHOUSE discussion of why and how make a porch and the optimal size of the steps towards the door. FORUMHOUSE users can learn the consequences repair of the old porch. And meet good use cases space under the porch.

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