Building a house: the calculation and the right approach

There is a saying that the first house is built to the enemy, the second - a neighbor, and only the third - currently. To refute this popular wisdom, before you start to build your house, you need to calculate everything, to weigh the "pros" and "cons", and only then begin construction. This will help to avoid errors and, as a result of frustration, when the construction process is delayed, and the house of Dream turns into a "vacuum cleaner", a pulling all the money from the family budget, as well as force the builder and his families.

In this article, we gathered experience FORUMHOUSE and users in the form of building life hacking, answer the following questions:

• Why the need for home design and cost estimate.
• How to calculate the construction site.
• Is it profitable to build a one-storey and frame houses.
• How to avoid mistakes and waste of money.

I want my house: where to start?

This question should ask yourself to anyone who intended to live "on the ground" and have decided to start building a house. Moreover, the concept of "home" at everyone. Someone dreams of a big mansion, someone wants to build a house "not like everyone else", for example, in high-tech style. Still others decide the eternal issue in Russia housing problem. Well, who would want to escape from the city and just relax from the frantic pace of the metropolis in nature, "at the dacha."

As you can see, the issue is one, and goals, as well as construction costs, it is different. Therefore, not forming in my head the image of your home, even in a dream, you can not go to the more mundane things - design and calculation of cost estimates for its construction.

At this stage many be disappointed when it turns out that to build a cottage for the vending project impossible. The reason is simple - it can not afford. Exit - reduce Wishlist and down to earth.

The first thing you need to start the developer, - knowledge. Without them, any idea is doomed to failure. Moreover, in our time, when you have to be a "jack of all trades," otherwise "mercenaries" nakosyachat so that the alteration will spill a lot of money, in-depth knowledge.

It would be naive to believe that "after sitting" on FORUMHOUSE a month and read a dozen or so of the building, you will become an experienced foreman. No, the knowledge to build your own shed on frame technology, likely enough, but to build a house - a responsible and laborious process.

To the knowledge (about the properties of construction materials, technologies, pros and cons of a particular method of erection of the house) add the plan as a crucial component of a reasonable economy.

At this stage, it is necessary to get rid of common misconceptions and often fatal error - thinking about the benefits of the acquisition of finished or unfinished houses. After all, you never know how to actually erect buildings, and what technologies are thus violated.

Dmitry Galayuda (Consultant section "Ventilation» FORUMHOUSE):

In my opinion, it is impossible to buy a house built without you, which is 100% fit your wants and needs. I say this from personal experience, at one time 30 houses have looked alive. It is always a compromise. Or are not satisfied with the exterior or interior, or all together. In addition, it is not certain as such cottage. After I built my house, I will say that never buy a house that was built without my control and, especially, the house, which was built specifically for sale.

A bit of moving away from the main subject, say that the houses that are built specifically for sale - it's a time bomb. In most cases, the purpose of the construction - the maximum profit. This means a total savings of high-quality building materials and construction in violation of all the technology. For example, the frame construction of crude timber, filling of the foundation, laying blocks on a solution in rain, frost, etc. Attracting the most cheap and unskilled labor. The list goes on and on. Although outwardly such houses and can look good, schools have come out after the first heating season and the beginning of spring.

The result: the owners of "cottages" have to have for the next year (if the house was bought in the summer) to engage costly rework "from the foundation to the roof," meaning that it is necessary to build or own, or controlling personally all the stages.

The following questions arise: how to properly build a house, where to start, what to save, and how not to make fatal mistakes at the same time?

Correctly we expect to build a house

Our portal has already repeatedly wrote that any construction should start with the project and the calculation of estimates. Without these truths to erect impossible to start at home, unless, of course, you need a high-quality result. Also recall that the "box" at home - which includes the foundation, walls, roof, roof (temporary or final), as well as windows and doors - that's not a house because it is impossible to live.

And, more often novice developers ask the question, from which to build a house for some technologies, meaning by this wall material. Then consider how to "home" as a system in the complex - "box", "inzhenerki" communication, finishing internal and external decoration, etc.

 The price of wall materials, no matter what is chosen: brick, concrete, frame - not the most expensive part, because price per 1 sq. m wall at the finish work about equal. Thinking that by frame technology, you build a cheap house - a profound error!

"Correct" frame - very expensive. Conclusion: hoping to build a house, it is necessary to bring the value to one common denominator - price per 1 sq. m and its area on the basis of these data, make economic comparison of different variants.

Those. not lazy, take a pen, paper, calculator and rough, "rough" feel, what would cost to build a house of brick, aerated concrete, timber, on frame technology, etc.

Before we give a little life hacking as a table on which you can estimate the cost estimate, we will tell you about some common misconceptions novice developers.

Two-story single-storey house is cheaper

Before we say this, we think. So, take the two projects - one-storey house and a two-storey cottage. type foundation, wall material, trim, roofing - identical. Area of ​​about 150 sq. m. The price quote for 1 square. of the total area. This will give the real data with the technical and economic comparison of variants. Now virtually begin to build these houses. The first thing to do - to build a foundation.

Pretends: the perimeter of the basement floor house, is greater than the lengths of all sides of the foundation under the house with two floors. It automatically pulls the increase in the volume of excavation and the price of "0" stage.

Experienced builders can say that the cost of "odnoetazhke" than the house with two floors, it is possible to fight off the elevated floor. Here and useful comparison of the estimates. For example, in "dvukhetazhke" can be costly from a monolithic concrete floor and replace it with a prefabricated w / w of hollow core slabs. Or block span wooden I-beams. Options to save enough.

In addition, do not forget about insulation and finishing cap, blind area of ​​the device, a bookmark drainage and livnovki, mindful of the fact that the base of the perimeter of a single-storey house more than the two-storey. And all of the above - it's material + work = increase estimates.

Third floor house roof area larger than the area of ​​the roof covering the two-story house, and it is - the additional costs.

Weight nuances. This is only a small part of them, but it is clear that it is necessary to compare the two, three, four or more variants of houses with each other and assemblies, and look for an optimal and cost-balanced solution.

Under the frame house can be cheaper to build a foundation

The foundation must not be cheap, but the best for a particular house (loads of it) and the ground (its load-bearing capacity) on the site. Although the house frame, lighter than stone and, accordingly, does not need a strong foundation, we remember about the comparison method. Stone house, strange as it may seem, can also be relatively easy and not have a big load on the base, if:

• The house is constructed from relatively light wall materials. For example, foamed and aerated density of about 400-500 kg / m³.
• The house has a small area of ​​80-120 square meters. m.
• As used overlapping beams or wooden joists.

This is only general recommendations, showing that all is learned in comparison. In order not to forget, following the rules - all recorded, including stuff that accumulates on a decent amount.

As the basis of these records could be the following table, which every developer will be able to expand and complement, depending on their needs. The main principle: divide all the construction into separate stages, each of which paragraphs and subparagraphs, which depend on the chosen technology and the materials used.

Note: This table is provided as an example and is exploratory in nature on the list of the works necessary for the calculation of the construction.

Note that the term "house turn-key" all different. Someone will be able to live in a "naked" walls, gradually trim them. Other developers flatly refuse to relocate, if not landscaped surroundings, and in the spring of "swam" site has to go to the waders. All this affects the final estimate.

Construction of life hacking portal users

Often, many do not read of the construction costs, insufficient knowledge, and fill his bumps, preventing mistakes on your own building, no one wants. After all, this will lead to an expensive rework and increased budgets. Therefore, in this part of the article we have collected "squeeze" out the real user experience, codenamed "Collection is planned to build their own tips. Personal experience".

irusya8 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

My advice — do not install windows and doors at temperatures below zero. We put the windows 18 pc. autumn frosts, without running the heating system. The guys from the team were frozen, we pity them and feel sorry for yourself... now. Works made with marriage. Everything had zapenivat again, glass in one place, because of the skew is exhausted. The front door came out of the loop. So much for the economy.

Pouring the foundation of the mixer, always think over in advance, which drained the remnants of the mixture. This will save time, money in the nerves. For example, one can pour the foundation for the construction of non-critical - arbor, or pour the track, etc.

Staircase and doorway at her design at the stage of planning at home and not leave it for later, with height ladder climbing steps and calculate, taking into account the thickness of the finishing coating of the first and second floor. If you do not, write in a convenient ladder already built home will be difficult and will have to wrestle with how to do it.

Raising the foundation under the house, think through the porch and the front group. In our climatic conditions the porch and warm "waiting room", separated from the rest of the second door of the house - a vital thing. You can come in from the cold, after the rain, and the naked, without going into the house and not letting the heat out.

irusya8:

We did not do the steps right, and when rushed, we decided to see how it is done correctly. As a result, found out that the porch (if building) can not be strictly tied to the main foundation and the house. They have to walk on their own - separate from each other. So they did. Now, between the house and the porch periodically there is a small gap. And if rigidly tied, it does not know how to brick behaved, would suddenly cracked.

Decoupling structures arranged expansion joint.

Communications, entering them into the house wiring and also thought out in advance! Otherwise, after the erection of foundation wall and will have their chisel hammer to lay pipe or order expensive diamond drilling.

irusya8:

Making windows in the brick house, just think of the lattices, you want them or not. If so, do not be lazy, lay the pieces of rebar in the openings. Then do not have to drill holes for fasteners, and can simply be welded to the mortgage grid. And paint the grille in bright colors, so they look better and fishnet.

Yulyasha (Member FORUMHOUSE):

Plan the so-called "project of construction." This - the access roads to the portion, the amount of free space in a portion will pass or not tractor crane mixer where unload blocks, bricks etc.

Proper organization of construction saves the developer tools. For example, to transport construction materials should be such that the maximum load the machine, and not to drive a half-empty truck back and forth due to multiple boards.

During the construction of a stone house, for example, aerated concrete, spend a little time, and the first course of masonry derive to "0". This will allow the right level the height difference on the foundation and then quickly lead masonry, and not try to "catch" swings from row to row.

To take the device cap only "red" brick and not "white" -silikatny and masonry are conducting the DSP. Also, do not save on quality giroizolyatsii because repair base will cost considerably more expensive "penny" saving.

We appreciate your time and effort.

Sintetik (user FORUMHOUSE):

If you have a house with two floors above, buy a round-tower. This is certainly not a complete replacement of forests with large-scale construction, but it helps when you need to quickly climb to a height, something on the little things to correct, repair the roof, install, etc. Expenditure on her kicking quickly checked on the personal experience.

Also, do not hesitate to draw on the hard work of "mercenaries". It is more profitable than to be killed by lifting upward something heavy to. In addition, often more economical to pay for the shift operation of the tractor, excavator, drilling rig, you dig a foundation pit / bore piles / move the soil by hand or with the help of the laborers who have it will take a week or two.

And at the end of the article we give blitz tips from members of the portal on the theme "So I did the second time."

Nomad (User FORUMHOUSE):

I would not build a summer cottage neuteplonnuyu (such as still winter do not go). Practice (when built bath) showed the opposite, and remake is always more expensive to build than, as it should, from the first time.

SDim (User FORUMHOUSE):

Never make personal time, as it becomes a constant.

May (User FORUMHOUSE):

Do not fall asleep with sand land without putting it under the geotextile. In the spring of sand will go into the ground, and you throw money down the drain.

Ricky (User FORUMHOUSE):

If I'm building a house, it would have immediately made the foundation for a normal oven!

AlekseyTsvetkov (User FORUMHOUSE):

I would not begin construction without having the entire amount at the hands of the whole house. Result -dolgostroy. I will lift up the house for 13 years. The last 7 years "box" stands motionless. 5 years ago, I bought a car, had children, a year ago moved into the apartment, and no money in the house remains quite ...

Summarizing

Deciding to begin construction of the house, the main thing - to avoid self-deception. To think that all spending for the construction of the cottage 3-5 million rubles., And you can build a house for 1.5-2 million rubles. - Utopia. Therefore, before you build a house, you should walk around the neighborhood, to see what the house of any material on what technology, build on what foundation. Talk with neighbors, learn what "pitfalls" await, etc. And then take it to consider and once again consider all the details. Even if you have to spend on the project and estimate a year or more, to pay money for it, as well as the geology of the site, all of these costs during the construction repulse.

This is much better than usual, taken from inexperienced builders - the main thing to get involved, but we'll see, remake / freeze always have time. Such an approach will help to avoid one of the most common mistakes - construction of a stretch for years, which take all the money from the family budget.

All novice developers advise to study topics: building according to the rules, when, how, what and how much in,collection planning to build your own tips, and, how not to build, not to regret it.

On FORUMHOUSE contains articles: how to build a house yourself and save on construction, how much is actually costing the construction of the house, how to cover a large span of wooden beamsand how to choose and the right to lay precast concrete floor.

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