Small-panel formwork: universal system for creating a solid foundation and basement

"The house will build itself." "Construction will be carried out" in a helmet ", so stocked with popcorn." "I talked with acquaintances builders, thought, and decided to build it yourself" - so begins many successful stories in the building FORUMHOUSE. With the help of specialists of PSS, we will talk about one of the most common modern methods and equipment, without which it is impossible to build a solid house "in a helmet" without the use of cranes and other equipment - small-panel formwork.

Rent, buy or "collective farms"?

Getting to the construction of a country house party FORUMHOUSE AlAl I decided to make a monolithic plinth wall at full height (2.5 meters), "without there dovykladyvany brick." AlAl was coming hard choices: make the most of the shuttering plywood, lumber and boards, buy it or rent? What decision will be favorable and correct? We decided to ask experts and compare these options according to various criteria: the speed of work, safety, cost and quality.

Hazad1 (Member FORUMHOUSE):

If so, where then adapt the material, it is better to do himself; if not - rent. But it is better for the ground floor, of course, rent, because then the walls are ideal, but with self-made - as lucky.

Eugene Parkachev (expert company PSS):

Creating a monolithic wall height of 2 meters or more of timber and plywood - not an easy task. Formwork and tears at lower altitudes. If you do decide it is necessary to make the normal calculation of the bearing capacity. The problem is that the tree is non-uniform, has knots and cracks, so you need to have experience of monolithic works and "feel" of concrete.

The experience of many members of the forum suggests that it is better not to take risks, and to use professional solutions. Of course, in the manufacture of formwork with your hands, you can save materials for future use, but in general this economy is small compared to c construction budget and losses, if something goes wrong ...

This approach is shared by the experts: to fill the basement will take optimal formwork rental.

Eugene Parkachev:

Rent small-panel formwork - is a safe and inexpensive option. Typically, for pouring the basement missing 15 days. Stoimt rental shuttering for two weeks is comparable to the cost of buying plywood, lumber, nails to "work with their hands", so to rent even more profitable. The quality of the poverhnostiochen high and does not require additional work.

In general, according to experts, there is no reason to buy small-panel formwork, if you're not a construction company specializing in the private sector.

We have analyzed the proposals on the Internet and found that the average Rental price per m2 of formwork It is from 350 to 400 rubles for two weeks and about 700 rubles per month. For comparison, a square meter of 18mm thick laminated plywood costs about 950 rubles and 650 rubles nelaminirovannoy-. Even without specifying the value of lumber, boards, nails, and other components, it is clear that the cost of rental formwork is really profitable.

In favor of the lease opalubkigovorit and that after the completion of works on the site are no mountains of garbage that must be incinerated or exported.

Small-panel formwork: what is it?

small-panel formwork - a system of boards and components for concrete foundations, walls, columns and other architectural forms, professional tool, sharpened to meet the challenges, which can not handle other types of formwork.

The main advantage of the formwork - small size and weight of the items (up to 50kg). This allows you to keep the weight of the work manually, without crane - it saves construction budget, and the small size of the panels allows you to bypass all the bottlenecks.

This formwork is easy to deliver to places where you do not get the technique, for example, to the back yard of the house, without damaging lawns and flower beds, paths and garden trees. Small-panel formwork can add to the existing buildings and to perform work inside it.

Shields may be combined with each other to set both vertically and horizontally. Combining PDUs in different embodiments, monolithic structures can produce almost any shape and complexity. In this case, to mount small-panel formwork simple - just needs a hammer and hand.

Formwork withstand up to 80 kN / m concrete pressure (this pressure creates a three-meter wall). And if the fill rate is quite high, while at work will apply additional fasteners through the small-panel formwork walls can be filled with a greater height.

Installation Recommendations

How to keep within the shortest possible time and not have to spend extra money by renting a small-panel formwork? Experience participants FORUMHOUSE suggests the following sequence of actions:

• Reinforce the walls, leaving an opening in the external circuit, through which you can move around and carry equipment.
• Only then bring the formwork to the construction site (negotiate and sign an agreement, of course, it is necessary in advance).
• Mount the first inner side wall - in which case the structure can be fixed to the braces and the anchors of the base plate surface.
• To begin the installation you need to install corner pieces and move in the scheme in the middle of the wall.
• Installation of exterior panels can be carried out in parallel with the internal.

If you prepare and act according to plan, a team of three people per day will mount about 100 meters of formwork and for three or four days time to produce the assembly floor area 120-150m2. concrete acceptance will take one day, five to six days (depending on weather) have to let it stand. Three or four days will it take to carry out dismantling and pull it out. One day - to clean the formwork from the concrete. If all materials and consumables in stock, then the work will take no more than 15 days.

formwork rent pitfalls

Member FORUMHOUSE barbos88 flooded basement in 2015, took small-panel formwork for rent. Cap turned out perfectly flat, but the customer suddenly find themselves faced with a problem.

barbos88 (FORUMHOUSE User):

Representatives of the firm that provided the formwork, got to the bottom of dents on the profile.

At the same time, taking the formwork from the supplier's warehouse, barbos88 immediately I noticed that he was shipped not only to the new boards, but quite worn, dented on the profile.

barbos88:

I, of course, the question arose, I'll take those shields back? I was assured that the little things they just turn a blind eye. It is clear that a blind eye to dent suppliers did not - told that the cost will be deducted from the deposit shield.

And here we must pay tribute to the foresight of our member portal: he photographed billboards dents even at acceptance and, thus, was able to prove that some of them had come to him already from the crumpled profile. Wherein barbos88 He recognizes that the dents on four billboards have appeared on his construction site, where workers repulsed the shuttering from the wall with a sledgehammer. He offered to suppliers to pay for repairs, "but they do not repair, they have no shop."

Conclusion that done Validating after our history: the risk of damage to the formwork during the concrete work is always there. Therefore, when choosing a provider, make sure that they have their own production.

Companies that have their own production, as a rule, restore the bent panels (of course, if they are not twisted into a ram's horn, and have minor damage).

And, of course, to easily and safely separated from the concrete formwork and efficiently clean it before putting provider, the installation is necessary to use a special lubricant (which in any case should not be "Working out" of oil).

Eugene Parkachev:

It is better to work with large, trusted companies or manufacturers. Getting their product, you get all the advice and their experience. Usually, the specialists with a deep understanding of the formwork, the ability to quickly produce and deliver additional or replace the equipment. They have the power to repair. In addition, the manufacturer is usually cheaper ...

adhere schemes

Collect small-panel formwork can even people with zero experience, and cases where "formwork is not going to," in fact always associated with the fact that the scheme developed by engineers simply ignored.

Our expert says: If you decide to self-build house, with small-panel formwork you can handle.

Eugene Parkachev:

When a customer takes the formwork rental, we give each object a phased assembly diagrams. If you work on the scheme, the error can not be. But very often the drawings are not even open, and then, when the formwork is not going to begin to redo everything. The owner, who decided to build a house for himself, sort out any in the scheme, and if an experienced contractor works, then sort out all the more. No special brigades not necessary.

Thus, the collective intelligence FORUMHOUSE inclined to think that renting a small-panel formwork for the ground floor - this is the best choice. The rental price of formwork below the cost of work on the version of "do it yourself". It's fast, reliable and safe. A result obtained complies with all quality requirements.

On FORUMHOUSE collected useful links, enclosure systems and ideas for different types of formwork. Watch our video about the construction of the house on permanent formwork technology, Read our article on how to the right to build a foundation with his own hands.

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