Building a house (masonry walls from aerocrete)

To lay down the walls of aerocrete able to even a layman, if he strictly adheres to the rules. They are not complicated. Almost all the nuances of this work are well documented on the Internet resources. There are excellent overview videos. So I will not go into long explanations. I'll tell you only a few nuances. A special responsibility is necessary to approach the laying of the first row. This is - the key to the quality of your walls.

The very first thing you need to do - to beat off the diagonal. We have done this a long tape measure. We diagonal not "gone" one centimeter, so the right-hand wall, protruding slightly over the edge of the foundation. It is not critical.

Next you need to measure the height of the corners to find the high angle. From it and begin to "dance" as in the old days "of the stove." To determine the height needed gidrouroven or laser level. In our case, we used the old man - a laser level. husband to the mark bet on armaturinami that were crammed next to the foundation. For these labels, he pulled a string. The stretched thread shows the top level block level and lateral laying. As my husband explained it's called split.

Do you know what the most important thing at the start of laying. No, not the accuracy of calculations and layout. The most important - to put money on every corner! If you forget to do this, then all the work will come to nothing, because prosperity will be lost in the future house. My husband remembered this old Russian omen at the last moment, when the first unit has already been laid. But tradition is tradition, and he had to remove the block to put a penny in the corner!

And when, finally, all the traditions have been followed - the first side wall in our future home was solemnly laid. Present (it was us with the cat) welcomed the laying of the first block with thunderous applause!

As I wrote, the size of the purchased our unit - 30 * 20 * 60. This is not the most common size. Typically, mass purchased blocks of 30 * 25 * 60 cm. But blocks of this size is very difficult. And because her husband was planning to conduct a laying alone, the weight of the unit played an important role for him. So in this case the "size has a value".

Most of the inhabitants of our southern region of the spread of aerocrete wall thickness of 20 cm. They advised us to do the same. But our Siberian mentality of us whispered in your ear that the house wall must be not less than thirty centimeters. We have listened to the advice of mentality, and posted a wall thickness of 30 cm.

The stability of the walls plays an important role in our unpredictable lives. Which is only natural disasters do not occur in the world. From earthquakes to devastating tsunami. Of all, of course, not be able to protect themselves, but something that should be taken for insurance.

Something that will help your walls to resist during a small earthquake - the reinforcement of the walls. We did a reinforcement armature of 8 mm diameter in two rows. First wall chaser made two parallel grooves. Then carefully swept the dust of them, and shed water. These grooves stacked armature, whereupon Grooves were sealed with cement mortar. Unfortunately, the photos of the process, we did not.

We reinforced walls, in that order. First there was proarmirovan first row. Then we did the reinforcement of each of the fourth row. In this process, it is important to bend the reinforcement on the corners, rather than join her. Joints valves we did with overlap of 20-30 cm.

The complexity of the onset of egg was that lingering autumn rains began. It is very hinders the process of construction of our walls.

Finally in November he graced us with the sun, and her husband started the laying of the third row. It seemed that the weather is good to establish strong and long lasting.

But "man proposes and God disposes." It just so happens we have. Our dreams of a long good weather to the nines smashed December snowfall, which was again followed by continuous winter rains. Had extra canning construction and cover block polyethylene (mostly used by the packaging units) for protection against dampness. Otherwise freezing ranked in the joints or power water during freezing could cause irreparable damage to the masonry. It's still good that we are constantly monitoring the weather forecast, which allowed us to carry out these activities in time.

As such, our construction site spent the whole winter. All this time I garden broom sweeps water from our house perimeter. This is not necessary, but I do not want to water stood in the house. Some come easy - simply drill holes at the lowest points. So water drains itself "on the street." But I did not want to waste perforate new wall, so you had to work a broom. However, all come to an end. It ended and our slushy winter.

His story to share with us our reader Svetlana Putintseva.

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