Frame extension to the country cottage

Country Cottage - a place for leisure on weekends, holidays, or a room for an extended stay. However, there comes a time when it is necessary to extend the area of ​​the house by building an extension frame.

Materials and tools for construction work

In the course of work on the construction of an extension to the house frame uses a number of tools and building materials. Of the tools necessary to shovel, sledgehammer, an ax, a hammer, a Bulgarian, a drill, screwdriver, electric saw. From the materials to be used:

- timber: wooden boards, slats, boards;
- optional consumable material: dry tow, wooden wedges, screws, nails, metal corners;
- a consumable building material: gypsum mortar, concrete mix, crushed stone or gravel, pieces of broken brick, bitumen.

The procedure for construction works

Construction of frame extensions to the country house is carried out in the following sequence:

- create a plan for the future buildings - it specifies its size, purpose and form the estimate (in fact determined by the price of the carcass building);

- laying the foundation;
- installation of the frame and walls;
- production of the roof;
- interior finishing.

Laying the foundation

To make the carcass structure optionally massive strip foundation. It is enough to make the pier foundation. It is made in the following sequence:

- on the perimeter of the structure of the future pulled out the square hole 50 x 50 cm;
- about one third of the pits filled with sand - sand is compacted;
- on top of the well casing is installed;
- holes are filled with concrete mix to the top level of the formwork;
- after the concrete settles on its upper plane is attached roofing material.

Setting the frame and walls

To manufacture the frame and wall beams is used and OSB-panels. Works are carried out in the following sequence:

- parallel bars of the waist, in increments of half a meter, made notch uprights;
- set in recesses and fixed rack;
- going to the upper rail;
- frame extension mates with the main house;
- stands adjacent to the main facilities, fixed with anchor bolts;
- frame is sheathed with OSB-panels.

Making the roof

For optimal extension to single-slope roof type. The roof is made in the following sequence:

- Sets the rafters. One of their end is fixed to the frame, and the second under the slope of the roof of the main building.
- is laid on rafters waterproofing and warming layer.
- Over trusses laid roofing material: roofing material, metal, stainless metal sheets or slate.

trim

Interior trim extension - the final stage of construction. It includes a floor construction (e.g., of the boards or concrete, which is laid on top of linoleum) communications gasket, packing on the inner side walls of insulating material and upholstery plasterboard.