Half-timbered houses: what it is and how they are built?

Half-timbered houses - this is not the vogue word and modern construction technology, the first houses of this type began to built in Germany in the 15th century and are durable: in Western Europe there are half-timbered houses, which more than a hundred years.

What is fachwerk?

Half-timbered houses (From the German "building sections") - a particular style of construction, involving the erection of the framework of beams and rafters, forming a geometric shape on the front of the house. The basis of style - a combination of contrasting colors on the facade and lots of windows.

For construction Fachwerk-house requires knowledge of the properties of rigid frames, beams and struts that hold the entire load of the house.

How to build half-timbered houses?

1) To prevent rotting beams based home, in half-timbered houses provide waterproofing layer with optional use of the binder ring section of 50 × 200 mm.

2) The main building material in the construction of half-timbered houses are the boards of solid or laminated veneer formats made of coniferous trees.

3) frame Warming It is performed with natural (mineral wool, Basalt wool) or artificial (polystyrene, Styrofoam) Materials.

4) Foundation. Since the half-timbered houses are light and tough for their construction used MZFL (melkozaglublenny foundation tape). The base half-timbered houses insulated and waterproofing sheets of polystyrene foam. The foundation and the lower part of the frame is connected by means of anchor bolts.

5) frame. Today, for the construction of houses in the style of Half-timbered houses used glued or polished bar. Wall elements, roof and (if present) is attached terraces with each other using a wooden crosspieces-ties.

Ways of wood in half-timbered house purely German and called "Mann", "polumann", "vildermann", "St. Andrew's cross."

6) Load-bearing walls. The Germans made a half-timbered house style so that it does not matter what kind of material will fill mezhbalochnoe space, since it will not suffer the load carrier.
The walls in this house are a function of zoning space, not more.