How to assess the state of a country house with the purchase?

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If you decide to buy a suburban property, it is strongly recommended to read this article. Here we'll show you what to look for and to bargain, and that is not so important when buying a house or villa.

1. Is the game worth the candle?
You "get" ready house to their summer cottage? It is important to immediately decide to prepare it for demolition, or try to improve it? If before you frame or panel house, or the Soviet perestroika period - 99% of the output of one - to bear. In those days, the builders have not yet managed to master frame technology, and probably your house - stuff for temporary accommodation, not more.

2. Look at the foundation!
If you buy a wooden house, it's not so bad: modern jacks and screw piles save your home, even if the problem underneath the foundation. If it is necessary to improve the foundation, calculate energy and money in advance, please understand that it is important you need to: to lay the necessary communications in advance, an annular drainage and sewerage, in the presence of 20-30 thousand, warm expanded clay soil (required waterproofing of the ground), or polystyrene, to make the ventilation air holes with a minimum diameter of 50 mm. Insulate the blind area, as a - I

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3. Look at the walls!
The wooden houses of the problem areas - lower crowns and logs at the corners, especially if the vapor barrier film made in the construction, vapor permeability. This is just my case described here.

4. Look at the roof! In doubt - ask to open the heater!
Do not want the roof rotted or second floor promorz? - Pay attention to the roof. In the middle latitudes Russian insulation thickness of the roof should not be shorter than 15 centimeters! Ideally it should be a non-combustible natural insulation (comparison - here). Only in extreme cases permissible roof insulation liquid foam or polystyrene. In case of fire foam roof is almost not leave the chance of survival. Check that between the roofing material (most of all - steel sheet) and the crate with a heater was a place for free air circulation.