Mikhail Skvortsov Protection exterior communication network remains relevant as far as actual bad weather in our region and filled with soil moisture. And if you've paved the pipe or cable outside the house, then try to neutralize or at least minimize the impact on them of negative external factors. Such factors have, frankly, in excess. First, always pour from the top, but the fact that the top, is inevitably in the soil. Secondly, the bottom is also constantly threatened by "flood" ground water, which, combined with atmospheric moisture present answered by a serious danger to networks installed in the ground. But moisture is not all there is such a thing as frost heaving of the soil. Soil due to this shift, and with such force that squeezes out of the ground even for houses. What to say about some unfortunate pipe? Different parts of the soil may then shift to a different intensity, a result of which the pipe or electric cable elementary bursts. Of course, the best option - where all communications are concentrated within a well-heated homes. However, alongside modern cottage, as a rule, is Bath. Need a guest house, perhaps, the garage will be separated, and the boiler in our time are often put to one side of the house, which increases the security of living and reduce environmental harm. This means that the inevitable strip of sections of pipelines and power grids. We list to start outside engineering services of a modern country home. Let's start with the fact that any home need water for drinking and household needs.
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Absolute integrity
Vitaly Lviv Sealants - a flexible material used instead of grout in the expansion joints to isolate the main field from the surrounding cladding material. Seals and sealants - are flexible materials that are used instead of grout in the expansion joints to isolate the main field from the surrounding cladding material. Unlike other materials used for insulation tiles, gaskets and sealants eventually wear out and require replacement. Generally sealants are stronger than seals, but they are harder to style. In the past, choosing the appropriate color of insulating materials was restricted and they are heavily soiled styling, so it is easy to understand why the pavers tiles avoided the use of sealants and gaskets, and preferred to fill the seams of grout. Today, cement and sand sealants and gaskets have a wide range of colors suitable for any mortar, home appliance, or painted surface. Modern high-quality sealer is easy to fit and clean water, and as it has in the sand, it creates a flexible joint grout virtually identical. Use sealant pursues two objectives: - It protects the tile from appearing on it, and in the seams of spots - it is to some extent, protects the tiles and grout from excessive water absorption. To the surface of unglazed tiles and the joints did not appear stains, you need to cover the liner with liquid transparent sealant. Most sealants are based on silicone, lacquer or acrylic. When choosing a suitable sealant is necessary to consider types of tile and grout, as well as a place where is facing.
Take care of the heat in the summer!
Zoe Dydynskaya Maybe someone will seem strange that on the eve of the summer we talked about this aspect of housing, as thermal insulation. But remember that "to prepare the sleigh (in our case - to insulate the house) is needed in the summer. Then, warm and comfortable you will be all year round. Use of thermal insulation in construction is evident. It allows you to reduce the thickness of walling (walls, roof), to reduce the consumption of basic building materials (brick, concrete, wood), to facilitate construction and reduce their cost, as well as reduce consumption of energy (fuel) in the maintenance period. If the relatively recent past has been known only one way of insulating homes - covering glass wool, but today, a device insulation abound. Varieties of these methods depend primarily on the materials that are used for this purpose. The task of each of the householder - to determine the type of insulation material (TIM), the optimum for each home construction. To do this try to understand that the house needed to insulate, as well as the characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of TIM. With warm? Identify ways in which heat leaves the house, it is extremely important for the rational use of heaters. Experts believe that through walls and windows lost more than half of the heat, still about 20% - through the roof and about 10% of the heat "goes into the ground," that is lost through the basement. Therefore, to reduce heat losses to the minimum possible only through an integrated approach to insulation, which implies establishment of an integrated protective termoobolochki around the house construction.
Waterproofing of the roof
Waterproofing of the roof is essential in building a country house. This issue should be resolved at the stage of construction of the building. Costs for the resettlement of protection is minimal, but you will get rid of the need to frequently repair the roof and attic. On the main types of waterproofing can be learned from this article. Mastic Mastic is suitable for waterproofing flat roofs as an independent roofing material. Scope of the mastic coating - residential and industrial construction. It is formed directly on the roof surface by applying zhidkovyazkih polymer products, which form a continuous elastic membrane. Polymeric Mastic have good adhesion to concrete, metal and asphalt, and they are suitable for waterproofing nodes contiguity and joints. One type of protection is polyurethane mastic, applied to the roof of the dispensing means. After drying and curing coating looks like a solid rubber material. Polyurethane mastic resistant to aggressive environments, ultraviolet rays, oxidation, corrosion and temperature extremes ranging from -40 to +100 ° C. Film Another type of protection of the roof from moisture, is an adhesive film. It is a laminated polypropylene fabric which is resistant to stretching and tearing. For abstraction of condensate and steam in some types of thin film has a special perforation. The film is mounted under the roof covering and provides waterproof construction, and also stimulates the removal of water vapor into the external space, which is especially important in cases falling under the roof of snow and rain water.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Warm home
Unsatisfactory form of facades of houses are sometimes a cause for the demolition of their own. At the same time if it's only the facades, they can be transformed with the help of new coating materials, described as an architectural expressiveness, and durability. Warm House - as a fortress Unsatisfactory appearance of facades of houses are sometimes a cause for the demolition of their own. At the same time if it's only the facades, they can be transformed with the help of new coating materials, described as an architectural expressiveness, and durability. Unfortunately, talking about the durability of finish is now premature. Facades, even new homes on which construction has not yet been completed, have the following breakaway tiles. Number of buildings disfigured so no one counted, but they are relatively often catch the eye, thus emphasizing the problem. It is well known for another serious illness for existing buildings - a weak thermal protection. It leads to an increase in heating costs (by some estimates - 40%). Therefore, many happy owners of their own home still under construction are thinking about teplosberezheniya. After all, winter in Russia is very severe. Choose a system of insulating the walls is not easy, because of heat engineering efficiency, they differ little. Crucial to the reliability and functional efficiency, versatility and ease of practical application. It is necessary to take into account the parameters of a particular building or project: the possibility of additional load on the foundation that is acceptable (including depreciation), the load on the wall, the system conforms to the landscape, and of course its cost.
The destructive power of life-giving water
Vitaly Lviv High humidity in living rooms in recent decades - the subject of attention of health authorities in European countries. Traditionally, priority in construction have always been a problem the thermal protection and soundproofing. High humidity in living rooms in recent decades - the subject of attention of health authorities in European countries. Traditionally, priority in construction have always been a problem the thermal protection and soundproofing. The energy crisis of 70 years in Germany led to the development of systems of insulating windows as one of the areas of energy saving technologies. Consequence of the innovations was the reduction in the functions of natural ventilation and increased humidity indoors. High humidity in the room - the reason for the appearance of putrefaction, breeding colonies of fungi. Dangerous, in fact, not the mold, but millions of spores, which inhabit the air and fall into the respiratory system and circulatory system. Particularly sensitive to these children, the elderly, people with weakened immune systems and are prone to allergic diseases. This, above all, respiratory diseases, including bronchopulmonary this skin disease and musculoskeletal system. High humidity is typical for underground spaces: basements, especially basements. The damaging effects of water on the structure of brick and concrete - a fact well known, because these materials have branched capillary-porous structure. Penetrating into buildings groundwater reduces the carrying capacity of concrete and bricks through leaching of free lime and the processes of freezing and thawing.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Preparing a house for the winter
Choose a system of warming of the walls is not easy, because of heat engineering efficiency, they differ little. Crucial to the reliability and functional efficiency, versatility and ease of practical application. It is necessary to take into account the parameters of a particular building or project: the possibility of additional load on the foundation that is acceptable (including depreciation), the load on the wall, the system conforms to the landscape, and of course its cost. Properly assess all these factors can only be a professional. Applied Systems outer insulation of walls of buildings can be divided into: thermal insulation system with plastering facades; thermal insulation system with a protective-decorative screen, thermal insulation system with facing brick or other fragmented materials, thermal insulation system of low-rise wooden houses. Thermal insulation system with plastering facades include adhesive or mechanical fastening of insulation with anchors, dowels and cages to the existing wall and then covering his plaster layers. Besides the general requirements for a reliable fastening system to the existing wall, in the thermal insulation system required under the terms of the annual balance vlagonakopleniya is the requirement for water vapor permeability nakryvochnyh plaster layers. Thermal insulation system with protective and decorative screen because, as a rule, its lack of water vapor permeability perform air-ventilated gap between the insulation and shield, the so-called ventilated facade.