It is not difficult to build a wooden house. We will be able to help you with our detailed instructions with photos and diagrams

February 22, 2018 handmadebase

Build a house from wooden materials with your own handsIt is quite easy to build a wooden house with your own hands. Timber can be chosen as the main material. Buildings made of this material are strong, durable, its shrinkage is standard, the material itself is quite smooth and even. It will be most convenient for you to work with rounded logs. However, you cannot do without qualified training here. Profiled timber will allow you to avoid spending money on finishing, but this material itself is quite expensive and we do not recommend working with it yourself. If you are planning only temporary residence in your future house (for example, a summer cottage), then there is no point in additionally insulating it. But in the case of permanent residence, it will be necessary to insulate it from the outside. So, let's get started. The first step: preparatory work and construction of the foundation. Before you start building the foundation, you must decide on the geological features of the area on which you will erect your building (groundwater level, soil specifics, features of the foundations of previously built houses). For example: If the soil on the selected site is light, then you should pour the foundation 45-50 centimeters deep, and raise it 40 cm above ground level. If the site is clay, then the foundation needs to be installed deep and made strong, otherwise it will freeze.Foundation.We begin its construction by laying trenches, removing the top layer of soil. To compact it, you can pour water on the emerging sand. After that, we pour crushed stone into the dug trenches and put several pieces of reinforcement, tied in the corners. The use of reinforcement will ensure the high strength of your future home. The use of ready-mixed concrete is unlikely to suit you, since it is quite expensive, and a truck with concrete will not be able to drive up to every site. Therefore, when starting to build a wooden house with your own hands, you should stock up on a concrete mixer. If this is not possible, then you will have to mix it manually, but this is very difficult. The foundation needs to stand for at least one or two weeks. A faster option for building a foundation would be a pile foundation, which in financial terms will not be inferior to concrete, but in terms of time it can be installed much faster - a day or two. Step two: a few points before assembling a timber house Preparing wooden nails To make your timber house high-quality, you need to assemble it using the same dowels. It is quite easy to make them. You need solid board scraps. They need to be cut with a saw on one side, then sawed to a size of 1.2 centimeters. So, you will get even wooden planks. After that, we process them with a wood saw to get sticks with a square cross-section. And after all this, you need to process one edge with an ordinary axe. It will be much easier to buy wooden nails, the diameter of which is 2.4-2.5 centimeters.Choosing insulation Construction of woodenthe house will require its insulation. Today, insulation in rolls is often used. But you can save a lot if you decide to use moss, which has many advantages (air purifier, environmentally friendly, economically advantageous). We will make window and door framesMaking wooden jambs with your own hands will benot easy, so we offer you the easiest way to make them. To do this, take the smoothest beam and a workbench. Use a circular saw to make cuts along the beam, after which the excess material is removed with a chisel. The opening for the window should include several vertical jambs. And the horizontal component will be replaced by a massive window block. Regarding the opening for the doors, here we need to make grooves in the empty beam, as well as on the jambs vertically. We also make cuts with a circular saw, drill recesses for wooden nails (d = 2.5 cm). Then we make a rectangle with a saber saw, sawing the fibers only across. We leave the upper part of the horizontal beam aside, and nail a pad to the lower side, imitating a “quarter”.Step three:Assembling a house from a bar For this we need: Laying the crowns Laying the first crown will be the most difficult. The evenness of the foundation and its horizontality are important to us. For this reason, we advise laying the initial crown according to the "half-tree" principle. This is easy to do by making cuts along and across with a circular saw. Where this is not enough, you can use a hacksaw. Remove the excess with a chisel. That's it: the first one is complete. Using a small chainsaw will make this process much easier. We install the first crown on spacers with gaps. The spacers are necessary to provide vents, which are best made in the wall. As a result, the underground space is well ventilated. Remember that it is the initial crown and the spacers-boards that need to be lubricated with an antiseptic. We use a 5x20 cm board as a substrate. Good waterproofing will be provided by roofing felt folded in two layers. All the following crowns will be made in the same way. At the corners, we connect the timber not by the usual contact of logs, but by a root tenon. Then we cut these 2 cuts with a saw. Before this, you need to decide on a rational cutting depth. Do not forget to also make a gap of 0.4 - 0.5 cm for thermal insulation. As a result, we connect 2 beams, and fill the remaining gaps with moss. The crown, in which the opening will begin, must be provided with tenons for jambs, which will greatly simplify our work when cutting - there will be no need to gouge with a chisel again. Having laid two crowns, mark everything vertically for joining dowels. Using a simple pencil and a triangle, draw markings on the surface of the beams at the bottom and top. Then turn the upper one over, and transfer the markings from the vertical to the center of the beam. Having drilled holes of the required depth, we hammer in wooden nails. To speed up the construction, try using an electric drill, drilling from the top down one and a half rows at a time. Laying sphagnum and tow Having driven in the nails, you need to start laying sphagnum and tow fibers. We spread the fibers over the entire beam, and the moss across it. Having done all the above recommendations, you will get a rigid frame for the house. Leveling the beams If the beam is almost even, you can use a plane. If the beam is sufficiently curved, try to saw it where the bend is strongest.We install openings and jambs If yourThe wooden house has already reached the level where it is necessary to install window units, first we will draw the opening. We make the opening the same width as the window opening. We mount the crown together with the window opening (the beams themselves already have tenons). In the remaining crowns, the beams do not have tenons, but the required internal size is maintained. As soon as the final crown of the opening is laid, we need to remove the upper beams of the openings. Then we will make holes for the tenons with a saw and mount the jambs. After that, we cut off the tenons in the initial crown of our opening in order to be able to control the assembly process. To increase strength, when the upper crown is already laid, it is worth organizing the installation of jambs of all openings. Each opening of the lower beam is equipped with a tenon, and the upper one is a hole in the right place. We need to make cuts along the guide, having determined the required depth, with a circular saw. We draw 2 lines along the ends and plumb line, determining the size of the tenon, and remove everything else with a chisel. For the time being, we install spacers between the jambs.So, the results for building a houseyou need to have a small baggage of materials and a standard tool. The basis of our house is a box made of wooden beams, installed on the foundation. Assembly required a minimum of costs, a little patience and effort.

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