It does not take much time to build a frame house. Due to the simple construction technology, strength and reliability, frame houses are very popular.
The device of the floor in such a house is slightly different from the usual construction options. Its arrangement follows immediately after the foundation stage, and only then the frame of the walls and roof is erected.
What you need to install the floor of a frame house
Any construction begins with the order of the project plan.
For the construction of the frame you will need:
- a hammer;
- chisel;
- electric planer;
- circular saw for wood;
- level;
- plumb;
- drill and drills;
- screwdrivers;
- pencil;
- stairs;
- brushes.
The floor in a frame house must be correct and durable, since it bears the load of not only people walking on it, but also the structure of the house itself, the furniture in it and other important things.
Before laying the floor, you need to find out the groundwater level at the building site. It depends on whether the floor will be made in one or two layers.
Before starting work, carefully study all the stages of the process.
The layout of the products in the foundation
- We place the supporting base directly on the ground. Usually this is a reinforced concrete slab, poured right on the spot.
- The draft floor is a wooden base, the supporting part of which is made from any wooden beams.
- Interfloor ceilings in frame houses are created according to the type of supporting structure. They can be made from slabs or wooden beams.
- The finished base must meet all the requirements of the future type of floor. The crate can be made using a wooden beam, which we lay out on a beam system or a carrier plate.
If you want to arrange a plank floor in a frame house, prepare materials such as:
- burnt red brick;
- shunted boards 40 cm thick;
- gravel;
- sand;
- bars with a section of 100 x 80 mm;
- ruberoid;
- Rabitz;
- nails;
- cement or concrete mortar;
- concrete screeds and slabs.
The preparatory stage for arranging a warm floor with your own hands
- We lay the strapping on the sides of the house, parallel to the floor beams. We put the boards on the end, align them along the outer edge of the beds and fasten them with nails in increments of 20 cm.
- We mark the location of the lag. We measure from the corner along the laid strapping board a step of 40 cm. We lay out the log boards on the beams, put them on the side plane and align them with the markings.
- With the length of the board covering the length of the building, on the other hand, the markings are performed in the same way. We cut the logs and fasten them with nails to the harness and beds, check and fasten them to the beams at the intersection.
- If the size of the building is larger, then we overlap the logs. The joint should be on the floor beam. We cut 30 cm intermediate logs and put together the joints between each other, using the trimmings as spacers. After we fix the logs on the floor beams.
Floor insulation
The optimal material for insulation -. Its disadvantage is the loss of thermal insulation ability when wet. Therefore, we protect the insulation layer with a vapor barrier and windproof film.
If a low-density insulation is chosen, we hem a subfloor treated with bioprotection under the logs.
How to make flooring
Often the floor covering in the rooms is different, so a layer of plywood 16 - 20 mm is placed on the logs, and the finishing takes place after construction is completed.
- We mark the sheets of plywood so that the joints are on the log. We coat the logs with liquid nails (eliminates creaking and additionally strengthens), lay plywood sheets, fasten with nails or self-tapping screws.
- We leave a 2 mm gap between the sheets so that the floor does not lead to high humidity.
- In places where communications pass in plywood, we make cuts with a circular saw, for which we first mark it.
- We align the edges of the plywood along the strapping board, mark it with a coated thread and cut it.
After arranging the floor, further construction can be carried out - erection and roofs. The finishing coating on the floor is laid after the installation of internal partitions.
Warm floor in a frame house
It is necessary to think over all the important details at the stage of planning the floor. That is, if you need the floor in the bathroom, or the entire floor in the house to be heated, you need to make a thermal coating in advance.
It is necessary to study all types of heating and choose the desired one. Underfloor heating can be done throughout the house, and only in certain rooms.
It consists of a system of plastic pipes that are placed throughout the room or house. If your frame house is equipped, take care of managing this system, make a control center located in a place where it will not interfere with anyone.
Savings on ceilings and floors
You can save in the manufacture of interfloor ceilings and floors using:
- used floorboard;
- door panels instead of floorboards.
Not a new floorboard is most often even better than the one that is sold to us in the construction markets. It tends to be drier, and by using it, you reduce the risk of being driven. The price of such material can be several times lower than a new raw board.
You can find it at the dismantling of old buildings and technical structures.
Saving on floors using old interior doors
The second option is to use door panels instead of boards. You can find old interior doors and lay them instead of boards. From above everything is covered with a parquet board. Thus, on a medium-sized house, you can save tens of thousands of rubles.
Using this method, you can also save time, since wooden sheets are faster to cover than boards.
You can find old door leafs during the demolition of old five-story houses or in the production of doors, where defective lots are redeemed for nothing
