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Frame houses with their own hands

You can build a house with a small financial pillow, a bit of free time and a huge desire to live in your home. Building your own home is sometimes the only way to get your own independent home. So.

Frame houses

Frame houses with their own hands

In our case, the decision to build a frame house with his own hands came after the calculation of the cost of construction in the traditional way. Benefit from building a brick house on weekends and after work seemed unrealistic and hopeless task. For one simple reason, pulling heavy bricks and concrete after a day of work on efficiency is questionable. Another thing is to eject a couple of boards with a circular saw and score a pair of nails. Yes, and the cost of foundations for a frame house looked an order more attractive than for a brick. After drawing up the preliminary estimate it became clear at once that if you build a brick house of strength enough to last a maximum of 40 m2 that for a family with 4 people is not enough. Calculations also showed that if you build the lightest house you can save about 20 thousand dollars. Workers were supposed to hire only in extreme cases, when the work should be completed quickly. At other times, build your own hands.

Then - a frame house turnkey will cost us 35 thousand dollars
At that time energy efficiency was not particularly thought of, but once again it turned out that the decision to build a wooden frame building was the only true one.

Based on these considerations, I began to look for a plot near Kiev. The good prices in 2006 were adequate. And now, in August, there was a place from which we could not refuse. Having collected all the resources in the boxes, we bought a plot of 6 hectares in a country cooperative, 6 km from Kiev.

Projekty domów szkieletowych-> TUTAJ

Будуємо будинок 121 м2 своїми рукамиAfter clearing the perennial shrubs, they began planning their home. The concept of a small mansard house with three bedrooms, a kitchen and a living room was chosen as the basis. By size it should be a house that has everything you need but no frills. Maximum span when using the standard beam size is 4.2 m. The standard intersections of boards 50 * 150 mm for frame and rafters, 100 * 200 for beams of overlap. Foundations of concrete pillar with a monolithic base. Ground floor of wooden beams with technical underground.

So the project of the first frame house "Pasha" was born

This was the first pilot building of wooden frame in our practice.

After studying several text-books on frame building and negotiations with all the acquaintances, I spent a few months to draw a 3D frame model, to work out the nodes and all the joints of the boards in the virtual model.

Проектування дерев'яного каркасу

Frame of the house 3D

Looking ahead, I can say that such an approach greatly simplified the construction process and saved construction materials. After all, we have done nothing without repairs and fixes of defects.

First, a building passport

Отримання будвівельного паспорту

The next stage was the preparation of project documentation for obtaining a building passport and a building permit. The project work was already ready and a month later, in October 2006, an official permit for the construction of a building was received.

To save money, it was decided to purchase lumber from freshly forested wood and store them for natural drying. What was done. The tops of the beams were painted to protect against deformation. The launch of the framework assembly was scheduled for June 2007. 6 months is a sufficient period for pre-drying.

сушка лісу перед будівництвом

Drying the forest before installation

Ahead was winter in order to meet forces, finish all the design and preparatory work. And March 8, 2007, the construction began officially.

First of all, we brought the pre-prepared toilet for the assembly and solemnly installed it in the corner of the plot.

С чого почати будівництво

How was the construction of a frame house with your own hands, see below

Step-by-step construction of a frame house

If you want to build a house at the lowest cost and want to know how to do it right, please contact us. We will help you with the design of your frame house. And also we will help to build it in Kiev or Kiev region.

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