Attractive half-timbered houses. Half-timbered houses: the nuances of building a building with your own hands How to make a half-timbered house

half-timbered houses are a variety. A building built using this technology is easily recognizable by its characteristic wall paneling. Most of all, such construction is common in Europe. In our country, this technology is not yet very popular.

However, half-timbered construction is gaining more and more supporters, which is not surprising. A well-thought-out design, the use of natural environmentally friendly material are far from all the reasons why the number of half-timbered houses is increasing every year.

Features of half-timbered houses

Fachwerk (German Fachwerk - frame structure, half-timbered construction) - type building structure, in which the supporting base is a spatial section of inclined (at different angles) beams.
These beams are visible from outer side houses and attach to the building characteristic appearance; the space between the beams is filled with adobe material, brick, sometimes also with wood. Fachwerk appeared in the 15th century in Germany and became very popular in Europe, especially in the northern part (from Britain to Poland). In the 20th century, this style is experiencing a new heyday due to the medieval flavor and the effect of the naturalness of building materials.

Fachwerk technology refers to low-rise construction, most often such houses have 1-2 floors and less often 3-4. It can combine several materials: wood, stone, glass. The basis of the building is a frame made of glued laminated timber. In this case, the beam is connected under different angles which gives the frame additional rigidity.

Video: Construction of a frame half-timbered house

Gaps are filled with a variety of materials. At first, the filling was done with adobe, but now they use brick, glass, OSB, etc.

The walls in half-timbered houses are not load-bearing, the load is taken by the frame, which is not hidden under the cladding, but rather stands out and is the main architectural element.

The building built using half-timbered technology is warm due to the use of insulation. An additional bonus is the possibility of unlimited redevelopment. Since the walls are load-bearing, they can be moved or removed without the risk of collapse.

The installation of such a house is quite complicated, but if you have experience working with wood, it is quite possible to cope on your own. Of course, professionals will cope with such a task faster and you can be sure of the quality and reliability of the design.

Construction of a half-timbered building

Half-timbered construction begins with a project. Therefore, it is better to entrust the construction of houses using this technology to specialists. Since the frame uses connections characteristic only for this type of construction, then do independent calculations it will be hard.

In order to correctly arrange such connections as: man, half-man, angular man, wilderman or St. Andrew's cross, you need to know this style well and have knowledge of spatial geometry.

Foundation and frame assembly

When the project is already in hand, you can start pouring the foundation and preparing the material for the frame. It is better to perform these two actions at the same time - while the foundation is being poured at the site, frame parts are being made at the factory.

The house built using half-timbered technology is not heavy, so the foundation can be used shallow. After the base is ready, waterproofing is laid on it and strapping is done.

For strapping, a wooden beam is used, which is attached anchor bolts. Then the remaining elements are connected in strict accordance with the project.

wall material

After installing the frame, you can begin to fill the gaps, that is, mount the walls. For these purposes, any material that you like is suitable: brick, foam concrete or gas silicate blocks, stone, cement - particle boards, OSB, gypsum fiber, lining () and others.

The main thing is that they fit the following requirements:

moisture resistance;
good heat saving performance;
strength;
light weight;
environmental friendliness.

When using materials with a large weight, the foundation must be appropriate. When making walls, it should be borne in mind that the frame of half-timbered buildings should be open from the outside.

From the facade, you can finish with decorative plastic plates with imitation of bricks, but most often it is used.

Roof

Of all the types of roofs for half-timbered buildings, gable roofs are most often used. A distinctive feature of such a roof is the absence of an attic or attic, and large overhangs. Wide overhangs protect the walls from rain, and the room from excess sunlight.

The material for the roof can be: ondulin, metal tiles and other lightweight materials. Ceramic tiles half-timbered houses are not suitable, due to their large weight.

Advantages of half-timbered buildings

A half-timbered house has a large number of advantages:

a massive foundation is not required - the structure is light, so it is enough to make a shallow tape;
the building does not big shrinkage- therefore there is no risk of distortion;
half-timbered technology allows you to hide any communications in the niches of the walls or floor;
aesthetics is the main advantage, the house looks like it came out of a picture of some kind of fairy tale.

It is for these reasons that today more and more people are paying attention to half-timbered construction.

disadvantages

Of course, do not forget about the disadvantages:

High price of the project and installation of the structure;
The frame requires constant protection from weathering, mold and fire;
In regions with a cold climate, additional thermal insulation will have to be done, which will increase the cost.

The technology for building half-timbered houses is considered the most difficult, so it is very difficult to build such a house on your own. Therefore, for the construction of half-timbered houses, it is better to invite specialists.

Watch the video: ASSEMBLING THE FAHWERK FRAME

Topics with the construction of houses using half-timbered technology traditionally enjoy increased attention among FORUMHOUSE users. Developers are primarily attracted by the spectacular, "antique", appearance such a structure.

But in Russia you rarely see a genuine half-timbered house. There are reasons for this, the main of which is that not everyone can build a house using half-timbered technology. Affects large volume manual labor and the complexity of all technological stages. There is an acute shortage of practical information, because most of the tutorials, instructions and examples are on foreign languages and collected on foreign sites.

Therefore, most developers are forced to imitate fachwerk, making the layout “under fachwerk” from boards, along the facade from DSP boards or OSB. The more interesting is the topic of the user of our portal with the nickname asx_75, building "in one helmet" a small, but "honest" half-timbered house.

In this article:

Features of fachwerk technology.
Construction of a house using fachwerk technology.
Tools and materials.

Features of half-timbered technology

Fachwerk (German Fachwerk) is a frame erected from wooden beams. A feature of the technology is that the wooden, post-and-beam frame of the house is not sewn up with anything from the outside and remains in sight. The space between the uprights, jibs and beams is filled with bricks, less often with stone or, alternatively, with adobe - straw, reeds or reeds mixed with clay, which is then plastered.

This gives the house architectural expressiveness, recognition and at the same time imposes a significant limitation on the use of this technology in our harsh climate, even near Moscow, not to mention Siberia or the North.

The fact is that a frame made of a beam of large section (200x200 or 200x250 mm) is a significant cold bridge. In addition, gaps may appear between the filler and the wooden structural elements (the “living” material). The wall will begin to blow with the wind. An open frame (wood) is subjected to increased wear due to the negative effects of atmospheric phenomena (sunlight, snow, rain, frequent transitions through "0"). This leads to the need for regular repairs and renovation of the facade.

In Europe, the climate is milder than in Russia, and half-timbered houses, with proper care, last for centuries.

The half-timbered frame itself is assembled using the tenon-groove technology on wooden dowels and using a variety of joints:

cut,
half-tree connections,
half pan, etc.

This requires good carpentry skills and a "stuffed" hand.

But all these disadvantages fade into the background when you see a real half-timbered house. Moreover, “honest”, because fachwerk imitation on a building, even skillfully executed, remains an imitation.

A real fachwerk will not leave anyone indifferent.

The main mistake of developers trying to imitate half-timbered houses- the choice of narrow boards for their layout on the facade. As a result, the monumentality of the structure is lost, because frame in half-timbered houses bears the main load, respectively, it requires powerful beams, jibs and racks. Boards with a section of 150/100x25 mm (often used to imitate half-timbered houses) look like some kind of strange finish, like ordinary decorative “blotches” on the facade.

Second mistake- the pursuit of the ideal geometry of the layout and bringing the surface of the boards "to shine". At that time, if you look at a real fachwerk, you can see that any timber has irregularities, natural bends, defects, knots, cracks, etc. Those. the tree is "living", and its natural beauty not "killed" by excessive machining.

All this works for authenticity, and most importantly - layout during simulation should be carried out not as “it seems more beautiful” or “how you like it”, but strictly in accordance with the canons of fachwerk- where each frame element is not just like that, but is in its place.

If you do an imitation of a half-timbered house, then first you need to look at more than a dozen photographs of old European half-timbered houses. Capture the essence of frame elements, understand how they work in a single system, are linked to each other, and then try to repeat them on the facade.

Beams, braces, racks and other vertical and horizontal frame elements in half-timbered houses perform a purely practical function - they carry and redistribute the loads of the building.

The real beauty of a half-timbered building lies in the functionality of the frame, where all the elements are necessary, and there is no place for unnecessary details and pretentious embellishments.

How to build a real half-timbered house in Russia

The simplicity of fachwerk (forms), not to be confused with technology, can play a cruel joke on a person who decides to repeat it. It seems that you can look at the pictures, buy a lumber, grab a chain saw and get to work. Such an approach will lead to disastrous results.

Fachwerk begins with the acquisition of in-depth knowledge of this type of construction and drafting a project.

You will have to take the time to learn the key elements of a half-timbered house and how they are made. Case in point- Job asx_75.

asx_75 FORUMHOUSE user

I had the opportunity to visit Germany. I saw "live" the real half-timbered house that I liked so much. I studied it, took photos of buildings, read recommendations, visited thematic sites. When he returned to Russia, he decided to reproduce the "corner of Europe" on garden plot, because there was a need to build a bath. I'll tell you right now - I'm not professional builder. Much in my work was done on a whim, something not according to the canons of the half-timbered house, somewhere I thought it out myself. Worked alone and with minimum set tools.

Looking ahead, we will show a photo of what the participant of our portal has already obtained (the house is now in the process of building a roof).

Now we return to 2016 and proceed to the description of the process of erecting a half-timbered house.

To build a frame, and then fill it with foam blocks (this is a departure from the half-timbered classics, and why asx_75 I chose him, we will describe a little later), I had to try.

The backstory of this project is interesting. According to the user, at first the idea arose to build a bathhouse on the site. To do this, he chose a half-timbered frame, because. he considered that he would not be able to build even walls of brick or blocks. The initial idea was as follows - a frame is placed, and the space is sewn up with OSB boards, followed by the installation of insulation and vapor and waterproofing.

But in the process of erecting the frame, everyone liked it so much that on family council decided to build a "gingerbread" house measuring 5x4 m, and to convert an old brick house standing on the site into a bathhouse.

Further, the idea of sewing up the space between the OSB crossbars has disappeared. If you do fachwerk, then real! In Europe half-timbered (space) is often filled with bricks, but this requires a certain skill and knowledge of certain secrets. Because the brick is laid for a reason, but after special preparation, either it or the timber. Without going into details, let's say that curly grooves are made for this.

The foam block is quite easy to process, and asx_75 I stopped at it, especially since internal partitions will be laid out from this material.

The foam block, so that it fits in the frame, was used not as a wall, but as a partition.

The choice of tools and materials for building a half-timbered house

Having drawn up a construction plan, the user began to implement the plan. First you need to decide on the material, tool and foundation. For the construction of a half-timbered house, you need to have a lot of specialized complex construction carpentry tools, with the help of which figured grooves, spikes, etc. are cut into the timber. But asx_75 cost a lot less.

asx_75

When choosing a different tool for building a half-timbered house, I would like to get a “cunning” imported saw and slowly, carefully cut grooves with it. But sawing a tree along the fibers, and even more so a timber, is another task. Thinking I went for an electric chain saw. After turning it on in the store, I decided that this was not my tool in terms of work safety, so I bought a reciprocating saw. I also needed a powerful puncher, which I used in drilling mode. Twist drills, hammer, chisel and mallet.

Although reciprocating saws are traditionally considered a tool of destruction - sawing wooden partitions, frame elements, pipes, branches, etc., in skillful hands this tool will become an indispensable assistant.

asx_75

Having tried to work with a “saber”, I can say that she has proven herself perfectly. A file with wide teeth perfectly cuts wood along the fibers, adjusts planes, cuts grooves. Moreover, my tool is unprofessional, without a vibration damper, but it greatly simplified the assembly of the frame.

A bar with a section of 15x15 cm went to the frame. The reason is the weight and size characteristics of the material. We have already said above that the beauty of a half-timbered house largely depends on the massiveness of its frame. A beam of large section gives the structure monumentality and solidity.

Such a frame no longer looks like a cheap props.

The user reasoned as follows: a beam with a section of 10x10 cm looks frivolous, with a beam of 20x20 cm it is inconvenient to work alone, turn it over, not to mention lifting the beam to a height without using a crane or an electric hoist. 15th beam - just right. It can be lifted alone, but it has enough massiveness for a half-timbered frame.

There is not a single nail connection in the half-timbered house from asx_75. All parts of the frame were fastened to ordinary purchased pins with a diameter of 2 cm.

Moreover, dowels are not just a connecting element, but play a large decorative role, giving the finished frame a genuine authenticity.

asx_75

When hammering the pins, I first hammered them flush, but then, studying my photo archives, I noticed that half-timber builders often do not flush the pins flush with the surface of the beam, but leave a small “tail” about 3 cm long on the outside. I really liked this element. Moreover, then you can hang a planter with a flower on it.

The pins were not left round, but slightly planed on all sides, giving them the appearance of a hexagon. This makes the connection stronger. Holes for dowels in two elements, in the classical construction of a half-timbered (stand-beam) are not drilled symmetrically, but with a slight offset relative to each other. Those. first we drill the parts (separately from each other), and then we connect them and drive in the dowel. This also increases the strength of the connection, as when the dowel is clogged, due to asymmetrical holes, a hard jamming of the assembly occurs.

Note that the user refused this because of the significant complication of the work, especially since the “thorn-groove” + clogged dowel turned out to be very durable.

The holes for the dowels were drilled as follows: a twist drill for wood (2 cm in diameter), through a chuck, was driven into the beam by a puncher operating in the “drill” mode. Important point: the user made the first holes "by eye", as a result, the dowels went crooked. The next holes were already drilled at the corner level, which ensured the strict horizontality of the holes for the dowels.

Having dealt a little with the theoretical part, we turn to practice. The construction of a half-timbered house began with pouring the foundation. As a basis asx_75 chose pile foundation. To do this, a hole with a diameter of 300 mm was drilled in the ground, to a depth of about 1 m; Next, the concrete was poured.

The level of the pile heads was brought to the horizon using a hydraulic level.

Tip: Deciding to repeat this species modern "folk" foundation, you should not save on roofing material and take a thicker one, because. thin keeps its shape worse, and the pile can turn out to be barrel-shaped.

This step was not without errors. The distance between the piles turned out to be different, because. the first piles were placed after 0.8 m. Then the user read that the distance could be increased to 2 m, but deciding to play it safe, reduced it and chose an intermediate value.

The error led to the asymmetry of the racks of the frame, because. attachment points fall on the pile installation sites. But this added a "zest" to the whole structure, because. often half-timbered houses do not have perfect symmetry, which makes them more "alive".

After the foundation was erected, a strapping made of timber with a section of 15x15 cm was placed on it. Such types of joints were used as half-wood and half-pan.

You can already learn more about the features of the construction of a classic half-timbered house in the topic asx_75. Our article tells. We also recommend articles, and. And the video shows the nuances of building a frame with a half-timbered facade.

Fachwerk - a technology that originated in Germany in the 15th century, has spread not only in its homeland, but throughout Europe. Today, half-timbered houses are built not only by the Germans, but also in Russia. They are quite popular and have received many positive reviews. How to build this magnificent house yourself?

The space between the beams and crossbars, which are usually left visible from the outside, is filled various materials, That's what it is frame houses, it doesn’t matter whether it is or a board, they use it in half-timbered houses.

In ancient times in Germany, the Germans used used clay mixed with. There is even a house built in the 13th century, which was built by a German builder in 1347.

Beams from a bar for such a time did not rot, and the wood became strong, like a stone. This house will stand for more than one century. Europeans have long realized the reliability of these houses, gradually they begin to appear in Russia. And all this was done by hand, without the use of power tools.

It is amazing that a half-timbered house can stand for more than 500 years, this proves the reliability of this type of construction.

Today, technological solutions can be very diverse; in half-timbered construction, panoramic double-glazed windows, brick, wood, a natural stone and etc.

Feature of German frame houses in Germany

A characteristic feature of the half-timbered house is the protrusion of each upper floor above the previous one. This historical feature is by no means connected with the desire to increase the area of the upper floor. This was done in order to protect the facade of the house, which is also the supporting frame of the entire building, from precipitation and excess moisture. Thanks to such indents, water flowing down the walls of the upper floors flows directly to the ground, and the facade of the lower floor remains dry.

Half-timbered houses

Though wide use half-timbered houses was associated to some extent with the desire to save wood, this technology has shown itself well and has whole line benefits.

This is a fairly inexpensive and environmentally friendly type of construction that you can afford to build yourself. Half-timbered houses are unusual and beautiful.

At modern construction glued laminated softwood is more often used, which provides buildings with strength and durability, but you can also use ordinary timber, the main thing is to choose a dry timber of good quality.

Modern half-timbered houses

Thanks to the use of modern, a modern half-timbered house will not only be aesthetically attractive, but also warm and cozy.

When choosing a material to fill the space between the beams, you can show your imagination and use, along with traditional building materials, glass, carved wood, clay mixtures, etc. It will be beneficial to play and protect from moisture the coloring of beams or filler with modern paints and varnishes.

Having all these advantages, half-timbered houses are being built today, many are ready to build such structures with their own hands. In addition, quite light in nature, half-timbered houses do not require construction. Perfect for them, which will allow you to put such a house even on a slope and on the purchase of land.

Video about modern glass frame half-timbered houses

In our country, half-timbered houses are a relatively new trend, which is gaining more and more popularity every day. Such a structure has already gained its overwhelming popularity, and this is quite obvious. For its construction, only pure building materials are used, and the structure is convenient to use.

Why are half-timbered buildings so special?

Building a half-timbered house

Half-timbered houses began to be built several centuries ago, starting from the distant 12th century.

Such structures are classified as low-rise buildings and may include a maximum of four floors. And today it is very popular to build such a structure from one floor using the maximum of modern technologies.

Fachwerk is a cellular structure. The technique of building half-timbered houses has nothing to do with the usual brick or concrete buildings. Such a structure is based on a frame made of wood from load-bearing vertical racks, horizontally installed beams and diagonal braces. The basis of the house is a wooden beam made of durable species, which is treated with special glue.

The technical features that a wooden beam should differ in are shown in the table.

During the construction of buildings, chip and cement slabs are very often used, which are produced by pressing Portland cement, wood chips and various stabilizers. This canvas has:

high density;
good heat and sound insulation features;
not afraid of the vagaries of the weather;
has an affordable price;
easy to install.

Today, thanks to technological progress, it has begun to erect half-timbered buildings from heat-saving glass panels. In this way, you can glaze up to 95% of the surfaces in the house.

As a rule, half-timbered buildings are complemented by a two or four-slope roof, which is installed quite low. Thanks to its location on hot days, you can hide under its shade from the scorching sun.

The main distinguishing feature that is unique to half-timbered houses is a wood frame that is not hidden under a layer of finishing material.

Advantages and disadvantages of buildings

How to build a half-timbered house with your own hands?

The building in half-timbered style cannot but amaze with its accuracy and grace. Another plus in their favor is that they can be built very quickly by putting all the necessary parts together, like a designer. Despite the ease of installation, such structures have high level strength and are distinguished by a long service life, as you can see if you look at the houses that were built about 3 centuries ago, but retained their original beauty.

It is also worth highlighting the following advantages:

due to the fact that an axial structure is being erected in buildings, there is no need to build load-bearing walls inside the building;
in half-timbered buildings, the main load falls on vertical racks and wood frames, which reduces the amount of pressure on the foundation;
such buildings do not shrink, so they can be erected on any basis, which, in turn, reduces the cost of construction;
due to the fact that the house is being built from individual parts(according to the principle of the constructor), it can be rebuilt in the shortest possible time, which brick or stone buildings cannot boast of.

There is nothing perfect in our life, and a half-timbered house is no exception. But thanks modern technologies still managed to cope with many problems.

For example, earlier half-timbered buildings were very inferior brick houses by the "ability" to keep warm. But today thanks to modern building materials with increased heat storage, this is no longer a problem.

How to decorate a half-timbered house?

Do-it-yourself half-timbered houses, really?

The basis of the half-timbered building is a special load-bearing frame, for which glued beams made of steel or reinforced concrete are used.

Previously, it was customary to fill the spaces between the bearing parts with adobe, but today they use for this purpose:

brickwork;
a natural stone;
foam blocks;
aerated concrete.

As a rule, various heaters are added to such materials.

But, this is not the whole list of materials from which you can see the design of the half-timbered building. Also widely used:

board material

To work, such plates can be cut with a grinder or a jigsaw, then pigmented in the desired shade with a water-based or oil paint.

The plates are fastened with screws, which are screwed between the frame parts.

Also as board material gypsum-fiber sheets with a high level of moisture resistance or lining can be used.

Plaster

This type of finish is most suitable for decorating buildings made of brick or blocks.

As a mixture, it is better to choose waterproof compounds that can cover walls several centimeters thick.

If you live in a region with harsh climatic conditions, building a house with glass walls is not very cost-effective. For this, other options have been developed that allow you to make the house the most favorable for living, thereby not violating its stylistic features.

As you can see, such an imitation of a half-timbered house will be cheap, but this makes its appearance and specifications not a bit hurt.

We build buildings in the style of half-timbered houses with our own hands

half-timbered house

If half-timbered buildings made an indelible impression on you, and you decide to build such a house for yourself with your own hands, get ready that this is absolutely not easy. Though experienced builders they assure of the speed of construction of such a building, they mean the assembly of the structure from already prepared parts, for which all elements were previously carefully designed by computer programs.

Such parts are connected using "thorn-groove" systems, which provide the structure with strength. But for quality performance do-it-yourself work, you must have at least some skills in carpentry.

Before you build a half-timbered building with your own hands, you need to consider the following points:

in order to properly build a building with your own hands, you need to build a lightweight foundation, because a half-timbered structure does not create a large load on the base, but distributes it between wooden beams frame;
it will be necessary to lay waterproofing on the foundation, then install a strapping from a bar and fix it with metal anchors;
then install a frame of glued beams;
as a heater, you can use both basalt wool and cellulose mats;
if a lot of walls in the house are made of glass, you can install a “warm floor” or an additional heating system near them;
to cover the roof, you can use ceramic or metal tiles, as well as sheet iron;
when all the work is completed, you can proceed to the external design.

To give the building completeness, color and half-timbered style, it must be plastered and painted with light colors, preferably in pastel colors.

The sight of pretty houses built using half-timbered technology is pleasing to the eye, makes you want to touch these beautiful buildings with your hands and settle in them. You can put such a beautiful house on your suburban area without any problems, for this you need to follow all the subtleties of half-timbered technology and choose high-quality materials for construction.

What is fachwerk

Translated from German, this is a panel in operation, i.e. it is a frame structure that was used in medieval architecture in Central and Northern Europe. Presumably, it arose as a result of the processing of the construction techniques of the ancient Romans.

Back in the first centuries of our era, the ancient Romans built military camps using the so-called Roman concrete. The Romans, during construction, wooden log cabins clogged with a mixture of cement and gravel, i.e. built wooden frame, then filled it with stone or brick with cement mortar, and vertical racks, struts, horizontal bars were not hidden inside, but brought to the surface of the wall.

The base of the frame was whitewashed with lime and chalk, while the frame itself remained dark, the natural color of wood. Thus, a peculiar pattern was created, with decorative motif, moreover, in the urban development of the 14-16th century in the cities of Germany and England, the fachwerk pattern is quite complex.

Foundation construction

Before the construction of the building, the site should be prepared, the soil should be examined. Any foundation used in construction is suitable for building a house using half-timbered technology. wooden houses.
But it must be borne in mind that a half-timbered building, like any wooden frame structure, quite light, so the supporting structures will not significantly put pressure on the foundation.

If this building is erected on a site where there are heaving soils, required solid foundation, excluding extrusion groundwater in winter time. In conclusion, we can say that the foundation should be chosen, first of all, focusing on the characteristics of the soil. It can be tape, slab, column or pile.

Frame installation

To isolate from moisture, a layer of waterproofing is laid over the foundation, then the first strapping crown is mounted from a beam with a section of 50x200 mm. The beam must first be treated with antiseptics. Details of the lower part of the frame are attached to the strapping crown.

The rigidity and strength of the frame of a half-timbered house is given by a variety of connections of parts, such as: a hidden spike, a dovetail, half a tree, wooden dowels are used when fixing the parts.
Many thousands of wooden houses in Europe, which have been standing for 300-500 years, were built in this way and this is the best proof of the reliability of this technology.

Dovetail mount

This the old fashioned way mounts wooden parts, a rather complex and time-consuming type of connection, it is often not necessary to use it, it is enough to fix the wooden elements at an interval of 3-4 meters to ensure the necessary rigidity of the structure. “ Dovetail” is used when connecting elements load-bearing structure in the most important places.

Main distinguishing features

Half-timbered houses have a rigid load-bearing frame of vertical racks, horizontal beams and braces (diagonal elements), they are the main distinctive feature fachwerk designs.

Braces give stability to frames. In order to hide the fasteners, the visible parts of the frame, not covered by the skin, are connected to each other in a groove and a spike.

Rack installation step

The installation step of the load-bearing racks depends on the requirements of the project, where door and window openings are taken into account, they can be different in width, which affects the distance between the racks, but not more than 3-4 meters.

Connection of floor beams and rafters

For floor beams and for rafters, an edged board of one section 50x200 mm is used, pre-treated with fire and bioprotective agents.

All elements of the wall frame, which will be hidden under the cladding, since they are not visible parts of the half-timbered structure, are mounted from a fire-retardant treated edged board section 45x145 mm.
At the end of the installation of the walls, they mount truss system hipped roof. The technology of building a house, until the walls are sewn up, differs little from the usual frame.

Installation of wall cladding elements

Modern technologies, when insulating walls, no longer use reeds and clay for these purposes, which used to fill the space between the supporting beams.

Currently used for this purpose modern heaters type of basalt wool, gas silicate blocks. home distinguishing feature half-timbered construction lies in the fact that the posts, beams and braces in the wall of the outer plane must remain visible.

DSP wall cladding

The outer walls of the house are sewn up with cement-bonded particle boards, after which they lay a windproof material, then a layer of insulation, such as basalt wool, is covered with a vapor barrier material, and then the wall is sewn up from the inside with the same slab for internal works, plasterboard or glass-magnesium sheets.

glass-magnesium sheet

Magnesium glass sheet (SML) is a new, high-quality building material, it can replace drywall, gypsum fiber sheet, asbestos cement boards and fiber cement panels.

LSU is not combustible and moisture resistant, in addition, it has good impact-resistant characteristics, like fiber cement panels, it is quite difficult to break through it.

Choice of roofing material

In modern construction of such houses, as roofing material choose a metal tile.

Fine finishing of external walls

Finished Wall panels they plaster and paint with white paint, the heads of the floor beams left visible (since the roof overhangs are not sewn up using this technology, this is also a distinctive feature of half-timbered architecture), as well as wooden elements the frame (uprights, beams and braces) is coated with a tinting impregnation for wood based on natural oils, preferably in dark shades.

Frame elements visually dissect the white walls and give the house a special expressiveness. Designers using different colors, from light brown to black, make very interesting design projects. The modern market presents a wide range plastic windows whose prices are not so great. Combination of plastic windows beautiful shape with a variety of colors, gives an individual look to the building.

Features of interior decoration

Ceiling beams, inside the house, also remain visible and act as elements of home decoration.