Building and finishing materials, modern building technologies

Construction and repairs are constant purchases of materials and a choice of technologies: from the construction of the foundation to the final finishing of the premises, we are constantly choosing something, ordering, buying. Some building materials have not changed for years: crushed stone, sand, cement, wood, clay - all this is still familiar to our fathers and grandfathers. Ask them how to use them. But there are a lot of new materials that not all builders know about: they appear almost every day and often greatly facilitate and speed up the processes. For example, you know that today a house can be built using 20 technologies? There are only five old ones, the rest have all appeared in recent decades.

It is also very important to know how to properly use these building and finishing materials - both old and new. After all, their illiterate use can negate all their dignity, and sometimes bring harm. Some materials and technologies are so interconnected that they do not exist one without the other.

About what building materials there are - old and new, about their characteristics, qualities, characteristics of storage, use, application technology - we will try to tell about all these things objectively. Our site does not sell anything, therefore we have no reason to hide or embellish anything. If we know any negative points, we will definitely tell you about them. If we know something good, we will also pay your attention. And if, suddenly, they did not say about something, please write your opinion in the comments. Perhaps we missed an important point ...

Energy prices have been getting higher lately, and effective home insulation is one of the main challenges that homeowners have to solve. One of the latest materials to hit the market a few years ago is polyurethane foam. This is a coating that is applied as a continuous ...

When laying, you must constantly monitor the plane

Are there many finishing materials that are beautiful, not afraid of water, frost, heat, temperature changes, resistant to mechanical stress, not fading, easy to clean. I think not so much. One of them is porcelain stoneware. This combination of qualities contributes to high popularity ...

So you can store hand-made wood concrete blocks

Arbolit, as a building material, was known back in the days of the USSR, factories worked, and houses were built. After the collapse of the country, the technology was forgotten for some time, and a few years ago it was remembered again. The material turns out to be warm, light, durable, poorly conducts sounds, more ...

One of the lightweight concrete is polystyrene concrete

Saving energy is becoming a necessity, and one of the main costs in our climate is heating. In this regard, new materials are being developed that allow you to build warm houses and insulate existing ones. Lightweight concrete is becoming more and more popular. This is a whole group of materials with ...

End-to-end technique

Brick has existed for far from the first century. Houses were built from it in different countries and even parts of the world, having come up with many different methods and types of brickwork. And although there are a lot of secrets and features in the technology itself, you can understand everything. First you need ...

Block installation

Aerated concrete and gas silicate are essentially the same material - autoclaved aerated concrete. In Russia, blocks are mainly produced using a mixed binder of cement + lime. We practically do not produce purely silicate concrete. Speaking "gas silicate", as a rule, ...

We fold the walls

The decision to build a house from a bar is not made immediately and not suddenly. It's just that this technology, with a simpler assembly of walls, allows you to get excellent characteristics for housing: for the Moscow region, a 195 mm thick bar is enough. With such a thickness of the outer walls, there will be ...

The adobe house is 100% eco-friendly, warm and cheap. Fairy tale, not technology

Today, there are more than 20 technologies used to build private houses. It is impossible to say unequivocally that this technology is the best during construction, and this one is absolutely bad. They are all imperfect, they all have positive and negative points. To answer the question correctly ...

Assembled skeleton of a house from a special galvanized profile

The construction of buildings on a metal frame has been practiced for a long time, but mainly industrial and technical premises, shopping center buildings, etc. The use in private housing construction was limited by the high thermal conductivity of the metal: heating bills would be unrealistic. Manufacturers have solved the problem by making so-called thermal profiles, ...

This is what the frame looks like before sheathing. If the walls are not sheathed, small vibrations are felt when working on the rafter system. The outer sheathing makes the frame much more rigid

Prefabricated houses are attractive because with a ready-made foundation, the house itself can be installed very quickly. For example, building a frame house with your own hands, by the efforts of two people, is possible in a month without haste. And this is if inexperienced workers who only know how to participate in the construction ...

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