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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...