How is the attic finished

Minimum color, nothing more, the style of the master is felt

The attic rooms of buildings, as a rule, are empty or serve as a haven for our smaller brothers. When choosing a specific design, and when equipping this additional area, you can arrange a workshop, a small living room or even an apartment.
The arrangement of the attic space will be cheaper than the extension of the new building and there is no need for the construction of new, precious plots of land.

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How to make a cold loft residential
- Attic insulation
- Attic apartment
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How to make a cold loft residential

Immediately focuses on the fact that a comfortable room can be obtained and made only on an area of sufficient size. We will talk about the cold space, since the insulated attic is a finished room.
Attic decoration refers to the main work, measurements are carried out, a thorough examination of the bearing coatings of the structure is carried out, the condition of the beams is determined, especially near the outer walls. Leaking water provokes their decay.
All rotten parts of the beams must be replaced, carefully examine the flooring, chimney and all other parts of the structures related to the work. The height of the roof space should not be less than 2.3 m (extreme case 2 m), the vertical wall of the inclined part of the ceiling - not less than 1.6 m (minimum size 1 m).

Attic insulation

Warming is made in two options:

The whole roof is insulated, which gives a significant increase in usable area.
The insulated room is built into the free space of the attic.

Each option has its advantages and disadvantages. If an additional area is obtained, then it looks a bit messy, and it is more difficult to bring it into proper form.
The built-in room "eats" a significant part of the usable area and it turns out small, but its solution is structurally simpler and more accurate.
An alternative solution to this problem is a combination of both options and attic insulation can be done with your own hands, especially since modern materials allow this:

The tree of structures to be insulated is treated with antiseptics and problem areas are repaired.
The integrity of the available waterproofing is checked, damaged places are repaired by repair tape.

Attention: When reconstructing the attic, one should not forget that the flooring is constantly exposed to atmospheric changes and the need for its repair increases, so you need to think over and provide access to it.

The space between the rafters is neatly filled with insulating material. With insufficient layer thickness, an additional layer is applied on top.
The joints of the insulation are overlapped and perpendicular to the "legs" of the rafters.
Ceilings are insulated with bulk material.
Laying the insulation layer is performed without dents, dips, blisters.
Particular attention is paid to the nodes connecting the roof to the walls. Insulation boards must reach the outer walls.
The next problem area of the attic relates to a bunch of roofs and windows. Warming window slope stacked at right angles to the plane of the window and goes on a slope.
The third problematic node is the intersection of ventilation and smoke exhaust channels. Thermal insulation of these places is carried out by non-combustible mineral wool, laid without voids and gaps.

Thermal insulation is not complete without a vapor barrier. The task of the material is to prevent the moisture of the insulation from being in the air with water in the form of steam.
The vapor barrier tapes are laid with a 100 mm overlap and secured with tape. The inner lining closes the laid layers of materials.

Caution: Mineral wool insulation, especially glass wool, causes itching and irritation on exposed skin. Use respiratory and eye protection when working.

So:

Thermal insulation serves as protection not only from the cold, but also from overheating in hot weather, so it is necessary to approach its calculations with all responsibility. The heat-insulating layer is mounted on the outside of the roof so that the air movement will weather the moisture generated by the condensation of steam on the underside of the roof.
Own attic room with a light partition and cornice also deserve their portion of insulation between them, so as not to get a "cold bridge".
The vapor barrier layer is selected from the purpose of the room. Kitchen or bathroom with a high moisture content requires an insulation layer, especially for roofs made of tiles or sheet steel that do not allow steam to pass through.
Provide air circulation, with a lack of natural ventilation, will help the electric fan.
Separate rooms in the attic are provided with longitudinal ventilation. To do this, ventilation grilles with shutters are installed that are closed for the winter period or gaps are left in the space between the lining of the rooms and the roof for air circulation.

Attic apartment

A lot of greenery, you need a lot of water

So:

The living room in the attic space is the presence of all communications below, their location, the capacity of the water supply, the condition of the pipes and the possibility of connecting to it. If the water pressure is already insufficient, then replacing them with a more powerful option will result in a pretty penny.
Planning an apartment in the attic is made taking into account the easy connection to the pipes on the lower floor. Bathrooms and toilets are located one above the other.
The gas pipes of old houses are usually not the right size and require replacement and modernization. It becomes possible to install a gas water heater, boiler for heating.

Attention: The lightest materials, which are mounted dry, are used to carry out designs so that the rafters do not bend from excessive loads.

The floor of the attic room is made easy, so the boardwalk, old flooring, cinder concrete is removed or loose slag is removed and the floor is laid on a light sound-insulating base.
In order not to burden the structure, the partitions are lightweight for placement on the beams. Practice has worked out the technology for manufacturing a frame from 5x5 cm or 7.5x7.5 cm blocks, fastened with spikes or lining to the bars fixed on the coating structure.
The dimensions of the plates determine the distance between the racks of the frame. Plates can be made of different materials, partitions from panels made in advance and nailed to the ceiling and floor are very practical.
Finishing the attic in the country does not require special devices when installing the ceiling, they are made of wood, light, simple.
Thermal insulation is placed on ceiling beams or on puffs. The upper side of the ceiling is covered with concrete or clay coating 3 cm thick, for fire safety.

Staircase to the room where the stars are visible.

Staircase (seeFinishing stairs: we choose for ourselves) the top floor is usually made of wood. The lack of space is compensated by the width and height of the steps, as well as the width of the march.
Heavy and bulky furniture in the attic does not fit, because it is impossible.

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When the truss trusses serve as supporting structures, the partitions are perfectly placed near them. The farm is sheathed with plates on one side, and on the other a bookshelf or shelf for collections, souvenirs.
The slanted farms covered with stain, varnish, paint do not spoil the view, you can see in the photo and video how their finish emphasizes the old days.
So:

If there is a door in the partition to move from room to room, steps are made above the puff of the truss with a step width in front of the door of at least 40 cm.
The interior of the room is architecturally expressive, the length of which is two steps of the farms. To tighten the farm in the middle, there is a shelving partition for books, a TV, and a bar with drinks.
You can attach two small ottomans or an ottoman in combination with a low cabinet or bookcase.
The room is illuminated through dormer windows, sloping windows in the roof plane, through windows cut into the pediment wall. Inclined windows are difficult to clean and poorly transmit light when swept with snow, they are difficult to curtain in the summer, so the room is gaining excess heat.
Dormers are placed above the windows of the lower floors, or in the center, or symmetrically with respect to the center, the instruction recommends not to violate the architecture of the building. By the way, it is the dormers that are the easiest to manufacture and can be installed directly on the rafters.

The finished room is finished without any restrictions. Putty, painting, wallpaper decoration, facing, the main thing is that the price comes up, then you can come up with a combination of all of the above.