Frame houses: facade decoration in various styles
Technologies for the construction of frame houses have been used in our country for many years. This is not only about multi-story construction, where the building frame is mounted from prefabricated reinforced concrete.
With low-rise construction of houses, wooden frames are more often used. In this article we will tell you how to decorate the facade of a frame house so that it looks modern and stylish.
Consider also all the nuances of the finish, and related materials needed to do it yourself.
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Types of frame houses
Before discussing how to finish the facades of frame houses, you need to know what types of such structures exist. This is crucial when choosing facade materials.
Naturally, the technology of finishing works may vary. The most common are three structural types of frame houses: frame-rack, panel and frame-frame.
Frame-rack type house
So:
- Frame-rack-mount and rack-beam types are not very different from each other, so their finish can be considered in general. And the essence of such a finish is to fill the space between the racks with insulation, and decorate the walls outside and inside.
- Facade decoration The frame house is multi-layered. In the photo above, we presented a diagram in which the location of each layer is clearly visible.
And the first thing to do is to get the right insulation. - Since the width of the wooden pillar is 15 cm, the thickness of the insulating material must correspond to this size. The insulation should not be taken in rolls, but in the form of plates.
It can be various types of wool: mineral, stone, fiberglass. Penoizol, isolon, polystyrene foam are also used with the same success. - Lowest foam price. In addition, this is the easiest material, which is its undoubted advantage.
But there is a minus: of all types of insulation, polystyrene is the most combustible. You must know about it, and whether you use it or not is up to you.
- When the width of the heat-insulating plate is one or two centimeters greater than the distance between the racks, it is very convenient to mount it - the insulation does not fall out of the cells. From the inside, a vapor barrier film will be mounted on it, for example: “Isospan B”.
- If you purchase a more modern insulation with a foil surface, then it will need to be mounted with foil inside the house and a vapor barrier film will not be needed. Just over the insulation the crate from the rail 20 * 90mm will be packed.
- The same crate will be outside, but first waterproofing - it is also windproof. A thin roll membrane in this case would be an inappropriate option.
She will protect the house from moisture, but not from the wind. Exterior decoration of the frame house provides for the use of a three-layer diffusion membrane as a windproof layer.
To fix it, use counter rails 45 * 45mm, which are stuffed in the height of the racks. The outer crate will be mounted on the same rails.
When the filling of the “pie” is ready, it remains only to revet it with decorative material. And which ones - we'll talk a little later.
Finnish house
The concept of “panel house” is well known to us, especially in the northern regions. This is nothing like a Finnish house.
As a rule, this is a one-two-story building with a gable symmetrical roof.
Assembling a Finnish house from a bar
So:
- By and large - this is a cottage, built in various ways. Finnish houses can be constructed from glued beams, or mounted from ready-made panel boards.
All details of the house are made in a complete set: the frame, and the rafters, and the walls. - The least time for assembling a house is required precisely by panel structures, not more than one month. Wall panels come from the factory already filled with insulation and even electrical wiring, so that after the assembly of the house there is only a finish.
- Wall panels are made from OSB boards, which, despite their woody origin, have good strength, resistance to humidity, temperature changes, mold. Exterior decoration of a Finnish house assembled from panels can be reduced only to painting the walls.
- But how beautiful it looks if you combine painting with other types of finishes, for example: with lining or contrasting slats stuffed along the contours of panels. To finish the facade like that houses from timber, on its surface you need to mount facade panels with the appropriate texture.
In traditional Finnish houses, wood has always been used for the manufacture of structures and exterior wall decoration. But there are more and more finishing materials, and today it is not difficult to give the wooden house any appearance, including creating an imitation of masonry on the walls.
Frame technology
This type of frame is known worldwide as fachwerk (seeFinishing the facade of the house in the style of fachwerk or classic of the genre) It originated in the Middle Ages, and many European countries consider this architectural style to be their own.
Its essence boiled down to the fact that at first a frame was created, the basis of which is not racks, but frames with struts.
So:
- Their cavities were filled with improvised material: brick, clay, stone. Now many other materials have appeared that perfectly fulfill this role, for example: foam concrete blocks, magnesite and cement-bonded particle boards.
- Exterior decoration of a frame house, such as fachwerk, is incredibly original and never goes out of style. For its implementation does not need ultramodern finishing materials.
The beauty of the facade is achieved by a variety of geometric shapes formed by beams - plus a contrasting color.
- By the way, at the present time, not only wooden frames, but also metal ones are being created for half-timbered houses. This increases construction costs, but such a frame is more durable - and there is no arguing.
- The process of warming such a house is similar to the one we described above. Just do not use a wooden crate, but use windshield as glass-magnesite sheets, which are the basis for painting.
Thanks to the design features of the half-timbered houses, a similar style was born in the decor of building facades, which have a completely different design. Exterior decoration of frame houses in the style of fachwerk excites the minds and leaves no one indifferent.
You can make such a facade decoration on any building, only the role of a contrasting frame will be played by polyurethane beams mounted on the wall surface.
Finishing frame houses
If the supporting structures are made of wood, the exterior finish of the frame house with wood will be quite logical. And there are several options.
The facade can be sheathed with a lining board, the cross-section of which can, for example, simulate a beam, or a rounded log.
So:
- There is a kind of side-by-side panels made, as we are used to see, not of aluminum or vinyl, but of wood.The cost of such siding is higher than that of a lining board, but its surface does not need antiseptic or decorative processing.
Consequently, this work requires less time and supplies. - All the types of siding mentioned by us are currently widely used in the decoration of facades of various buildings, and not only frame ones. This is due to the ease of installation of panels, the affordable cost of the material, its good appearance and assortment.
Lining the walls is quite fast, watching a video on this topic will be enough to figure out what and how to do it.
- Finishing the frame house from the outside can be done with wooden facade panels. They are made from wood fiber, using polymer resins as a binder.
They give wood additional properties inherent in polymers. It is resistant to moisture and deformation, to temperature extremes and ultraviolet.
- Facade panels can also be in a completely different design, for example, metal. The basis for their production is galvanized aluminum sheet, the surface of which may have a polymer coating, some relief, or wood imitation.
- Exterior finish frame houses with facade panels - this is perhaps the easiest and fastest way to clad a building, even multi-story.
- Take, for example, fiber cement panels. They are made from dissolved pulp, cement and synthetic fiber. Fibropanels mounted on the facade of the house create a neat and attractive wall surface.
Moreover, you can get any desired imitation: even brickwork, even stone.
- The same can be said of thermal panels. The only difference is that they do not imitate natural materials, and their surface is lined with stone or clinker tiles in the factory.
All front panels are ideally joined together, and allow to qualitatively revet an arbitrarily large area. - By the way, if you want the masonry to be natural, nothing prevents you from facing the walls of the house with real brick. To do this, there is a hollow, lightweight brick, called facing.
- In the picture below, far from all the types and colors of such a brick. There are options, one side of which has chips that make a brick look like a stone.
The instructions found on the Internet pages will help you understand the nuances of brickwork.
- Facing brick can help you not only in the decoration of the facade, but also in decorating the walls of the house or in landscaping. And the facade of the house, lined with bricks, may look like in our example below.
- Considering various options for the design of the facade, you may have the following question: “How to finish the frame house from the outside so that it can be plastered?”. It is possible, but for the plaster layer you need a base on which you can fix the reinforcing mesh.
- Such a basis can be the same OSB-boards, five-layer plywood, or thin sheets of expanded polystyrene. The reinforcing mesh can be used metal, with small cells.
To plywood, or OSB plates, it is fixed with nails. It is more convenient to stick a fiberglass mesh onto the polystyrene surface. Well, then, plastering is performed in the same way as if it were a block, or brick house.
On this basis, it is possible to perform not only plastering, but also tile or stone fragmentary cladding. This may be needed when decorating the basement of the house, performing decorative panels on the walls.
As you can see, for finishing a frame house you can use all those materials that are used for buildings made of concrete and brick - it is only important to observe the production technology.
